United Kingdom, May 31 -- Simon Cowell felt "kind of lost" following the death of his parents.

The 65-year-old music mogul - who has 11-year-old son Eric with his fiancee Lauren Silverman - lost his dad in 1999 and then his mother in 2015, and admitted that becoming a father himself has "had a huge impact" because he was able to have that sort of love again.

He told PEOPLE: "[Fatherhood has] had a huge impact on me because I loved my parents so much, and once they left, I was kind of lost for a while, and then Eric kind of saved me.

"Because that love comes back a hundred times more powerful.

"I mean, it's extraordinary and it never goes.

"So I didn't expect that, and when it happened, it was like, 'Wow.' I mean, it's incredible."

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