Freddie Mercury's secret daughter breaks silence with confession ahead of tell-all book
Freddie Mercury's secret daughter has opened up about the Queen frontman for the first time as a biography about him fathering her is set to release next month.
According to evidence gathered by the icon's most prolific biographer Lesley-Ann Jones, he had a child with a close pal's wife in the 1970s and the bombshell claims will be revealed in the new biography.
The investigation by Lesley states that Freddie kept private journals and notebooks in which he recorded his life story and innermost thoughts, and documented his relationship with his daughter over a period of 14 years. It comes as the biography has already received backlash ahead of its release.
The woman, who is known as B, has claimed that she was raised by another family but had always known that the performer was her father, revealing he visited her often before his untimely death in 1991.
Reportedly only the Queen members, Freddie's family and his long term partner Mary Austin were aware of his secret love child. Before Love, Freddie is published next month, B has spoken about her late dad for the first time.
She confessed to MailOnline: 'I didn't want to share my dad with the whole world. After his death, I had to learn to live with the attacks against him, the misrepresentations of him, and with the feeling that my Dad now belonged to everyone.
'I cried and mourned my Dad, while fans all around the world mourned Freddie. When you are 15 years old it's not easy."
The book will feature excerpts from Freddie's private journals and notebooks that B personally handed to Lesley-Ann. According to B, this will be the first and only time that Freddie's true life story will have been told by his own flesh and blood.
Lesley-Ann learned about the personal documents when B tracked her down and contacted her. The two women developed a friendship over several years, which culminated in B granting Lesley-Ann permission to share the contents of the journals, as well as her own memories of Freddie in the biography.
The British author has revealed that being raised by her step-dad, B knew from toddler age that Freddie was her father. In her family home, the singer even had a room in their house, in order to spend as much quality time with her as possible.
While the legend was on tour around the world with his band Queen or penning new tracks in the recording studio, Freddie made sure he would call B everyday.
As well as the book, Channel 5 have also commissioned Freddie Mercury: A Secret Daughter, which will air as a 90-minute special and coincide with the book's release.
The feature will explore the 'warm and loving relationship' the Bohemian Rhapsody singer had with his alleged secret daughter, as well as delve into his early childhood in Zanzibar and incredible life as a rock star.
Freddie died at the age of 45 back in 1991, with his cause of death being from bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
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