Simon Cowell breaks silence on Natalia Kills drama: 'It was hateful'

Brit television boss Simon Cowell has finally addressed the messy dramz that unfolded on X Factor New Zealand last month.

In mid-March, Natalia Kills launched an attack on contestant, Joe Irvine for wearing a suit, saying he was stealing her husband, Willy Moon's style. Check it above.

Now X Factor's head honcho, Simon has said: "It was hateful. She sounded mad... It didn't even make sense."

About time, Simon. It's only taken you a month to acknowledge the situation!

He said the couple, who were both sacked over the incident and have since left NZ, should have apologised immediately.

"Where they c***ed up was that they didn't apologise straight away," he told Weekend magazine in the UK.

"If they'd both been genuinely sorry and called me, and apologised to the guy and his family, who knows what could have happened?"