Simon Cowell shows the injury suffered falling off his bicycle last week as he walks his partner, Lauren Silverman on Wednesday
(Picture: PA)Simon Cowell has broken his silence after his second electric bike accident.
The 62-year-old music mogul was rushed to hospital after falling off an electric bike - for the second time in 18 months.
Now the TV boss has spoken out after he was seen leaving his London home with his broken arm in a cast for the first time on Wednesday since the crash.
On his walk with his fiancée Lauren Silverman, Simon told MailOnline: “I’m OK [after the crash]. I’m feeling much better thank you. It happened just round the corner.”
He admitted: “I’m a bit of a nutter. I’ll definitely wear a helmet next time.”
He was reportedly flung over his handlebars at 20mph close to his west London home — leaving him bloody, bruised and with a broken arm.
A source told The Sun: “Simon is lucky to be alive. He was pedalling along, with his electric motor on, when the wheels suddenly went from under him after hitting a wet patch.
“He slipped and went flying over the handlebars into the middle of the road.”
The source added the bloodied face of Cowell looked like something from the Phantom of the Opera as he was helped by three bystanders.
The Britain’s Got Talent supremo will have to wear a cast for filming the latest series of the reality show.
His son Eric, seven, has already drawn pictures of their dogs Squiddly and Diddly on the cast as Cowell emerged from hospital on Tuesday night.
The crash came just 18 months after Cowell broke his back riding another e-Bike in Malibu in August 2020.
He underwent six hours of surgery – which involved having a metal rod put in his back.
The music mogul admitted he “couldn’t have gotten through” the trauma without then girlfriend Silverman and son Eric, who, Cowell said, called him “iron man” when he first saw his father with metal rods in his spine following surgery.
He has reportedly promised his new fiancée Lauren Silverman, 44, to wear a helmet from now on.
