“He Can’t Live Without It”: Simon Cowell Tearfully Reveals Son Eric’s Irreplaceable Treasure
Music mogul Simon Cowell has shared a rare glimpse inside his family life with his fiancée Lauren Silverman and their ten-year-old son, Eric.
The BGT judge opened up about his private life during a recent appearance on Steven Bartlett’s hit podcast titled The Diary of a CEO.
During a poignant discussion about Simon’s parents, the 64-year-old TV star revealed how Eric has grown an attachment to a brown blanket that was gifted to him by Simon’s late mother who suffered from dementia. Take a look in the video below…
Visibly moved by the topic, an emotional Simon said: “My mum, she started to get dementia, but fortunately she saw Eric. She really wanted me to have a kid. And she bought him this brown blanket, and he still has it. Literally, everything is about the brown blanket.”
“You know, ‘Where’s my brown blanket?’, and he said to me, when he was about two or three after she passed away… He looked up at the sky one night and he said ‘I’m thinking about grandpa Eric and Julie.’
“And it was just the way he said it, it was like, gosh, ‘Why would you say that now’, and that’s when I genuinely really started to believe they are still somehow with us… It’s not a total loss.”
The father-of-one has a very close bond with his son and has previously been open about how much Eric’s arrival has impacted his life.
Speaking in 2022, Simon shared: “After I lost my parents, I genuinely felt… I would never feel that kind of love for anyone ever again. I thought that was it… Until I saw the scan of him for the first time.
