U2 frontman Bono reveals the heartbreaking reason why he ended his friendship with Michael Hutchence before his suicide in 1997
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U2 frontman Bono has talked about his friendship with the late Michael Hutchence, and why he eventually had to cut ties with the tragic INXS singer.
In an excerpt from his book Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story published by Apple Newsthe Irish rocker, 62, revealed that he and wife Ali Hewson had a close relationship with Hutchence and his partner Paula Yates in the early ’90s.
But things changed when Hutchence and Yates “wrapped into the vortex of a recreational drug use that had become hard work for everyone, especially their families, especially the younger ones.”
U2 frontman Bono (pictured) has spoken about his friendship with the late Michael Hutchence, and why he eventually had to cut ties with the tragic INXS singer
“As their behavior changed, our friendship became tense and we felt uncomfortable during their visits,” Bono wrote.
In 1996, Hutchence and Yates welcomed their daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof and asked Bono and Ali to become her godparents.
However, they refused because they were “so unpicked” by the couple’s drug use, and this ended their friendship.
Bono reveals in his new book how he and his wife Ali Hewson had a close relationship with Hutchence (pictured in 1990) and his partner Paula Yates in the early ’90s. But things changed when Hutchence and Yates drifted ‘into the vortex of’ drug addiction
On November 22, 1997, a maid found Hutchence naked and dead behind the door of his hotel room in Sydney at around 11:50 am.
A coroner ruled that the 37-year-old musician had committed suicide by hanging himself while depressed and under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
Paula died in the year 2000 of a heroin overdose.
In 1996, Hutchence and Yates welcomed their daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof and asked Bono and his wife to become her godparents. However, they refused as they were ‘so ostracized’ by the couple’s drug use and this ended their friendship
“Neither of us dreamed that they would both be dead so soon. Even now I can’t believe I just wrote that,” Bono said.
Tiger is now based in Perth, Western Australia with her boyfriend Nick Allbrook, the frontman of the psychedelic rock band Pond and a former member of Tame Impala, whom she began dating in 2017.
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In 1997, a maid found Hutchence naked and dead behind the door of his hotel room on November 22.