Freddie Mercury's alleged secret daughter has broken her silence for the first time, ahead of a new biography claiming the Queen frontman fathered a child with a close friend's wife in the 1970s. The woman, identified only as B, spoke to biographer Lesley-Ann Jones, whose book 'Before Love, Freddie' is due for release next month.
B revealed that she was raised by another family but always knew Mercury was her father, saying he visited her often before his death in 1991. She confessed: '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.'
According to Jones, Mercury kept private journals and notebooks documenting his relationship with his daughter over 14 years. B personally handed these to the biographer, saying this will be the first and only time Mercury's true life story is told by his own flesh and blood. Only Queen members, Mercury's family, and his long-term partner Mary Austin were reportedly aware of the secret child.
B said she knew from toddler age that Mercury was her father, and he even had a room in their family home to spend quality time with her. While on tour or in the studio, he would call her every day. Channel 5 has commissioned a 90-minute special, 'Freddie Mercury: A Secret Daughter', to coincide with the book's release, exploring their 'warm and loving relationship'.
Mercury died aged 45 in 1991 from bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
