Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter with whom he had a close relationship until his death in 1991, according to a new biography of the Queen frontman.

The book, Love, Freddie, claims the child was conceived accidentally during an affair with the wife of a close friend in 1976.

Mercury is said to have visited his daughter regularly and gave her 17 volumes of detailed personal journals which she kept a secret.

(Rock biographer Lesley-Ann) Jones said she was first approached by B three years ago. She told the Daily Mail: “My instinct was to doubt everything, but I am absolutely sure she is not a fantasist.

“No one could have faked all this. Why would she have worked with me for three and a half years, never demanding anything?”

  • mriswith@lemmy.world
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    9 天前

    “No one could have faked all this. Why would she have worked with me for three and a half years, never demanding anything?”

    It might all be real, but there’s no way Lesley-Ann is this naive?

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        7 天前

        It was an unwanted pregnancy. I truly doubt all three were okay that they were cool to bang as long as there wasn’t a kid.

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            7 天前

            I doubt it for what I said earlier. Also because if the daughter felt her parents and the third were cool with the sex sessions she wouldn’t have allowed it to be worded as an “affair.”

            You’re either playing the devils advocate, have a personal sexual experience from the time, or really want to believe Freddie could do no wrong.

            • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              6 天前

              I’m doing none of those things, I just think it is plausible that he was hanging out with some swingers and accidentally got a woman pregnant in a time when abortion was less common. I also don’t think that it is likely that the daughter has the power to edit the articles about this event, so they can use whatever word they want.

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                6 天前

                An affair means it was a relationship between two people, one being in a long-term relationship. It was mentioned that the mother did not want an abortion due to her belief in the spirits. The daughter chose when and who she told the story to which is why it’d be the way she’d want it.

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            7 天前

            Yeah sometimes you just do Daddy Roulette and you don’t worry about things like paternity tests