George Michael first met Princess Diana (left) backstage at the World AIDS Day concert at Wembley Arena in 1993. Photo / Getty
George Michael first met Princess Diana (left) backstage at the World AIDS Day concert at Wembley Arena in 1993. Photo / Getty
George Michael disclosed details of his close relationship with Princess Diana and said it was "very clear" that she was "very attracted" to him, a new biography reveals.
The late pop singer, who met the Princess of Wales backstage at a World AIDS Day Concert in Wembley Arena, became oneof Diana's closest confidantes, sharing private meetings, phone calls, and wines-fueled tête-à-têtes, according to the Daily Mail.
She even confessed the details of her impending "grim" divorce from Charles in 1996 on a recording made at the singer's house in Hampstead, London, and told him she had to escape the "not-very-loving royals" at any cost.
"She was like a lot of women who have been attracted to me in my life. They see something non-threatening," he dished during a 2009 interview.
"There were certain things that happened that made it very clear that she was very attracted to me. There was no question."
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! Photo / Getty
Details of Michael's relationship with Lady Di, his struggle to publicly come out and his brushes with the law, are laid bare in David Nolan's new biography George Michael, Freedom, The Ultimate Tribute 1963-2016, DailyMailTV reveals.
Michael had said in an interview that the somewhat unlikely pair had "clicked in way that was a little bit intangible, and it probably had more to do with our up bringing than anything else."
And while the pair's close bond was no secret, he had hinted over the years that their relationship may have gone beyond a friendship.
When asked if he ever considered sleeping with Diana, he coyly told the Huffington Post: "I knew it would have been a disastrous thing to do."
He also admitted he tended to "shy away" from calling her because he worried it would come off as "intrusive."
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However, the pals gossiped during a late-night phone call in 1996 after he rang the princess to wish her happy birthday while he was high on marijuana.
Diana told him of the strains of her divorce while taking a swipe at the Royals saying: "Not a very loving, compassionate family, this one I'm leaving."
The Careless Whisper singer attended her funeral in 1997 and donated the song You Have Been Loved to a Diana tribute album and released it as a single only to be edged out of the number one slot by Elton John's tribute song to the princess, Candle in the Wind in 1997.
