Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has jumped to the defense of Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle after several British tabloids claimed that the 48-year-old lashed out at fans and police in a bitter curse-ridden tirade in a London hotel this week.

Piers is a former tabloid editor for News of The World and The Mirror himself. The tabloid editor became an international star when he won the first season Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. Despite his background as a gossipmonger, Piers is standing up for Susan.

“I picked up the papers this morning, and saw a load of headlines ridiculing Susan for a supposed incident where is said to have heard me tell Shaheen Jafagholi he had given the ‘best singing performance of the semi-finals’ and gone mad – [giving the middle finger] and shouting ‘**** off’, before storming off to her hotel bedroom,” Piers wrote in a statement on his Official Blog Thursday. “She was said to be angry because I, her ‘favourite judge’, had backed another contestant. Susan denies this happened, and I wasn’t there, so I don’t know what really went on. But I’ve seen the photos of her arguing with policemen after a furious altercation with a reporter who later asked her about it, and I’ve read the incredibly bitchy comments exploding all over various [Web sites] about her behaviour. And you know what? It made me very, very angry.”

“Susan Boyle is a very kind, generous-hearted, lady who has had a pretty tough life,” Piers continued. “She was deprived of oxygen during her birth, and that left her with ‘learning difficulties’, causing her to be called ‘Simple Susan’ at school,” he wrote. “She’s only been able to have one brief job in her life, but rather than feel sorry for herself she dedicated all her time to helping her [aging], ailing mother until she died two years ago. She’s never married, and memorably declared she’d ‘never even been kissed.’ But she’s always, according to people who knew her well, been a fun-loving, popular woman who would do anything to help others, including devoting considerable unpaid time and effort to her local church and community as a volunteer.”