Simon Cowell has said that errors were made in the handling of Susan Boyle's career. "Looking back on it all, it has become clear to me that we didn't handle the situation with Susan as well as we could have," Cowell wrote in the Daily Mail. "Yet, to be honest, I don't know that I could have done it any differently. I certainly didn't think, 'here comes a phenomenon who is going to become the most famous woman in the world, I wonder if she can mentally cope with it?' I thought she looked a bit eccentric and certainly a character, but that was all. Then, several weeks later, after Susan had become a global sensation, we were on a satellite link to the Oprah show together. It had become clear that Susan was finding the experience difficult to cope with." 
