George Michael’s former partner says he used to flush the singer’s drugs down the toilet in hopes of breaking his addiction.
In an interview with The Sun, Kenny Goss claims Michael used crack cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.
“I would find drugs and flush everything down the toilet, thinking, ‘If I just get rid of it he won’t get more’. He was absent-minded, so would just think he’d lost them,” Goss told the UK newspaper in exchange for a donation to the Goss-Michael Foundation.
Michael died on Christmas Day at 53. A coroner determined his death was caused by “dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.”
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a form of heart disease and myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart.
Goss, who was with Michael for 15 years up until 2011, said the pop superstar’s escalating drug use was an ongoing concern and put a strain on their relationship.
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“At one point he was smoking 25 joints a day,” he recalled. “I saw him smoke weed all the time but never hardcore drugs. I heavily disapproved so he wouldn’t be around me in that state.
“He shielded me and his family. He had another group of friends he’d do that with.”
Goss said he knew Michael’s drug habit was not going to end well.
“I don’t think George necessarily thought he’d die young,” he said, “but every time I looked into his eyes I thought, ‘My God I’m losing you, what is going on’.”
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Goss, who kept in contact with Michael, said he was also concerned about the singer’s dramatic weight gain in recent years.
“In his 40s he lived life a little bit heavier, but in the past five years he started gaining all this other weight,” he recalled.
“I don’t know why, maybe drugs, medicine or booze.
Goss told The Sun: “I’ve cried thinking, ‘Why didn’t you take better care of yourself’? Maybe if he had he’d still be with us.”