Much like the rest of the world, Queen guitarist Brian May was stunned to hear claims that his late bandmate, Freddie Mercury, allegedly has a secret daughter.
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May’s wife, EastEnders star Anita Dobson, described the couple’s reaction to the news in an interview with The Mirror.
“I went, ‘What?’ I thought, No?’” said Dobson, 76. “And I said to Brian: ‘Do you know about this?’ And he said: ‘Do you believe this?’”
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Brian May Questions the Freddie Mercury Lovechild Claims
Apparently, both Brian May and his wife are skeptical of a 48-year-old woman’s claim that she is Freddie Mercury’s daughter.
“There must be lots of people who have children that we don’t know about. It’s just because it’s him,” Dobson said. “Because he’s iconic. And the type of animal that he was, it seems inconceivable that he would have a child with someone we don’t know about.”
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However, that’s exactly what British author Lesley-Ann Jones does claim in her forthcoming biography Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury’s Secret Life and Love. Jones, who has written several books on Mercury, says the iconic Queen frontman secretly fathered a child in 1976 during an affair with the wife of a close friend.
The author says she now has DNA evidence proving that the woman—identified only as “B”—is the daughter of the legendary vocalist, who died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications of HIV/AIDS.
‘Freddie Mercury was and is my father,” the woman said in a handwritten letter included in the book. “We had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life.”
She described the “Bohemian Rhapsody” singer as an “adoring, devoted father” who called her every day, regardless of Queen’s touring schedule.
“The circumstances of my birth may seem, by most people’s standards, unusual and even outrageous,” she wrote. “That should come as no surprise. It never detracted from his commitment to love and look after me.”
Billed as “the closest thing to a Freddie Mercury autobiography the world will ever know,” Jones’ book drops Sept. 5. The publication date would have been Mercury’s 79th birthday.
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