BRITAIN’S Got Talent contestant Stacey Leadbeatter shared her devastating miscarriage heartbreak before stunning the judges with her powerful performance.
The supermarket worker, whose emotional audition captivated the nation, bravely opened up about her loss in a heartfelt TikTok post.
Stacey, 29, shared ultrasound images and a positive pregnancy test alongside her story.
Speaking about her miscarriage, Stacey penned: “My heart is broken. The beginning of August we unexpectedly found out that we were expecting.
“The end of August we saw your little heart ticking away for the first time.
“September we saw that you had grown and saw your little heart beating away again.
“I finally started to relax. Finally started to become excited. Finally thought maybe this is it.”
But in a tragic turn, Stacey revealed the devastating moment she learned her baby had passed away.
She said: “Fast forward to Thursday at a private scan to find out that your heart had stopped beating and then today to be confirmed that you had stopped growing.
“The hard part isn’t over as you’re still in mummy’s tummy.
“Our perfect little squish. I love you so much. I’m sorry it wasn’t you.”
Despite her grief, Stacey took to the BGT stage and delivered a stunning performance that moved the judges to tears, with Simon Cowell branding her “the new Susan Boyle” for her raw talent and emotional depth.
The singer, who also has a young daughter, took to the stage with an effortless rendition of Snow Patrol’s hit track Run.
She blew the audience away with her audition despite also battling a health condition that fans didn’t know about.
Stacey revealed she had to retrain her voice as a result of having a speech impediment.
Stacey admitted it had been a “extremely hard” journey to find her voice again.
She said: “I have a video of me singing from four or five years ago and you couldn’t actually understand properly what I was singing due to the severity of speech impediments.
“So during lockdown I used to sit through like adult speech therapy sessions on YouTube and then I’d introduced it into my singing.”
Stacey said she has to regularly do exercises a few times a week, otherwise she will revert back to how she was.
The mum-of-one admitted she was bullied at school because of her speech problems.
She said: “In high school I used to stutter a bit and people would mimic me.
“Children unfortunately sometimes can be a bit harsh and I wasn’t the popular girl at school.”
With the audience practically demanding a judge press the Golden Buzzer for her, KSI decided to give in and reward the mum-of-one, taking her straight through to the semi-finals.
