Kimberley Walsh believes Cheryl Cole encountered life-changing experience

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Kimberley says Cheryl always picks herself back up again.

Girls Aloud star, Kimberley Walsh - is fed up that singer and band mate Cheryl Cole is continually being underestimated.

Now magazine report Cheryl - who was ditched from X Factor USA back in May - kept hitting headlines and her sack was very much public knowledge - but regardless of what people say Kimberley thinks the Geordie beauty is doing just fine.

The 30-year-old star reveals: People really don't know Cheryl. Everybody talked about it like it was the most horrific thing, that it was this massive deal, but it wasn't like that for her.

She's very much: "That's life, some things don't work out and let's move on.It annoys me when people say this was her big American Dream.

She's not like that. She's very much a person who decides what she's doing there and then without any big premeditated plan.

Speaking of the 'Promise This' singer's malaria drama, Kimberley added: "what she went through when she was seriously ill was a life-changing experience."