Simon Cowell Reveals The Real Reason Behind Split From Little Mix

Simon Cowell has opened up about what led to him parting ways with Little Mix and has revealed that it was all down to a confrontation over a songwriting credit in ‘Woman Like Me’.

In an interview with The Sun, the music exec admitted that he’d had a falling out with the representatives for Modest Management and claimed that the team never wanted to record the song in the first place.

“It was just embarrassing but, funnily enough, I was more annoyed, again, not about me, but about the fact people who had worked so hard in my company were being misrepresented. Why do artists think they’re more important than staff members? They’re not. They’re the same.

“The irony was the record they were arguing about, which is Woman Like Me, they didn’t want to record. This was one of those ironic times that we were having a hit and nobody was happy.”

He added: “It wasn’t down to money. Basically, they said we’d done a terrible job. I had agreed not to talk about this publicly because I thought it was a private matter. I said, ‘We can’t work with the management, it’s as simple as that’.”

“Everyone’s like, ‘There must have been something massive and that’s why it collapsed’. Well, I can show you all the correspondence between me and the girls over the years, there’s never been an instance when we’ve fallen out. 

Finishing up that he wishes the band all the best, he added: “As I said in my email to them, I stand by the fact they are the hardest working bunch of girls I’ve ever worked with. They deserve everything they’ve got.”