about the fact that he stole his friend's wife.
The 54-year-old music mogul had an affair with Lauren Silverman while she was still married to his friend and property developer Andrew Silverman, reported Showbiz spy.
Cowell and Silverman are also a proud parent of a baby boy.
"I regret that part," he said.
"But then, of course, you have a baby, and you look at the baby and you kinda go 'this is what happened from it'," he said.
They are now in a committed relationship, raising their two-month-old son, Eric.
"It is not something I am proud of or wanted to happen in terms of hurting anyone. It just happened. You have to deal with it and man up to it. You have to accept the responsibility and the criticism.
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