Freddie Mercury’s ex-partner and long-time shut good friend Mary Austin has damaged her silence on claims he had a secret youngster.
The Queen legend died in November 1991, aged 45, having publicly shared that he had AIDS shortly earlier than.
Having as soon as said that he was bisexual, Mercury was recognized to have relationships with each women and men all through his life, one in every of whom was Austin.
They loved a long-term romance within the early 70s, having met by guitarist Sir Brian Could. Whereas they acquired engaged in 1973, they in the end break up however remained good friends till Mercury’s loss of life, with him as soon as calling her his ‘solely good friend’.
Mercury, who met Autin when he was 23 and he was 19, stated in 1985: ‘All my lovers ask me why they couldn’t substitute Mary, however it’s unattainable. The one good friend I’ve acquired is Mary, and I don’t need anyone else. We consider in one another; that’s sufficient for me.’
Quick ahead to March 2025, and a girl got here ahead alleging the Bohemian Rhapsody hitmaker was her father after he had a quick fling with a good friend’s spouse.
Born in 1976, she speaks out for the primary time in her new ebook, titled Love, Freddie and written by biographer Lesley-Ann Jones, claiming Mercury was ‘devoted’ to her.
Up till now, it’s believed solely Mercury’s Queen bandmates, mother and father, sister, and former associate, Austin, knew concerning the youngster’s id. Now 48, working in medication and with children of her personal, she is referred to solely as B.
Nevertheless, in her new interview, ex-fiancée Austin has poured chilly water on the allegations, insisting she didn’t know of B’s existence.
Speaking to The Instances, Austin, who inherited a lot of Mercury’s property, stated she can be ‘astonished’ if the claims have been confirmed to be true.
‘Freddie had a wonderful openness, and I can’t think about he would have wished to, or been capable of, hold such a joyful occasion a secret, both from me or different individuals closest to him,’ Austin stated.
She additionally responded to the 17 handwritten diary entries that Mercury allegedly gave to his daughter shortly earlier than his loss of life, which B says she was trusted with as ‘his solely youngster and his subsequent of kin’.
In a letter to Jones for her ebook, B says: ‘Mary Austin—the great girl who was to all intents and functions his spouse till loss of life parted them—knew completely every thing about him, together with all his undisclosed secrets and techniques.’
However Austin herself denies such a factor.
The 74-year-old added: ‘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 baby with out me realizing something about it, that will be astonishing to me.’
Austin says that, if the We Will Rock You star did have a daughter, it could have introduced him ‘large pleasure’, in addition to to his mother and father and ‘everyone who cared about him’.
Whereas she believes that Mercury’s mother and father, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, would have ’embraced her with all of the love of their hearts’, she ‘doesn’t bear in mind Freddie ever talking about making a household.’
Her feedback admittedly come as a ‘shock’ to writer Jones, who responded to The Instances by claiming she approached Austin for an interview ‘numerous occasions over a few years, however she by no means as soon as responded’.
‘Mary was not celebration to a secret that Freddie had a baby? I don’t recommend that she was. Nor do I recommend that she was conscious of or was handed any diaries,’ Jones says.
She proceeds to reiterate B’s assertion that Austin ‘knew every thing about [Mercury]’ however specifies that the rocker’s alleged daughter has not divulged which ‘undisclosed secrets and techniques’ Austin could have been aware about.
Austin’s interview, which she felt compelled to provide because of the secret youngster claims gaining traction, follows B taking a paternity take a look at to show her id.
Taking to X, hitting out at allegations B is mendacity, author Jones stated: ‘To these “demanding” to see proof of a DNA take a look at, in any other case they received’t consider it – please relaxation assured that the requisite verification was obtained, authorized groups have been concerned, however that such measures are personal & not shared publicly. Thanks’.
She implored critics to ‘wait and see’ if they’re doubting the legitimacy of Mercury’s diary entries, after B denied wanting cash or fame after coming ahead.
‘His true story, informed in his personal phrases, is unimaginable,’ stated Jones. ‘I like him all of the extra for it. You’ll too.’
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