Singer Susan Boyle has said she wants to adopt a child to give him/her the best start in life.
Boyle, 53, said she was subjected to a lot of taunts and cruelty in her childhood so wants to be a protector for a kid, reported the Daily Mirror.
Placed in a remedial class at school, Boyle would weep as other children bullied her for a condition she only recently discovered was Asperger's.
"I have so much love to give, I have so much to give someone that I want to adopt. I want to adopt a child who doesn't have much, someone who I can really give something to. It's a way of giving back for me.
"I have been considering it for about a year now, I love children, I always have but I couldn't have them. I want to give a youngster what I didn't have, and now I can do that," she said.
The singer has been in contact with social services and has set the adoption process in motion.
For the last couple of weeks it has got serious, I hope that they see what I can give. I know I'm not married and I'm over 50 but I am waiting to see. I know it is all a long process but I've never been more keen to do it. The rules can be quite strict but let's hope. We'll have to see what social services say but it would make me so happy," she added.
