Simon Cowell’s partner Lauren Silverman rushes back to UK from USA after he was taken to hospital
SIMON Cowell’s girlfriend Lauren Silverman has just boarded a plane in New York as she makes a transatlantic dash to be by his side.
The Sun’s Bizarre column this afternoon told how Simon had been rushed to hospital after fainting then falling down the stairs at 6.45am.
The X Factor mogul was stretchered out of his mansion in a neck brace after an ambulance was called at 8am this morning.
He underwent tests at a London hospital while awake and in a stable condition.
We can now reveal Simon was alone in his mansion with three-year-old son Eric and a security guard when the accident took place.
He was seen giving photographers the thumbs-up as he returned home later today.
A source close to Cowell told us: “Lauren is about to fly out of New York on her own and is desperate to be by Simon’s side.
“Of course they have been in contact but she is distraught as you would expect – beyond upset and worried.
“She was woken with the news at 4am with a phone call and of course that’s everyone’s nightmare when you’re so many hours away.”
Lauren was in New York with her son Adam, who is 11, while Simon was staying in London to look after their three-year-old toddler Eric.
The 58-year-old is believed to have fainted and fallen down the stairs after fetching a cup of hot milk.
He had been to a Little Mix concert the night before and had woken up at 6.45am.
A source close to Cowell said: “It’s been a scary morning. It was very early and Simon was going down his stairs to get some hot milk because he couldn’t sleep.
“He fainted and is thought to have fallen down the stairs.
“An ambulance was called and he was stretchered out of the house in a neck brace surrounded by worried aides.”
The incident happened at 6.45am.
Simon is said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
He has experienced ill health this summer when he was forced to pull out of X Factor's London auditions with a mystery illness.
He also missed his own charity ball in June last year when he was struck down by flu.
Since his beloved mother Julie died aged 89 in July 2015, the music mogul has health tests twice a year to ensure his heart, lungs and blood are in good working order.
His father Eric died of a heart attacked aged 81 in 1999.
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But previously his workaholic lifestyle had caused him to collapse from nervous exhaustion.
In 2012, he admitted in he was “paralysed with tiredness” and his “immune system was failing” due to the stress of combining huge TV roles in the UK and the US.
His biographer Tom Bower revealed in his book Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life Of Simon Cowell, doctors warned Simon to quit smoking, stop taking health supplements and give his body a break.
It was also claimed Simon confided in fellow X Factor judge and close pal Louis Walsh, saying: “‘I desperately need peace. I’m craving normality. I’ve got to work out my demons and come out of it.
“I have to get back to where I was years ago. I have to stop reading texts at three in the morning and making calls later and later.”
Simon arrived home looking dazed and unsteady on his feet seven hours after paramedics took him to hospital.
Wearing a black jumper and Grey tracksuit trousers Cowell appeared to have a medical drip poking out from his clothes.
He was driven in the back of a black Range Rover flanked by three aides shortly after 3.30pm.
Cowell stepped out the back seat and waved at waiting journalists.
He said: “I’m feeling OK. I fainted. I just had a bit of concussion.” He was helped up the stairs to his home - which just seven hours earlier was carried out strapped to a spinal board.
Asked about whether he will appear on tonight’s X Factor, he replied: “I don’t know about tomorrow. But I’m feeling ok.”