{"id":60743,"date":"2025-08-11T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:40:10","slug":"freddie-mercurys-secret-daughter-speaks-out-for-first-time-amid-scepticism-from-singers-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60743\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury’s “secret daughter” speaks out for first time, amid scepticism from singer’s best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who claims she is Freddie Mercury<\/a>\u2019s \u201csecret daughter\u201d has spoken out for the first time, amid scepticism from Mercury\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n

A new biography of the late Queen<\/a> frontman, titled Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury\u2019s Secret Life and Love, is due out in September, and it includes claims that he fathered a child in 1976 after having an affair with the wife of a close friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The book is co-written by the daughter, who is only referred to as \u2018B\u2019 and is now 48 years old, alongside Lesley-Ann Jones. B says she has based the book on 17 handwritten diaries that Mercury gave her shortly before his death in 1991.<\/p>\n

When the details of the book were announced in May, several of Mercury\u2019s closest friends said they were sceptical about B\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mary Austin, who was Mercury\u2019s former girlfriend and close friend and was living with him at the time of B\u2019s alleged birth, said: \u201cFreddie had a glorious openness and I cannot imagine he would have wanted to, or been able to, keep such a joyful event a secret, either from me or other people closest to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that I am simply not the guardian of such a secret,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ve never known of any child, or of any diaries. If Freddie had indeed had a child without me knowing anything about it, that would be astonishing to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen guitarist Brian May<\/a> said he wanted to remain \u201cneutral\u201d on the subject, but his wife Anita Dobson described B\u2019s claims as \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, B has spoken out for the first time, telling the Daily Mail<\/a> that she was \u201cdevastated\u201d by Austin\u2019s comments. \u201cShe has not yet read the book, yet she apparently makes this statement. I don\u2019t understand why,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

B says she had a \u201cvery close and loving\u201d relationship with her father, who she says treated her \u201clike a treasured possession\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI cried and mourned my dad, while fans all around the world mourned Freddie,\u201d she added. \u201cWhen you are 15 years old, it\u2019s not easy. I had to become an adult without him\u2026 For 30 years I had to build my life and family without him\u2026 I needed to have my dad just for me and my family. How could I have spoken before?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, who co-wrote the book with B, has suggested that they have DNA evidence for the claims. \u201cPlease rest assured that the requisite verification was obtained, legal teams have been involved, but that such measures are private and not shared publicy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mercury died in 1991 aged 45 of bronchial pneumonia caused by Aids.<\/p>\n

In other Queen news, Brian May\u00a0recently\u00a0opened up about his fears that he would never play guitar again following suffering a stroke last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, last year\u00a0Queen released a newly mixed, mastered and expanded reissue of their 1973 self-titled debut album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who claims she is Freddie Mercury\u2019s \u201csecret daughter\u201d has spoken out for the first time, amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,1352],"class_list":["post-60743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}