Yahoo Lifestyle Kylie Minogue chokes up talking about Michael Hutchence
Kylie Minogue. Photo: Getty Images.
Kylie Minogue became overcome with emotion when talking about her ex-boyfriend Michael Hutchence.
In a a guest spot appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the 47-year-old singer opened up about her relationship with the INXS star, who passed away in 1997.
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'I met a new person and I fell in love. Yes, he was this wild guy, he was the rocker, he was all of that. But I'm always at pains to say, he was Byron-esque, he was poetic, he was cultured and hilarious and tender, he was all of these other things,' she revealed.
Kylie dated Michael between 1989 and 1991 and requested INXS's Need You Tonight as one of her songs.
Kylie with her ex-boyfriend Michael Hutchence. Photo: Getty Images.
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'Professionally, he was so supportive. Someone called me the 'singing budgie' in Australia as a knock. So I did this warm-up gig and we said. 'It's the singing budgie, take that, own it and go out.'
She continued: 'We did this little gig and I was so inexperienced at doing live performance. I feel my career is backwards. I started successful then I had to learn everything in front of everyone. I mean he was uber, uber famous. He's an icon already. And he was in the middle of the audience, just gazing up at me, and just willing me, willing me with all of his heart and his love to do well, and he believed in me.
'And it was at a time when so many people didn't.'
Although the pair broke up in 1991, they remained friends up until Michael's unexpected death in 1997, where he was found hanging by a belt in a hotel room in Sydney.
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