Lucy Spraggan has revealed Simon Cowell will walk her down the aisle when she marries her fiancée Emilia Smith. The singer added that she has completely forgiven the TV mogul for how she was treated on X Factor after she was raped by a hotel porter.
Lucy, 32, revealed last year that she left the show following the attack in the hotel room where she was staying after partying with Rylan Clark during the show’s production in 2012.
And speaking to Fabulous Magazine, Lucy said Simon who was the first to apologise, previously admitting his call ‘just made things so much better for me.’ Lucy and her girlfriend Emilia, 33, got engaged in March, just one month into their relationship after a friendship of 10 years deepened.
Revealing how she asked Simon the all important question, she said: ‘We’d been staying at Simon and Lauren’s house for a few days. One morning, Simon was about to get in the sea and I said: “Will you give me away?” and he replied: “Yeah!” He went off for a swim and when he came back, he said: “I’d absolutely love to. It would be an honour.”
Lucy, who is estranged from her birth father, now has a great relationship with the 64-year-old since he reached out and apologised for how she was treated on the ITV show back in 2012.
She added: ‘His apology healed a part of my being that I didn’t know needed healing.’ Lucy explained that she regularly visits Simon and his girlfriend Lauren Silverman’s house in Los Angeles, after recently attending a murder mystery party with the star, and even described them as he ‘surrogate parents’.
Gushing over her love for the couple and their son Eric, she said: ‘We’re all great friends. I care about them, they care about me, and Simon really cares about my life, my wellness and my music. Simon and Lauren feel like surrogate parents. They’re always looking out for me.’
The singer also admitted she has built bridges with ITV after the channel’s director Kevin Lygo invited her for a meeting to discuss the past and how things can change going into the future. Meanwhile Lucy is preparing for her wedding to Emilia after she popped the question last week. The pair met through mutual friends back in 2013, however only recently allowed the friendship to blossom into a romance.