George Michael's friends slam his ex
The ex-boyfriend of the late George Michael, Fadi Fawaz, has spoken of his shock and heartbreak after finding the singer's body in the early hours of Christmas Day last year.
But now the singer's friends have come forward, claiming Fadi is nothing more than a "leech", and saying he and George really broke up in mid-2014.
“Fadi was a leech from the beginning... within hours of discovering his body, posts appeared on his Twitter account, and then within 12 hours he sold his story," an unnamed alleged friend of George's told the Sun newspaper on Wednesday.
“Does this sound like a grieving partner?”
The friend also claims Fadi and George were not even on speaking terms at the time of the singer's death, saying, "they had been estranged for 18 months."
For his part, Fadi seems to have changed his version of events leading to George's death several times since the news was announced.
"We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch," he initially told the Telegraph. "I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed. We don't know what happened yet. Everything had been very complicated recently, but George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I."
Later, he backtracked, changing his claims from planning to spend the entire Christmas weekend with George. to his sleeping in his car the night George died.
"I fell asleep in my car and I never saw him that night," he told the Mirror.
Adding to the mystery, Fadi's Twitter account posted a string of bizarre messages on New Year's Eve, claiming "the only thing George wanted is to DIE" and "he tired [sic] numbers of times to kill himself many times".
But Fadi says he didn't write any of the rambling posts, saying, “My account has been hacked and closed. I did not send the tweets.”
With the results of George's autopsy inconclusive, police have confirmed there will be more tests in the coming weeks, with the results of a toxicology report unlikely to be available for six to eight weeks.
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