Ex-girlfriend Sinitta Calls Simon Cowell a Cheater

British singer, Sinitta, dated American Idol judge, Simon Cowell, on and off for 16 years.  The Sun is reporting that she revealed that she met him when she was just 14 years old and he was interested in her friend.

She explained how things turned from an amicable relationship (he was initially her producer and chaperone) to a romantic one: “I had a huge crush on him, but he actually liked a friend of mine who was triple-timing him. One day he just said: ‘You know what I don’t really like her. It’s you I like.’ You know when you don’t kind of believe it, because we were such buddies? But it was fantastic, because I thought he was really cute.”

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Unfortunately, it wasn’t the easiest relationship since he seems to have had a wandering eye.  She says that they dated “on and off, because Simon was a horrible cheat! He was a horrible cheat. He was always disappearing and stuff, you know, and I’d have to work and he’d almost be laughing as he waved me off on a plane to Japan, like: ‘Great, I’m going to have a really good time while you’re away’.”

I know it’s hard to say what I would truly do in that situation but I would think that a mature woman might cut ties with a man who continues to cheat and refuses to settle down and marry (or commit) over 16 years.  To make matters worse, Sinitta said that he even tried to put the moves on her sister and best friend!  That’s unforgiveable!

She had one final thing to say about it: “crying over Simon Cowell – it’s so bad isn’t it? So bad. We’d break up because he’d do something awful and I’d go off and find somebody else. Then he’d see me with the somebody else and not like that and wait for it to fall apart.  He reckons that I broke his [heart], but he definitely broke mine.”

They must be friendly still, however, since he’s her children’s godfather!