Death Of FREDDIE MERCURY Brought QUEEN Guitarist Brian May To The Brink Of Suicide
September 9, 2011, 12 years ago
DailyMail.co.uk's Spencer Bright reports:
The death of FREDDIE MERCURY brought his close friend, QUEEN guitarist Brian May to the brink of suicide. Seriously depressed by worries about his own future, exhausted after years of touring, and unable to come to terms with the loss of Freddie, he found himself facing a complete mental and physical breakdown.
In desperation, he booked himself into a clinic in Arizona, which he describes as a cross between a university, a health farm and a mental asylum.
The clinic, he says, helped him unravel his emotional problems.
"I talked about my feelings and it worked fabulously. The problem had been me. Once I started to fix me, life started to work again."Freddie had confided to Brian and other members of his inner circle his HIV diagnosis. "We lied through our teeth to protect his privacy", says May.
"Maybe I was in denial myself. We were all hoping a cure would be found. But we agreed we’d make life as comfortable and as private for Freddie as we could."Read Spencer Bright's full report at this location.