A lady who claimed to be Freddie Mercury’s secret daughter has died after a battle with a uncommon type of spinal most cancers.
A lady who claimed to be Freddie Mercury’s secret daughter has died
The girl – named solely as B – has handed away on the age of 48 simply months after her claims concerning the Queen legend had been revealed by creator Lesley Ann Jones revealed her existence within the guide Love, Freddie, final summer season.
B’s widow – named solely as Thomas – confirmed the unhappy information to the Each day Mail, telling the publication his spouse died “peacefully after a protracted battle with chordoma, a uncommon spinal most cancers, leaving two sons aged 9 and 7 … B is now along with her beloved and loving father on the planet of ideas. Her ashes had been scattered to the wind over the Alps.”
Author Jones additionally expressed her devastation and revealed B had been battling most cancers since childhood and she or he determined to lastly inform her story about Freddie Mercury as she knew she was nearing the tip of her life.
Jones instructed the publication: “I’m devastated by the lack of this girl who grew to become my shut pal …
“On the finish of her life, it [telling her story] was all that mattered to her. She was very ailing all through the 4 years that we labored collectively. However she was on a mission. She put herself and her personal wants final.”
Jones added: “Her most cancers reared initially when she was very younger. It is the true motive why the household relocated fairly often, in order that they might entry the perfect remedy on the time for chordoma: a uncommon type of spinal most cancers that was all the time going to kill her.
“She had been in remission for some years when it reared once more. That was when she determined to contact me … We labored collectively for 4 years to get the guide written and revealed – on borrowed time.”
Jones added that B took her husband and two youngsters on a “bucket listing” journey to South America final 12 months and began chemotherapy once more shortly earlier than the publication of the guide in September.
She concluded by saying: “This information is surprising and deeply upsetting to me, however not stunning. I had recognized it was coming all alongside. It was a race in opposition to time.
“Towards the percentages, we achieved what at one time appeared unimaginable, given all that she was up in opposition to. It was the honour of my life to have been chosen by her to share Freddie’s true story.”
The guide claimed B was fathered by Freddie following a fling with a pal’s spouse and her existence was saved a secret from everybody other than the singer’s closest family and friends. It was based mostly volumes of diaries which had been stated to have been given to B by her father.
The Each day Mail studies Freddie – who died in 1991 – referred to as her Bibi and wrote plenty of songs about her together with Bijou and Do not Attempt So Onerous.
Jones instructed the publication B did not need to go public along with her id as a result of she was a physician and she or he did not need to compromise her sufferers’ privateness. The household dwell in France and at the moment are stated to be contemplating releasing footage of B – together with snaps of her as a younger girl with Freddie.
B’s claims had been beforehand dismissed by Freddie’s shut pal Mary Austin, who declared it will be “astonishing” if the singer had fathered a secret daughter with out her information.
Mary – who was near the Queen star for twenty years – instructed The Sunday Instances newspaper: “Freddie had a wonderful openness, and I can not think about he would have wished to, or been in a position to, maintain such a joyful occasion a secret, both from me or different folks closest to him …
“The reality is that I’m merely not the guardian of such a secret. I’ve by no means recognized of any youngster, or of any diaries. If Freddie had certainly had a toddler with out me realizing something about it, that will be astonishing to me.”
She additionally insisted she had by no means seen Freddie write a diary and she or he can be “very shocked” if the singer had began a journal in his later years.
B offered a response to Mary’s statements by Jones, saying: “I’m devastated by Mary Austin’s alleged response. For 34 years, the reality of Freddie’s life has been distorted, twisted and rewritten, however she stated nothing …
“Right here, she has not but learn the guide, but she apparently makes this assertion. I don’t perceive why …”
In Love, Freddie, B admitted she struggled with the general public mourning for the singer, who died of an AIDS-related sickness when she was 15 years previous.
An extract from the guide acknowledged: “I cried and mourned my Dad, whereas followers all world wide mourned Freddie.
“For 30 years I needed to construct my life and household with out him and settle for that he wouldn’t be there to share the glad moments with us.
“For 30 years, whereas the remainder of the world was reinterpreting Mercury’s life, his music and all that he had been, I wanted to have my dad only for me and my household. How might I’ve spoken earlier than?”
