Cheryl Cole: I'd be a mum if it wasn't for Will.I.Am

Posted Friday, June 08, 2012 by The Sun

Cheryl Cole: I'd be a mum if it wasn't for Will.I.Am
Plans change ... Cheryl Cole

CHERYL Cole believes she’d be a mum by now – if she hadn’t been persuaded to pursue a solo career by pal Will.I.Am.

The chart-topper insists she had intended to start a family with love-rat ex-husband Ashley Cole when Girls Aloud went on hiatus in 2009.

But, she says the Black Eyed Peas star convinced her to change her plans and record album 3 Words.

She said: “It was actually him that convinced me to do a solo record. I never would have done a solo record without him.

“At the time, I would have had a family. At the time I was still married! But it was actually Will saying to us, 'You know you're going to do a solo record, right?', and I was saying, 'I don't want to, not yet'.

“And he was like, 'I think you should. You need to'. He said, 'I'm excited, I want to be involved with it'. So he was involved from day one. I recorded my first ever solo song (Heartbreaker) with Will.”

The 28-year-old divorced Ashley in 2010, after he cheated on her.

She admits the Black Eyed Peas star was the only one who believed she could do a solo album as even her record label were sceptical about the idea.

She told Pop Justice: "I think the label were a bit dubious at the time when Will suggested it.

"I think they were like, 'Statistically it doesn't work'. I was married, I was sorted! It was Will who said, 'Come in and write'.”