George Michael revealed that he felt “guilty” for not calling Princess Diana more when they were friends.
The late Wham! singer enjoyed a close friendship with the then-Princess of Wales but wished he’d picked up the phone and chatted to her more.
His reluctance to call her up clearly came from a good place as he didn’t want to bother her at a time when she may have been feeling “suspicious” of callers and what they wanted from her.
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The pair met when Diana attended Live Aid in 1985 and were friends for 12 years, but it’s no secret the late princess became part of a media frenzy in the last years of her life.
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In 2011 George told HuffPost: “I kind of feel guilty because she did really like me as a person, and I tended to shy away from calling her because I thought she must have so many people calling her for all the wrong reasons.”
“I knew she was so suspicious of people by then, so I would almost treat her the way I know some people treat me. I would presume it was an intrusion to call, when actually you know they’re lonely and would hear a friendly voice.”
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George, who sadly passed on Christmas Day in 2016, once said: “Diana was the only person that I knew who made me feel like an ordinary person.”
He also explained how he and the princess: “clicked in way that was a little bit intangible, and it probably had more to do with our upbringing than anything else.”
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Speaking to the Mirror in 2016 he said “I thought she was so great not to be consumed by everything that had happened to her and to keep giving and giving.
“I thought she was a really great person – the Elvis of compassion.”
The world was heartbroken when Diana tragically died in a car accident in France on this day (August 31) in 1997.
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