DALTON Harris is the superstar who's entranced the nation and was crowned winner of X Factor on Sunday night.

But one woman who wasn't there in the audience to see his incredible victory was his mother, Sylvia.

Dalton and Louis celebrate him winning the final of The X-Factor Credit: Rex Features And it's little wonder why. During his time on the show, he revealed he was raised in poverty with "no love or support" and being so badly beaten that he still has scars.

In one particularly shocking incident he recalled being punched so hard by a guy dating his mum he crashed through a window.

His mother reportedly took the side of her boyfriend over her child.

He also said he was homeless for a time as a child.

While his mum said she "maybe did overdo" the beatings - she has disputed claims Dalton was ever homeless. She spoke to Sun Online from her home in Jamaica to give her side of the story... X Factor winner Dalton Harris was left homeless after blowing Jamaican talent show money at age 16 Dalton with his siblings and mum. From left to right, Davian Brown, Ronald Robinson, Sylvia Campbell, Dalton Harris and Toby-Ann Sharpe Credit: Sylvia Campbell The truth about the beatings As the crickets chirp amongst the bushes and mosquitoes circle the open barrel of sitting water used for washing clothes, 52 year-old Sylvia Campbell sits on her porch just days after Dalton beat Scarlett Lee and Anthony Russell to the X Factor title. It would be easy to think the lines on Sylvia’s face are simply from age and a lifetime of squinting in the sun - but the truth is she hasn’t spoken to her son since October and the worry lines chart a turbulent relationship with her talented son, with accusations slung in both directions. Dalton with his sisters, Malina Campbell (sitting) and Crystal Harris (standing) Credit: Sylvia Campbell While Sylvia says her community knows how hard she has tried with her son, the X Factor winner has claimed otherwise. He's said that he had six siblings on his mum's side but couldn't put an exact number of further half brothers and sisters thanks to his dad’s promiscuity. He had to spend his first 15 years living in two rooms with five siblings and other lodgers, never having electricity, Christmas presents or being able to afford food. Dalton has also talked about the abuse he received during that time and often being beaten. The physical scars are still present today and he's spoken of the mental anguish he endured, saying: “I was told that I should walk into the road and kill myself. I was told I was ugly and illegitimate.” His mother has responded to her son's remarks, saying: "Yes, (as a child) I beat him when he was rude, but it was more scolding than anything else... "I scolded him out of love because growing up, he was very troublesome. Maybe I overdid it, but he worked out well”. Dalton Harris as a baby Credit: Refer to Caption While she made those comments to local press, when asked now about these abuse allegations now, she said: “I always love my son and care about my son…What I want is the mother and son relationship we had. "We did everything together…And I would like him to come around and if him really want a mother, I am here.” But it’s clear there is still quite a bit of mother-son mending to be done. Dalton Harris is crowned the winner of X Factor 2018 'Mommy I'm going to buy you a big house'

Yet she beams with what can only be a mother’s pride as she talks about the success of her 24-year-old son Dalton - or "Jevon" as she and his siblings call him.

Speaking at her rented home in the rural community of Sanguinetti, she reveals she was not in the least bit surprised her son – her fourth out of her seven children – had scooped a recording contract.

Dalton and his siblings. From left to right, Toby-Ann Sharpe, Ronald Robinson, Davian Brown and Dalton Harris Credit: Sylvia Campbell

Dalton's home town of Sanguinetti is very rural

Even at 13, he told her he was destined to be rich, saying he’d have enough to buy her a big house like the ones for sale in the local Jamaican newspaper.

“He looked in the [Jamaica] Gleaner and he said ‘Mommy look at these houses. I am going to buy you one of these houses one day’”.

She adds that almost everything Dalton told her came true.

"He told me he would buy me a bed, and he gave me a bed. He told me he would first drive me and he was my first child to give me a car ride.

"When I was registering my last child and her father wasn’t giving enough money, he said register her in my name because I’m going to have money.”

Dalton's mum, Sylvia Campbell with his sister Toby-Ann Sharpe and brother Ronald Robinson Credit: Kingsley Welsh

Dalton at his school prize giving award ceremony Credit: Sylvia Campbell

'I was the one who spotted his talent'

Sylvia, whose oldest child is 31 and youngest is 11, claims she noticed his singing talent at age six.

“Coming on to primary school, one time he said to me he’s going to go sing at Fearon Church.

"So I bought him a white pair of shoes with some money sent by his godmother, and he went over there and sang and the people said, ‘Where were you when Dalton was lifting off the roof?’”

From there, Dalton was taken under the wing of his teachers and began singing everywhere - at church, school, graduation, karaoke, at local competitions.

Sanguinetti Primary School, where Dalton's talent for singing was first discovered Credit: Sylvia Campbell

'Everyone gets lashings in Jamaica'

Dalton would go on to attend Edwin Allen, an athletic powerhouse school that has contributed at least three Olympians - including female sprinter Christania Williams.

But Dalton was not particularly athletic nor did he shine academically at this school. His gift was music.

His school reports remarked on an "unacceptable performance" and that he needed to "improve his attendance and behaviour" and "settle down and work hard".

Dalton returning to the Jamaican equivalent of The X-Factor, Digicel Rising Stars, which he won when he was just 16 Credit: Sylvia Campbell

Delores Ricketts, who taught in the theatre arts department there said she used to help him with lunch money and transportation to come to school.

When asked about Dalton's mum abusing him she said. "I don't know of that. I don't know how many of us grew up in Jamaica without getting lashings from their parents.

"Why is it now abuse?... I know she loved Dalton. As a single mother, she needed help."

The school has won Jamaica's premier high school championships for the past five years. Credit: Kingsley Welsh

But as a talented musician, fellow students prodded Dalton to enter the X Factor equivalent in Jamaica, Digicel Rising Stars, even while he was still in high school.

He won JMD$1 million (£6,229 in today’s money). What happened to those winnings remains unclear.

By this time, the 15-year-old had moved out of his mother’s home to live with relatives because of issues on both sides that were unresolved, according to a source familiar with the family situation who did not want to be named.

Phillip Cardis, Dalton's former guidance counsellor remembers his reaction when he was asked in a media interview about his chances of success. “His response was, ‘I have no competition!’”

“Dalton is known to be brash and because he is brash there are persons who misunderstand him, persons who take exception to him, persons who even dislike him,” said Cardis.

“He was larger than life. He was ahead of his time.”

Phillip Cardis, his guidance counsellor, says Dalton is brash

Dalton would go on to become the youngest winner of the competition and eventually moved to the capital, Kingston, and into the family home of music promoter and producer Donovan Germain.

Germain ensured he finished high school at Kingston College, eventually graduating with six Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects, according to a report in the Jamaica Observer.

Dalton on a flyer promoting Jamaican talent show, Digicel Rising Stars Credit: Sylvia Campbell

He wasn't homeless - I cleaned his new house

One person who helped him move to Kingston said he may have used his winnings to move into his own place at one point, and three people close to him - including his mum - have said they don’t understand quotes from Dalton where he's called himself homeless because they claim not to remember a time when he ever was.

His mum says she’d even visited his place after he moved out and helped him clean it.

But, wherever he was living, at 17 he had sunk into a dark place.

In a recent interview Dalton said: “Nothing from my childhood made me feel I was good. I felt nothing positive from anybody apart from my sisters.

Dalton with two of his sisters; Crystal Harris (left) and Malina Campbell (right) Credit: Instagram

“All I got was hate, hurt, abuse. As a teen it got to me. When people tell you to go and kill yourself, after a couple of years you feel like you probably should.”

Dalton managed to get himself through that dark time and started working on cruise ships, setting his mind on X Factor after seeing a YouTube clip seven years ago.

Winning X Factor has, no doubt, catapulted him into a new dimension, with his song Power of Love immediately shooting to number four in the UK chart.

Nascive Brown, who guided and promoted him around his community of Sanguinetti for the local championships, says he believes with this record deal, Dalton can go all the way.

“If he has the proper management, I think this is a stepping stone toward that goal. I’m expecting great things from him!”

Anthony and Louis congratulate Dalton on becoming the winner of The X-Factor and securing a recording deal Credit: Rex Features

The X Factor winner Dalton Harris reveals he will have to leave the UK due to his visa

Although the great things are on hold for the moment as Dalton might have to return to Jamaica because his UK visa has run out.

Show bosses are now hastily trying to negotiate a new visa, which will allow him to return to perform on the upcoming X Factor tour and begin recording.

Only time will tell whether he'll visit his mother while he’s back in Jamaica - but she says she still really wants him to buy her a house.