George Michael's Different Story
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In a documentary George Michael is offering the story of his life.
In A Different Story, he asks his former Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley whose life he would have rather had - his own or Michael’s - as if there could only be one possible answer. It’s rather haunting when you realise that he means only an idiot would choose Michael’s life - after all, to the public, Ridgeley is just the pretty boy who hung on to the coat-tails of the hugely talented Michael long enough to make a fortune and then disappeared. I ask him why he would have rather had Ridgeley’s life. “Because he hasn’t experienced loss. I wanted to say to him, ‘You don’t understand, 12 years of my life disappeared into darkness.’ Just because I managed to somehow throw a record out every once in a while to maintain a career …” He trails off.
After 12 years in the darkness, George Michael says he finally feels blessed again
