Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has admitted that she was tormented by her teachers as a child and was a victim of their violence every day.

In an interview with The Mirror Susan admitted”You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day… ‘Will you shut up, Susan!’ – whack!”

She continued: “I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.”

She added: “There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.”

“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.”

Susan will be performing her new single ‘Wild Horses’ on this weekend’s X Factor show.