READ MORE: Freddie Mercury cats: Incredible last-ever pic of star shows final days in bed with DelilahIn the 2016 documentary Freedom, which he made just before his own untimely death, George opened up about everything he was dealing with on stage.
He said: "I went out there knowing I had to honor Freddie Mercury and I had to pray for Anselmo. "The performance most well known in my career was sung to my lover who was dying.
I just wanted to die inside. "I was so overwhelmed by singing the songs of this man I had worshipped as a child, who had passed away in the same manner my first living partner was going to experience. " George and Anselmo's romance had seemed like a fairytale at first.
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