Simon Cowell "didn't realise how unfit he was" before he crashed his e-bike.

The 63-year-old music mogul broke his back when he fell off his electronic bicycle and was bedbound for a month as a result of the smash in 2020. Looking back, he said the accident "happened for a reason". 

Speaking on Today on Wednesday (May 17), Cowell said: "It was painful, it wasn’t great. However, I was so unfit before the accident.

"I didn’t know how unfit I was until I had to do all this stuff afterwards, And I’m like, ‘My God.’ Things like that, I believe, happened for a reason! "I’m still going to stay on my bike, I'm obsessed with those things!"

The forme American Idol judge — who has lost more than 18kg since the incident and has cut down on alcohol — recently admitted that he was "so close" to spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair following the smash and that the accident had actually given him a "positive outlook" on life.

He told The Sun last month: "I was so close to living the rest of my life in a wheelchair, it gives you a completely different outlook on life. In a positive way. It hurt — trust me — when it ­happened, but good things happened off the back of it.

"If I had to go through this all over again I actually would do it, because I think breaking my back was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I didn’t know really how unfit I was until I had to start doing all th exercises. But I feel better today than I did three years ago when it happened."

Cowell returns to judge America's Got Talent, Season 18, premiering in the US on May 30. — BANG SHOWBIZ

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