Is it time for Cher to be removed from the competition for he own mental health?
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After having seen and read all the news, gossip and headlines about this girl, I really worry for her.
Now I dont particularly like her, and feel she comes across as very arrogant and rude, but the fact that she needs a 24 hr councellor and all these new tantrums and fits, suggests that she really is not ready for this.
She cant cope with this - how would she cope living the life of a popstar, 24/7 without the back up, the support and the protection that the Xfactor offers.
I feel that for her own health she needs to be removed from the competition and be allowed to grow up away from the cameras.
She is still only a child, and I think this is where we can see that sometimes age limits are important. She is clearly NOT ready for this. Emotionally or physically. She does not have the maturity needed to deal with this situation.
Cowell and co have a responsibility to her - they need to do the right thing and pull her otherwise she may be in serious trouble.
Now I dont particularly like her, and feel she comes across as very arrogant and rude, but the fact that she needs a 24 hr councellor and all these new tantrums and fits, suggests that she really is not ready for this.
She cant cope with this - how would she cope living the life of a popstar, 24/7 without the back up, the support and the protection that the Xfactor offers.
I feel that for her own health she needs to be removed from the competition and be allowed to grow up away from the cameras.
She is still only a child, and I think this is where we can see that sometimes age limits are important. She is clearly NOT ready for this. Emotionally or physically. She does not have the maturity needed to deal with this situation.
Cowell and co have a responsibility to her - they need to do the right thing and pull her otherwise she may be in serious trouble.
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That said, my own perception of Cher is that she is a highly strung person to start with and being under the sort of pressure that she is as part of the show would be concerning.
However, she is close to her family it would seem and I would think that the show's production team would be compelled to look after their contestants' physical and emotional welfare so I am hopeful that one or other would act if it was necessary.
Of course, I could be completely naive as well. I hope not.
But it must be exceptionally tough for a 17 year old. I could never have coped with it. I do feel for her, as for the others.
Cher has shown that she is extremely fit. She did 2 uptempo performances that required a lot of endurance. She did them both without running out of air and was still on point. Very few contestants could have done what she did with Girlfriend or Walk this way without sounding like they ran a marathon. Paije easily comes to mind of how out of breath he sounded. The girl is extremely healthy. Not her fault she has a small frame. It's genetic.
After all the hard work and all the weeks of fighting how can you have the heart to say they should remove her? It's a mad world indeed...
All these hate threads can't possibly help her mental state of course we could all have been fed a load of lies!! and there is absolutely nothing wrong with her!
But to be removed from the competetion!! I don't think so!
Perhaps there's nothing wrong with her now, but because of the hype and attention she has been given and factoring in her vulnerability (her age, mainly) means that she could be close to breakdown when she falls flat on her face.
The entertainment industry is a harsh place. Look at how messed up some young celebrities become.
Both her and Aiden were completely and utterly gutted that they were in the bottom 2. They were over hyped and when the harshness of reality hit them, they cried (Aiden was close to bursting when he was sent home).
They'll never remove anyone unless it was seriously affecting their health, but it's what comes after which will get them.
I mean, how can you go back to a day job when you've been hyped up to be the biggest thing since The Beatles?
We only know what we are being told about her. I am sceptical about it to be honest. It is like all of the Wagner stories. It just helps to keep her and the show in the public eye.
As has been mentioned earlier in this thread, they hype her up so much, fill her head with false promises and then wonder why a kid self-destructs occasionally when things don't go perfectly.
I agree, she is not ready for this, but not necessarily for a singing career, she is not ready to be in the boiler of Syco's artist-spewing-machine that is x-factory.
I don't think she is mentally unstable, just a bit prone to tantrums when things get stressful.
Right from the start she has been told how brilliant and 'current' she is. I am sure in her own head she had the whole competition in the bag. She will have been told to ignore the negative press and that people love her.
To then come in the bottom two must have been devastating. No matter how you wrap it up nicely, how many buttons and bows you attach, bottom two means people were not voting for you. Cher must have believed she had loads of fans and there was no way she was in any danger no matter if she gave a 'dodgy' performance one week. And that is without hearing the booing.
Not only has she now come down to earth with a bump, it must be harder to read the negative press knowing she is not as popular as she has been made out to be. Teenage girls are drama queens as it is! A broken nail is enough for a tantrum, never mind the realisation you are not as popular as you have been told you are.
I hope she is getting support. If the story is true I am sure Rebecca does not mind Cheryl spending time reassuring Cher, after all she has been a teenage girl herself!