Dark Demons: George Michael Tormented By Fear He May Have Given Female Lovers AIDS

Before his sudden death, music icon George Michael was tormented by the fear he may have given AIDS to his string of female lovers.

In a newly-resurfaced interview with GQ, the singer says he used to sleep with many women before meeting his first serious boyfriend, Anselmo Feleppa. As soon as Feleppa was diagnosed with AIDS, however, Michael stopped bedding females, fearing he would spread the killer virus.

“I used to sleep with women quite a lot in the Wham! Days but never felt it could develop into a relationship because I was a gay man,” says Michael in the interview. At one point, he even told reporters that he wished he’d slept with Madonna before fully immersing himself in the gay lifestyle.

“I decided I had to stop, which I did when I began to worry about AIDS. I didn’t want to sleep with a woman without telling her I was bisexual,” he continues.

His health crisis took a tragic turn in 1993, when he suffered from a died from a brain hemorrhage and died.

Feleppa’s sudden death sent Michael on a downward spiral that led him to drug abuse and depression. His despair was so deep that he was puffing up to 25 spliffs a day and could hardly leave his bed.

It took the singer three years to get over Feleppa’s passing and revive his dating life.

Michael stayed with his second boyfriend, Texan businessman Kenny Goss, until 2011, and revealed to reporters that his love is what kept him from taking his own life.