The 45-year-old singing star - who appears on the reality TV series alongside music mogul Simon Cowell - admits she would never have appeared on a talent show to launch her career.
She says, "I don't know that I'd have it in me to put myself out there like that. It's excruciating, soul destroying." - more on this story
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