Lauren Silverman Speaks out on Her pregnancy following an affair with her husband's friend Simon Cowell 12 years ago.

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Lauren Silverman has recalled finding out she was pregnant with son Eric following an affair with her husband's friend Simon Cowell 12 years ago. 

 

Speaking on Giovanna Fletcher's podcast, Happy Mum, Lauren, 48, said it was the hardest time of her life and she was understandably battling mixed emotions.

 

Giovanna, 41, asked: 'So what was it like finding out you were pregnant with Eric?' 

 

Lauren, who now goes by the name Lauren Cowell, said: 'There are so many emotions that went with that because it was like, the end of my marriage. 

 

'It was one of the hardest times of my life and it was just, the way that people would look at me. I was on the cover of every magazine and there were news stories about it because... Simon being Simon... and it was just awful.

 

'That was really the pivotal moment for me when I stopped drinking [recently] that I was able to really look within and say "OK, this is how I feel and it's OK to feel whatever those things are and with that, comes a real sense of freedom and independence".  

 

'I can't explain it, it's like having a breakthrough, a fog lifted and that was such a huge moment for me.'

 

Lauren and Simon's affair was rumoured to have started when he was on holiday with her and her husband of ten years, Andrew Silverman, 49, in Barbados.

 

She fell pregnant with Eric - she was already mother to son Adam who is now aged 20. 

 

Andrew filed for divorce and cited adultery as the cause for separation and Lauren and Simon became a couple, getting engaged in December 2021.

 

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