The 49-year-old singer says she briefly dated John when she was 30 but her father thought she was not mature enough to get involved and put a stop to it. Boyle still regrets it, Contactmusic reported. Boyle, who famously declared on the show that she had never been kissed, says the relationship was "chaste".
"In my late 20s, I had a boyfriend for seven weeks. He was called John. I met him at a wedding and it was the first time I was involved with anyone, because I was always frightened of guys, but he was very kind.
"One day I was upstairs when the phone rang. My dad got to it first. 'She doesn't want to talk to you,' he said and put down the receiver. 'Who was that?' I asked him. 'You're no ready for a boyfriend, hen!' said my dad," Boyle recalls in her forthcoming book 'The Woman I Was Born To Be'.
Despite her unhappiness, the 'Wild Horses' hitmaker understands the action taken by her father. "I suppose dad was right that I wasn't mature enough for a relationship. He just wanted to protect me from getting hurt, but it did hurt when we stopped seeing each other," Boyle said.