Cheryl Cole would like to be friends with ex-hubby Ashley

LONDON - X Factor judge Cheryl Cole says she would like to remain friends with her ex-husband Ashley.

“We’ve been divorced. That’s a pretty big ending. Maybe we can be friends… one day,” the Scotsman quoted her as saying.

Cole said she felt “embarrassed” dealing with reports of her husband’s infidelity while in the media spotlight.

“I’m human. I’m still a person, you know. I know to a lot of people the headlines and the stories they read are like some sick entertainment or soap opera, but it’s my life and I’m really dealing with it, and it’s really happening. It’s my real life. Of course I was embarrassed,” she said.

Cole said she had come to “hate this year” after enduring the breakdown of her relationship and battling malaria.

“I had no liver function, no kidney function, I was swollen with the fluid, I had no oxygen in my blood, she said.

“You know how sometimes you feel ill and say: ‘I feel like I’m dying?’ Well I actually felt like I was dying. I asked the nurse outright, was I going to die? She said: ‘There’s a possibility,’” she added. (ANI)