Lauren Silverman Talks 2013 Pregnancy Scandal on Podcast

In a new podcast interview, Lauren Silverman has reflected on the intense personal and public turmoil she faced over a decade ago when she became pregnant with Simon Cowell's child while still married to her then-husband, Andrew Silverman. The 48-year-old socialite described the period surrounding her pregnancy announcement in 2013 as one of the hardest times of her life, marked by the end of her marriage and relentless media scrutiny.

Speaking on the "Happy Mum" podcast, Silverman said discovering she was pregnant with the couple's now 12-year-old son, Eric, was emotionally overwhelming. She described it as the definitive end of her marriage to businessman Andrew Silverman, to whom she had been married since 2003. While she stated she does not regret the outcome, she expressed a wish that it could have happened differently.

"I don't want to say regretful, because I don't regret anything," she said. "Do I wish it had happened a different way? Of course I do."

The affair and subsequent pregnancy became a major tabloid story after becoming public in July 2013. Silverman recalled feeling constantly judged, saying she was on the cover of every magazine and that the way people looked...