George Michael’s many acts of generosity, usually carried out below situation of anonymity, have come to mild because the star’s loss of life 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 on the time to Bros drummer Luke Goss informed The Mirror newspaper that she had been worrying about the place she woud reside 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 informed the newspaper:
“I used to be speaking to George on the telephone and abruptly burst into tears. He requested what was fallacious and I informed him my husband and I had been in a very unhealthy place and I’d misplaced some money, and he mentioned he was going to provide me some cash and hung up. The following day I awoke and he’d deposited £50,000 into my account!”
She shared she’d referred to as him the subsequent day and mentioned that she couldn’t take his cash, however the star was insistent and informed 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 examine 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 information and was reported to have a fortune of £97million ($120million) at his loss of life.
