George Michael’s many acts of generosity, typically carried out below situation of anonymity, have come to gentle because the star’s dying in 2016.
Now, his backing singer Shirley Lewis has revealed that she was additionally the beneficiary of his nice kindness, when she discovered herself struggling financially.
Lewis, who was married at the time to Bros drummer Luke Goss told The Mirror newspaper that she had been worrying about the place she woud dwell along with her daughter and had offered her look ahead to £5,000 however was left frantic when the envelope of money went lacking.
She instructed the newspaper:
“I used to be speaking to George on the telephone and immediately burst into tears. He requested what was incorrect and I instructed him my husband and I have been in a extremely unhealthy place and I’d misplaced some money, and he stated he was going to provide me some cash and hung up. The subsequent day I awakened and he’d deposited £50,000 into my account!”
She shared she’d known as him the following day and stated that she couldn’t take his cash, however the star was insistent and instructed her that he didn’t need her to “fear.”
George Michael died on Christmas Day 2016. On that unhappy day and since, many individuals have come ahead with anecdotes of how the singer stepped in to assist them – from a lady on a UK TV present who couldn’t afford IVF therapy to have a child till she obtained a secret donation, to a waitress in a restaurant whom the star overheard sharing her cash worries, and he wrote her a test on the spot for hundreds of kilos.
George Michael was a worldwide solo star following his breakthrough along with his pop band Wham! within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. He offered an estimated 120million data and was reported to have a fortune of £97million ($120million) at his dying.
