Simon Cowell has called in a "house healer" to improve the energy

The music mogul decided to rid his Los Angeles mansion of negative energy after a friend recommended he try out the strange treatment and Simon is excited about seeing the results.

He wrote on twitter: "Hello. I had someone heal my house. Strange but great.

"The healer brings in good energy. Someone told me about it. It takes a couple of days."

It was recently revealed that Simon suffered a breakdown earlier this summer as the strains of managing his working life - which includes a portfolio of shows including `The X Factor` in the UK and US, `Britain`s Got Talent` and `America`s Got Talent` - became too much for him.

Simon reportedly had to take a step back from auditions for this year`s `X Factor` in the US after he feared his lifestyle was making him into a "weird vampire."

In an updated new chapter of his book, `Sweet Revenge , The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell`, Tom Bower says the TV star told his close friend and `X Factor` colleague Louis Walsh: "I don`t want any more tablets and pills. I`m cutting out the lot, including cigarettes.

"I desperately need peace. I`m craving normality. I`ve got to work out my demons and come out of it.

"I have to get back to where I was years ago. I had to stop reading texts at three in the morning and making calls later and later. I wanted peace."

Simon, 52, later added to friends that the pressures of constantly flying between the US and the UK were getting too much for him, saying: "My life was like a night shift. I`d forgotten the sensation of the morning."

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