A row has damaged out in George Michael's household over his lonely remaining months, mates revealed yesterday.
Relations stated they felt they'd been shut out of his life and weren't instructed he had died, solely studying of the tragedy from information stories.
Members of his prolonged household stated the 53-year-old had retreated to his bolthole in Oxfordshire and questioned why extra was not achieved to assist him battle his drug addictions.
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Tragedy: George Michael died on Christmas day after lengthy battle with medication and alcohol
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A supply stated: 'It is a big household and now half are blaming the others for letting him smoke and drug himself to dying. There's loads of recriminations.'
An announcement launched by his publicist Connie Filippello yesterday on behalf of the star's 'household and shut mates' stated they'd been 'touched past phrases by the unimaginable outpouring of affection' by his followers.
'For somebody whose life was in the end about his music and the love he had for his household and mates, his followers and the world, there might be no extra becoming tribute than the numerous, many, variety phrases which have been stated and quite a few performs his data have acquired,' the assertion added
Michael was discovered lifeless in his mattress at his second dwelling in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Christmas Day. His supervisor stated he had suffered coronary heart failure.
'Opposite to some stories there have been no suspicious circumstances surrounding his dying and from the underside of our hearts we thank those that, rightly, have chosen to have fun his life and legacy at this most distressing of occasions,' she added.
The singer had battled with drug addictions for years and was reported to have been utilizing heroin, however his publicist insisted there have been 'no suspicious circumstances surrounding his dying'.
His boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, who found his physique, stated the singer had died 'peacefully'.
Michael's cousin Andros Georgiou stated he had repeatedly begged the Careless Whisper star to get assist as a result of he feared his addictions would finally kill him, however collection of rows had brought about a rift between the 2 males.
Mr Georgiou, a childhood good friend and former supervisor to the singer, wrote on Fb: 'My greatest worry has come true. I am unable to consider this. Please somebody inform me this isn't true, Yog [Michael's nickname] cannot be gone.' The cousin wrote within the early hours of Boxing Day that he was 'watching Sky Information in disbelief'.
Paying their respects: Followers exterior the Goring-on-Thames properties the place he died
Mr Georgiou's sister Katerina instructed the Each day Mail: 'We solely heard after we placed on the information – on Christmas Day. None of us know what occurred. We simply do not know something.'
She stated the star had not seen most of his household after his most up-to-date rehab stint in a Swiss clinic final yr, and had been involved solely along with his sisters Melanie and Yioda, and their aged father.
The assertion launched via his publicist stated: 'The household and shut mates of George have been touched past phrases by the unimaginable outpouring of affection for him within the hours and days since his dying.
'For somebody whose life was in the end about his music and the love he had for his household and mates, his followers and the world at giant, there might be no extra becoming tribute than the numerous, many, variety phrases which have been stated and the quite a few performs his data have acquired.
'Opposite to some stories, there have been no suspicious circumstances surrounding his dying, and from the underside of our hearts we thank those that, rightly, have chosen to have fun his life and legacy at this most distressing of occasions.'
Michael was affected by ill-health after years of hashish and crack cocaine abuse, and a supply instructed the Each day Telegraph he had been handled in hospital following current heroin use. Remaining pictures confirmed the singer bloated and pallid and he had shunned being seen in public due to his look.
He had turned his again on his former life in London and spent rising quantities of time at his cottage in Goring, the place his boyfriend Mr Fawaz and his former lover Kenny Goss had been seen operating errands for him.
Overcome with grief: A girl leans on a automobile coated in messages for the singer in London
Buddies instructed how Michael had vowed to show his life round and wished to start out performing once more.
The singer had recorded a single and was making a solo album, and had spoken to his former bandmates a few particular one-off Wham! live performance. He revealed his plans to shut good friend Shirlie Holliman, who sang with Wham! as one half of Pepsi and Shirlie. She and her husband Michael Kemp, of Spandau Ballet, had been resulting from go to Michael on Boxing Day.
Richard Blade, a DJ who had labored with the band, stated Mrs Kemp instructed him in regards to the reunion thought earlier than Michael's dying.
He stated: 'It is such a disgrace that we now have all been robbed of that likelihood to see a extremely, actually enjoyable pop band get again collectively.'
Actress Debbie Killingback, who performed his girlfriend within the 1986 video for Final Christmas, left flowers exterior his £10million dwelling in Highgate. She stated: 'He was simply pretty, regular and down-to-earth. He was enjoyable and favored to chortle and was simply essentially the most superb particular person. It is simply such a loss.'
Tearful followers sang an impromptu model of the Wham! hit Final Christmas exterior the London home, among the many flowers and candles left in his reminiscence.
Police are treating Michael's dying as sudden however not suspicious, and a autopsy examination is because of be carried out which might reveal if drug use contributed to his coronary heart failure.
He had suffered a near-fatal bout of pneumonia in 2011, when medical doctors needed to carry out a tracheotomy to maintain his airways open.
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