But the affair continued for a while. Here’s a photo of Bonnie Tyler with Lionel Richie and Susan Boyle at the Vatican in 2019 for a concert for Pope Francis. | Source: Facebook/Bonnie Tyler
“I would organise the hotels. He asked me not to put his name on the room. He was very careful,” she said. “He’d rush off and I wanted him to stay with me. I’d be crazy at him as it was difficult.”
Robert Sullivan was allegedly very discreet. At this event, she performed during a concert at the Hipodromo de la Zarzuela as part of the Push Play Festival on July 30, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. | Source: Getty Images
She described him elsewhere as tender and romantic, noting that he always returned home at the exact time Tyler expected him, never altering his routine enough to raise suspicion.
Robert Sullivan allegedly did anything to avoid raising suspicion about his affair. Here’s a photo of Bonnie Tyler and some friends in 2021. | Source: Facebook/Bonnie Tyler
Text messages exchanged between the pair in 2014 and 2015 grew increasingly explicit, according to the report. But Pernot eventually said she began to feel strung along, since Sullivan wanted to continue the affair but would not leave his wife.
Despite the alleged affair, Robert Sullivan refused to leave his wife. Here’s a photo of Bonnie Tyler and him celebrating her birthday in 2021. | Source: Facebook/Bonnie Tyler
“I asked him if he regretted what we were doing but he said absolutely not,” she recalled. “He told me I was making him happy. I got the impression he was free with me. He kept telling me he loved me.”
She described the only time the two felt like a real couple as a trip to Majorca, where Sullivan traveled annually with friends. Still, Pernot said she knew in her heart the relationship could not last.
So the fan knew the affair would not last long. At this event, Bonnie Tyler attended the “25 Jahre Tanz der Vampire” photocall at Palladium Theater Stuttgart on October 12, 2022, in Stuttgart, Germany. | Source: Getty Images
“It was hurting too much and I was upset all the time. I thought if I told Bonnie everything it would be better.” She said she confessed everything to Tyler in January 2016, after the singer noticed she was “acting strange.”
According to her account, Sullivan tried to get ahead of the confession by telling Tyler that Pernot had been texting him unprompted and calling her “crazy,” which was followed by Tyler shouting at her directly.
The fan claimed Robert Sullivan tried to get ahead of the confession by calling her crazy. At this event, Bonnie Tyler posed with her MBE after being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on February 1, 2023, in Windsor, England. | Source: Getty Images
Pernot also said Sullivan later left her a voicemail lashing out further. “He called me a crazy girl and said I needed to go to a mental hospital,” she said. “He called me evil and that he understands why everybody hates me. When I told Bonnie it was a relief. I kept it a secret too long. But it hurts as I lost them.”
Reflecting on the fallout, Pernot shared the deep pain of losing both the singer and the man she loved because this had completely altered her life.
The fan was sad to lose both Bonnie Tyler and the man she cared for. At this event, the singer performed during the Philipp Plein Oscars Night Runway Show at Chateau Falconview on March 9, 2024, in Bel Air, California. | Source: Getty Images
She felt guilty because she could have stopped the situation at the very beginning. Instead, her powerful feelings for him took over, making it impossible to say no, and she confessed that she still loved him.
Even after the dust settled, she carried mixed feelings about the entire affair. While she mourned how everything fell apart, she did not regret meeting him because she had never experienced such strong feelings for anyone else.
