Freddie's foot amputation

Brian mentioned that Freddie had his foot amputated towards the end of his life but this isn't mentioned in Phoebe or Jim's book. I was wondering what other Queen fans thought of Phoebe and Jim's books , do you believe in their version of events (not just before freddie died but afterwards, the drama with Mary etc?).

Where did he mentioned that EXACTLY ? A more specific source ( book , interview etc.) please ;)

Freddie did not amputed his foot....

Sorry guys, here's a link to one of the articles: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/freddie-mercury-final-days/

actually a buddy of mine is writing his post-doctorate on this very subject - did you want some medical background on this or just the general science?

The only form of amputation was Freddie's dignity after the idiotic doctors assigned him as boy and instead should be a girl.

Think this started with an interview Brian did for the Times newspaper.

Here's the excerpt It is harrowing to read of Freddie’s final days and the devastating effect the HIV virus took on his body before he died in late 1991. “The problem,” May writes, “was actually his foot, and tragically there was very little left of it. Once, he showed it to us at dinner. And he said, ‘Oh Brian, I’m sorry I’ve upset you by showing you that.’ And I said, ‘I’m not upset, Freddie, except to realise you have to put up with all this terrible pain.’ ”

Brian was livid they printed that, don't know if he really said it, maybe off record. He was fuming about the whole article. This is the link to the interview - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brian-may-exclusive-interview-queen-debauchery-and-freddie-mercury-7ggdmdsrg

@LR1 I think nature decided he would be a boy. Don't really think that doctors decide that sort of stuff.

@Bertus Maybe you should look more into this part of Freddie's life. He might have had it amputated. We can't know but it really is a very interesting period of mystery etc as you know.

[QUOTE] [b]rockchic65 wrote:[/b]

Think this started with an interview Brian did for the Times newspaper.

Here's the excerpt It is harrowing to read of Freddie’s final days and the devastating effect the HIV virus took on his body before he died in late 1991. “The problem,” May writes, “was actually his foot, and tragically there was very little left of it. Once, he showed it to us at dinner. And he said, ‘Oh Brian, I’m sorry I’ve upset you by showing you that.’ And I said, ‘I’m not upset, Freddie, except to realise you have to put up with all this terrible pain.’ ”

Brian was livid they printed that, don't know if he really said it, maybe off record. He was fuming about the whole article. This is the link to the interview - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brian-may-exclusive-interview-queen-debauchery-and-freddie-mercury-7ggdmdsrg[/QUOTE]

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This was all made up by that newspaper. Days of our lifes Doc shows Brian saying he looked at the knee problems Freddie had. Freddie showed his knee to Brian and looked at the shocked reaction of Brian and said he didn't want to upset him.

Freddie did had some problems with his foot ( look at the Days of Our lifes video footage) and according to the book of Leslie Ann Jones. There was a Leisure that caused the pain at the ball of his foot. But no toes or whatso ever was removed/amputated

You know how rumours work: Brian makes the casual comment of some sort of infection in one of Frederick's lower limbs and suddenly it becomes 'Brian confirms, beyond any reasonable doubt, he had a foot amputated.'

It's like that 'Show Must Go On in one take' legend... Bri never said that, but people twisted his words, as usual.

This article is out of context. Brian in a documentary said that at a dinner Freddie showed his leg and Brian was taken back by it. Freddie apologized. Foot amputation is hog wash

@queenman Yeah I thought the whole article was shitty to be honest, couldn't imagine Brian having said half the stuff in it. That's the gutter press for ya.

I think that's not true.
Jim in his book said that Freddie had a problem with leg and foot, that he had weeping wound but not mentioned any kind of amputation. Jim said that when they went to look at the paintings in the lounge Freddie refused Jim's help to downstairs. He also said that Freddie was barefoot.
I belive what Jim and Phoebe said.
Maybe Brian not exactly said "amputation", I don't know.

To quote the best president in the history of the USA, planet Earth and all near galaxies, "fake news!"