People are trying to portray Mary as the only one who was by Freddie's side, 24/7, until the end.
From what I've been reading, that isn't the case at all.
She came later, ordering everyone around, issuing orders and, throwing her weight around...then, she proceeded to throw out the people who were actually there, taking care of Freddie.
That, is the way it looks.
Mary's given plenty of interviews, including one where she let photographers inside the house.
Joe did prepare, actually, by telling Freddie he'd have no place to go after 13 years and then Freddie bought him a house. Jim had the house in Ireland. Phoebe was probably on autopilot at that point. I can't judge people who were caring for a man dying of AIDS. I just can't and I won't. I can't put myself in their position and try to imagine what they were thinking.
We also have to remember that he wasn't dying in 1987, and carried on for a few years working and going on vacation and the like. New developments in treatment were happening every day, and they probably thought he had a chance to be cured.
I don't really buy the Mary wanting to make changes thing. Sorry. She wasn't even there when he was dying. When he had the seizure and was unresponsive she still waited until 10:30am to get there and only sat with him for under half an hour. She was waiting for her house.
Mary had the wall painted, the one Freddie's fans wrote messages to him, on, she then, had a sheet of plastic placed on the area where the fans used to post messages and pictures, so they couldn't continue doing that.....why? How was it hurting her?
She couldn't stand the fact, Freddie, the man who rejected her, not for another woman, but, for other MEN, had so many adoring fans, how dare he be so popular, when he betrayed her...and, they never seemed to notice her, she was nothing, unless she was with Freddie......thus, the revenge.
You don't have to buy into any of this, you have your own theories, but, with everything in me, I believe it to be correct.
ForFreddie,
I'm not sure why you're telling me I don't have to buy anything when I've agreed with you in every post.
I’ve noticed lately some really nasty and disturbed people (maybe the same person) directing their twisted comments toward Brian on his social media. He’s probably too busy getting ready for the Oscars to block them. And he’s looking very fit these days.
The increased attention that Queen is getting brings out a lot of new fans, but also the mentally ill who want to hate on somebody.
Someone mouthed off about Brian Singer and he went off on them.
The most disturbing ones are the fans posting Joe Mazzello's address and such on the internet. It's a very deranged group of teenaged and a little older girls obsessed with the actors, and are taking the movie as fact.
Sweetandtenderhooligan..... sorry, my comments are not aimed at you..... I agree with what you're saying!
I think this will be always discussed.
Of course none of us know what is the true, but we can have our own opinion.
Did Jim and Peter ever say that they should inherit the house, most of the money...? No. They only said that Freddie's will was that they stay in the house as much as they wanted. They also knew that the house would go over to Mary's property.
I think Freddie had some reason to believe that their staying would really happen. He signed a bunch of contracts in his life, do you really think he didn't know it wasn't possible without a document or some condition in the will?
I don't believe that he trusted only in Mary's word or lied to them when told that he want they to stay in the house.
I don't know what happened but she got so much money and earns it still today, but it was so hard for her to fulfill his wish. He didn't want to much and nothing impossible.
Mary became the owner of the house and it's not true that they couldn't stay in the house. They could if she wanted it. She could have brought anyone to live in her house. But the fact is she didn't want that they stay.
Maybe Freddie didn't expect her to move so fast in the house. And of course, Jim, Joe and Peter wouldn't always stay there to live, sooner or later they would leave. She could at least keep them in jobs, she hired other people anyway.
That's my opinion.
Oh, I didn’t know it was about Bryan Singer. What a can of worms that is. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, people need to shut up and stop telling him what to do. It's the Tumblr teens, I'm sure.
I think Freddie assumed Mary would do the right thing, and she didn't. It reminds me of when my grandfather died unexpectedly, and not even 24 hours later my awful uncle (by marriage) asked my mother when he could have my grandfather's truck.
I don't think Jim or Phoebe expected to live there forever.
Donna, the movie ends with the Live Aid-appearance. Why do you even bring up anyone suing each other when the crucial aspect of Mary rushing everybody out of the house was nowhere to be included in the movie?
Funlovincriminal: Maybe Mary wouldn't approve of the film unless she was portrayed a certain way? It's so silly- Freddie being angry at being gay, angry he can't be with Mary and constantly pining away turning on lights. I'm really torn at being a huge fan of Brian and Roger to being pretty upset with them for this silly storyline. They had to know people would only view the film and not research to see if it wasn't all true.
Funlovincriminal: Maybe Mary wouldn't approve of the film unless she was portrayed a certain way? It's so silly- Freddie being angry at being gay, angry he can't be with Mary and constantly pining away turning on lights. I'm really torn at being a huge fan of Brian and Roger to being pretty upset with them for this silly storyline. They had to know people would only view the film and not research to see if it wasn't all true.
I think we've probably all known someone who wasn't what they wanted people to think they were, it depends on how good an actor those people are, as to how much people believe, some people are easier to fool than others.
Mary was a great little actress, she fooled Freddie because he only saw what he wanted to see, Mary HAD to be perfect, he couldn't see her any other way.
The people she couldn't fool, she got rid of, as soon as possible.
Mary was a very nice person and they were both relatively poor when they met.
I’m only in this thread as a reality check in case new fans are reading about Mary and believing stuff that isn’t true about her relationship with Freddie.
So much is on the Internet that isn’t true: for example, some people think that Donald Trump is a time traveler. It’s on Youtube! Ha! (Of course I have no proof that it isn’t true. Maybe his hairstyle is popular in some other time period. Maybe humans will stop telling the truth altogether in the coming centuries. Maybe Melania is a robot.)
