She has battled her way back to health following a stroke two years ago.
But now Susan Boyle has disclosed she has turned to a disgraced alternative medicine guru who is banned from providing any health services in several Australian states.
The singer, 63, is experimenting with ‘natural health remedies’ from Barbara O’Neill, a self-styled ‘international speaker on natural healing’.
She started following Ms O’Neill’s advice after suffering a stroke in 2022.
The Britain’s Got Talent runner-up, from Blackburn, West Lothian, says she is not disregarding traditional medicines but is exploring supplementary treatments having discovered Ms O’Neill’s work online.
Susan Boyle sings on America’s Got Talent. The Scots star had a stroke two years ago
It comes after ‘wellness teacher’ Ms O’Neill, 71, was barred from providing health services in her native Australia after giving dubious advice to vulnerable people, including the use of bicarbonate soda as a cancer treatment.
Despite this, she has more than one million social media followers and travels the world giving lectures, including at the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire this month where she met Ms Boyle.
The I Dreamed a Dream singer told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Barbara is all about alternative medicine.
‘You need to broaden your mind. I don’t replace traditional medicines though, it’s in addition.
‘I know Barbara found trouble before but she was great at the event.
Barbara O’Neill is pictured with Susan Boyle at the Crieff Hydro event
‘She has helped a lot of people in the past. I’ve watched a lot of her stuff on YouTube and she is very good at what she does and it was lovely to meet her.’
The £99 per person event on September 10 included lectures on ‘DNA & The True Cause of Disease’ and ‘Heart Health & High Blood Pressure’.
Ms Boyle declined to divulge which of Ms O’Neill’s treatments she had tried but insisted she is now in good health as a result – and that could see her return to the stage on tour.
She said: ‘I am fit as a fiddle and ready to work. I want to get out there and do it again.’
Five years ago Ms O’Neill was banned from providing health services in four Australian states.
A health watchdog found she had given risky advice to chemotherapy patients, had told pregnant woman not to take antibiotics and promoted dangerous views about child nutrition and vaccinations.
Ms O’Neill said: ‘It is my role to get this message out to as many as possible. The ban has actually freed me.
‘It freed me to go places I don’t think I would have gone to.’
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