Susan Boyle Parents: Meet Bridget Boyle, Patrick Boyle

Susan Boyle is a Scottish singer who gained international fame after appearing on the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2009. She is the daughter of Bridget Boyle and Patrick Boyle

Her father, Patrick Boyle, was a miner and WWII veteran who also sang at the Bishop’s Blaize; her mother, Bridget, was a shorthand typist. Her parents were both born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, but had family connections to County Donegal in Ireland.

Susan Boyle was the youngest of four brothers and five sisters, born when her mother was 45 years old. She was raised believing that she had been deprived of oxygen for a brief period of time during a difficult birth, resulting in a learning disability. However, in 2012-13, she was told that she had been misdiagnosed and that she is on the Autism Spectrum with an “above average” IQ.

Her father passed away in the 1990s, and her eight siblings had all moved out. Boyle devoted her life to caring for her mother, who died in 2007 at the age of 91. A neighbour reported that when her mother Bridget Boyle died, she “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone”.