Lauren Silverman has revealed that learning of her pregnancy with her son Eric with Simon Cowell was the ‘hardest’ time of her life after falling pregnant while still married to her ex-husband.
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Lauren Silverman has detailed what it was really like for her when she discovered that she was pregnant with Simon Cowell’s child, while still married to her ex-husband Andrew Silverman.
The 48-year-old sociality appeared on Giovanna Fletcher’s podcast, Happy Mum, where she opened up about it being one of the “hardest times of her life” and the news hitting the press rather quickly. Giovanna, 41, asked: “So what was it like finding out you were pregnant with Eric?”
“There are so many emotions that went with that because it was like, the end of my marriage,” said Lauren. “It was one of the hardest times of my life and it was just, the way that people would look at me. I was on the cover of every magazine and there were news stories about it because… Simon being Simon… and it was just awful.”
Simon and Lauren have now been together for years(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Sim)
In another segment of the interview she appeared to allude to the moment she told Simon she was pregnant, and revealed her inner monologue as she thought about how he could have no idea what was in store.
“Simon was so emotional, and I just remember thinking in that moment “god your life is about to change and you have no idea what’s about to happen to you
“There’s no way he could have known because he was somebody who basically had everything under control and he had his ways about him and I think becoming a father completely changed his life.”
The couple had their son Eric on Valentine’s Day in 2014, meaning he is now 12. Lauren is also mother to a son named Adam, 20, with her first husband Andrew.
In 2013, Simon said of the affair that he was sad to have betrayed a friend, but proud to be having his son Eric: “I let down a friend and I feel bad about that. But the good thing is I’m having a baby and never thought I would.’
Speaking to the New York Observer in 2014, Lauren’s ex Andrew, the real-estate entrepreneur said that it was a “shocking” time of his life: “I am a regular person, not a tabloid thing. It was a fascinating experience, unexpected and shocking.
“Being in the public spotlight is not something I envy. It’s never been my way. I learned a lot about myself . . . the importance of family. My focus has been on my son throughout the whole ordeal.
I the final clips of the interview, Lauren added that she was “intentional” about keeping herself private, and joked that people probably have never heard her speak, despite being in the public eye for the past 12 years.
