Normally after being insulted by Simon, most contestants run off the stage and cry, or they lash back at him. The Mirror reports that one contestant took a different approach.
46-year-old Jacqui Gray’s performance on X Factor was greeted by Simon’s comments of:
“You have a very odd-sounding voice.
“Something happens to your throat when you sing. It is quite raspy.
“It sounds as if you have someone else in there, like you were choking on something.”
To which Sharon added she should “get it checked out.”
“I was diagnosed with bronchiectasis and told if I had not got it seen to, it could have killed me,” Gray said. “I want to thank them both. I may not have got through X Factor but they gave me something much more important than that… they really did save my life.”