Why George Michael doesn’t want help

George Michael freely admits that his life is a mess, says Simon Hattenstone in the London Guardian. “I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really,” says the 46-year-old singer. He lives with his boyfriend, Kenny Goss, but admits he will “go off and have a shag or have someone come here and have a shag probably a couple of times a week.” Michael has dabbled with all sorts of drugs, including crack, and only recently cut his pot habit down from 25 to eight joints a day. Yet he insists he’s content, even though his show business friends are worried. “You know what I heard last week? Geri Halliwell told Kenny that Bono, having spoken to Elton John, had approached Geri to say, ‘What can we do for George?’ As if Bono gives a s--t what I do with my private life.” As for Elton John, Michael snorts, “He won’t be happy until I bang on his door in the middle of the night saying, ‘Please please help me, Elton. Take me to rehab.’ It’s not going to happen. People want to see me as tragic. It’s just who I am. Look, if people choose to believe that I’m sitting here in my ivory tower, Howard Hughesing myself with long fingernails and loads of drugs, then I can’t do anything about that, can I?”

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