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"Simon Cowell allegedly suffered a breakdown earlier this summer. The music mogul struggled to cope with his many television commitments, according to an updated new chapter in Tom Bower&amp;#039;s book Sweet Revenge, The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell.   Cowell&amp;#039;s workload now includes The X Factor in the UK and US, Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent and America&amp;#039;s Got Talent. Due to his manic lifestyle, Cowell reportedly had to step away from some of the audition process for The X Factor in the US as it was turning him into a &amp;quot;weird vampire&amp;quot;. Bower claimed that Cowell confides in his good friend and colleague Louis Walsh.  He allegedly told Walsh: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want any more tablets and pills. I&amp;#039;m cutting out the lot, including cigarettes. &amp;quot;I desperately need peace. I&amp;#039;m craving normality. I&amp;#039;ve got to work out my demons and come out of it. &amp;quot;I have to get back to where I was years ago. I had to stop reading texts at three in the morning and making calls later and later. I wanted peace.&amp;quot; The 52-year-old also reportedly revealed that the constant flying between the UK and US added to his troubles. He said: &amp;quot;My life was like a night shift. I&amp;#039;d forgotten the sensation of the morning.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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