A woman who claims to be the secret daughter of legendary artist Freddie Mercury spoke for the first time about her story.
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The woman, known as “B”, claims she was conceived in 1976, after her mother – the wife of a close friend of Mercury – had an adventure with the soloist of Queen, one year after Bohemian Rhapsody became a hit, writes The Standard.
His book, “Love, Freddie”, written in collaboration with the author Lesley-Anne Jones, will be launched in September and is based on what she says there are 17 hand-written journals that Mercury gave her shortly before her death in 1991, due to AIDS.
B says Mercury had a relationship “Very close and full of love“With her, adding that a “He valued as a valuable good.”
In a statement published by the Daily Mail, she said: “I didn’t want to share my father with the whole world. After his death, I had to learn to live with the attacks against him, with the wrong representations about him and the feeling that my father now belonged to everyone.
I cried and mourned my father, while fans around the world mourned Freddie. When you are 15, it’s not easy. I had to become adult without him … For 30 years I had to build my life and family without him … I needed my father to be my and my family. How could I talk before? ”
Her statements were greeted with skepticism by some of Mercury’s closest friends. Mary Austin, the former partner of the singer, who inherited much of his wealth, would have said that he did not know about the existence of B.
It is said that even guitarist Brian May did not know about the existence of a daughter and expressed his doubt about her story.
B said it was “Devastated“Of Austin’s alleged reaction, accusing her of “He said nothing” For 34 years, while “Freddie’s life was distorted, twisted and rewritten ””. She also criticized Austin because she commented before reading the book.
Author Lesley-Anne Jones said: “I am surprised by Mary Austin’s response. As a journalist, I tried to interview her countless times over the years, but she has never answered. In this book, however, there is only one voice: that of Freddie’s daughter. The story is hers. The quotes are hers. Her source is the collection of 17 hand-written journals that Freddie gave three weeks before he died. “
B said it was her decision to approach Jones and insisted that the journalist respected her wishes “every step”. She added that the “reasons and circumstances” of her contact were explained in the book.
