When you’re 13-years-old, the last thing you’d want to do is tell the world that you’re a victim of bullying – but that’s what Andrew Johnston, a brave young boy featured on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in 2008, let the audience and panel of judges in front of him know right away.
In this shocking and heartwarming video, you’ll cry with thousands of people when you witness just how powerful perseverance can be. Life has been rough for Johnston – his dream has always been to sing on stage. “I get bullied a lot, like at school,” young Andrew tells Simon Cowell after he’s been asked if he gets support for his singing from friends. “I’ve been bullied all my life since I was six,” he said to interviewers, “because they didn’t like ‘that kind’ of music.”
Little did his bullies know, however, that he was about to shake the world.
When Andrew began to sing to the music, the entire theatre melted in disbelief. In the video, the young boy opened with an otherworldly voice that took even a seasoned veteran like Simon Cowell by surprise. Not a single audience member had dry eyes in the entire room.
It is truly a wonder why someone with so much talent has had it so rough until now.