The Final Year Of Freddie Mercury's Life, Explained
Freddie Mercury had a tight-knit support system consisting of band members, his ex-girlfriend Mary Austin, his partner Jim Hutton, his personal assistant Peter Freestone, and others. In the final days leading up to Mercury's death, Mercury chose to cease all medication, and the people he loved began to take twelve-hour shifts to care for the singer.
In "Mercury and Me," Jim Hutton described caring for Freddie Mercury the moment he died: "I was about to change Freddie into a clean T-shirt and pair of boxer shorts ... I felt him try to raise his left leg to help a little. It was the last thing he did. I looked down at him, knowing he was dead." Sutton said that in death, Freddie "looked radiant ... Freddie's whole face went back to everything it had been before." Finally, Freddie was "no longer in pain." However, there are some discrepancies between accounts of Mercury's final minutes — friend Dave Clark also claims he was "alone" with Mercury when he died (via Mirror), while Hutton writes in "Mercury and Me" that Clark was leaving the room as Mercury died, returning to stay with Hutton as he realized his friend was dead.
After his loved ones paid their final respects, Hutton claims that Mercury's body was removed from his house "at the stroke of midnight." Although the press had already discovered the news of Mercury's death by the time his body was removed, a large police presence prevented paparazzi from photographing the coffin.
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