NI teen’s emotional X Factor performance moves Ayda to reveal own break-up agony
A TEENAGER from Northern Ireland moved Ayda Field Williams last night to reveal how husband Robbie Williams broke her heart by breaking up with her three times before the couple got married and had children.
She spoke about the devastation she felt while listening to 18-year-old Chloe Jane McAllister, from Limavady, sing Jessie Ware’s Say You Love Me.
She said: “Rob put me through some, Rob dumped me three times. What a bad man, I know we’re all thinking it.”
After watching her performance, Williams added: “I thought that was amazing and I felt the heartbreak.
“In fact, I felt it so much that Rob will be sleeping on the couch tonight because it made me remember what an awful human he was to me.”
Williams also said the performance stirred up strong emotions for him, telling the teenager: “I’ve got a daughter and her name is Theodora Rose Williams and she’s five years old and she is my life, and I go to piano lesof sons with her every Friday, and I was thinking about you being that same person and learning your craft.
“I want to show the person who means the most to me in the world exactly what they can achieve when they put their mind to it and they practise, because you’re the person I want my daughter to be like.”
The couple celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary in August, and also have a son Charlton.
Earlier this month they revealed they have welcomed a third child, a daughter given birth via surrogate, named Coco.
Later, Robbie Williams revealed he has a significant bet with Louis Tomlinson on whose category will perform better on The X Factor.
The judges have said they are both backing their contestants to win on the competition show after they learned who they will be mentoring.
Williams, who will be in charge of the groups, told his hopefuls: “I have got quite a bit money with Louis Tomlinson, that he thinks that his acts are going to get further than my acts. That’s not going to happen.”
The One Direction star will mentor the boys, while Williams’s wife will mentor the overs and Simon Cowell will mentor the girls.
After meeting her group, Field Williams told them: “What the boys don’t know is I am the most competitive member on that panel”, while Cowell said: “This is the best girls category we’ve had for a long, long time.”