Canadians will soon have a chance to watch the compelling documentary that George Michael worked on before his death last Christmas.
George Michael: Freedom will premiere on Oct. 21 on HBO Canada.
“I had a desperate ambition as a child to be famous,” he said in the film.
“But if I was looking for happiness, that was the wrong road. I can’t explain how overwhelming that kind of hysteria can be. Suddenly it’s scary. Ten months of that was enough to push me to the edge.”
At the end of Freedom he said he hopes people will remember him as someone “who had some kind of integrity.”
But, he added, that’s “very unlikely.”
Michael said: “I think it’s all been a waste of time, a waste of effort.”
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