Lewis Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger dated for a total of 8 years. Their relationship started in 2007 and ended in the summer of 2015. The couple had a great thing going. We even saw Scherzinger at Hamilton’s maiden title win celebration. However, it was eventually cut short because of their busy schedules.

But now it seemed that the breakup may not have been an amicable one. In 2016, Scherzinger dedicated a song to her world champion ex on X-Factor. She hinted the song may be about Hamilton with her fellow judge Simon Cowell jumping in for his take.

“This song is about running away from bad things in your life,” mentioned Scherzinger.

“Why did this song make me think of Lewis Hamilton? It just came into my head listening to it. Run away, Nicole, run away fast,” expressed Cowell.

To this, the singer replied,” Yes, let’s do that. Let’s dedicate those lyrics and that song to Lewis as well, shall we?”

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Hamilton had a very logical and dignified response as to why his relationship with the PussyCat Dolls singer ended.

Lewis Hamilton reveals the reason behind his split with Nicole Scherzinger

The Mercedes driver cited that their busy schedules might be the reason behind his split from the singer. But he also revealed why it is difficult for him to maintain a relationship while racing in F1.

“It may be slightly different in that we are traveling as much as we are, and you are just away for crazy amounts of time.”

“So that’s probably an additional weight that makes it really, really tough to hold down a good relationship, and if things aren’t quite perfect,” said the 7-time world champion.

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