'Terribly weak' Freddie Mercury's heartbreaking last words before death

Michelle Marshall & Hollie BealeSun, August 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM UTC

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Freddie Mercury sadly died November 24, 1991 -Credit:Getty

Rock icon Freddie Mercury passed away at his home, Garden Lodge, exactly 34 years ago on November 24, marking a somber anniversary today. The beloved frontman of the legendary band tragically lost his life at just 45 years old after a courageous battle with AIDS.

Freddie's heartbreaking final words have resurfaced as his partner Jim Hutton recounted the singer's harrowing last hours.

Throughout the final weeks of his life, the only people by his side daily were his partner, Jim; his personal assistant and close friend, Peter Freestone; his ex-boyfriend, Joe Fanelli; and his ex-girlfriend, Mary Austin. Hutton, Freestone, and Fanelli all shared Freddie's home, while Mary lived close by.

In the early hours of that fateful morning, he had fallen into a coma, but Hutton had previously documented Freddie's last conscious moments in his book Mercury and Me. This comes after Whitney Houston's autopsy was unearthed in recent months.

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Hutton recalled Freddie's frail physical condition and the distressing sound of a bone cracking, which caused the singer considerable anguish, reports the Express.

He wrote: "Freddie woke up again at six in the morning and uttered what were to be his last two words: 'Pee, pee!' He wanted to be helped to the loo.

"He looked terribly weak, and I had to carry him. As I lowered him back onto the bed, I heard a deafening crack. It sounded like one of Freddie's bones breaking, cracking like the branch of a tree."

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Freddie Mercury pictured with Jim Hutton (far left) backstage at Live Aid in 1985 -Credit:Getty

Hutton revealed that Freddie "screamed out in pain" as he called for assistance, before the singer eventually settled down and drifted off to sleep.

By the following morning, Freddie had slipped into a coma. Freestone reached out to Freddie's personal physician and close friend, GP Gordon Atkinson, who administered morphine.

Freddie never regained consciousness.

Although no autopsy report has ever been made publicly available, Atkinson's signature is reportedly on the death certificate, which lists Bronchopneumonia as the official cause of death — a complication resulting from the catastrophic collapse of the star's immune system due to AIDS.

This comes after it recently came to light that Freddie had a secret love child. Only his innermost circle - including his parents and sister - knew about her existence.

Freddie Mercury's tragic last words revealed before autopsy -Credit:GETTY

His bandmates and his lifelong love, Mary Austin, were also in the know. The book, titled Love, Freddie, revealed that the child was conceived accidentally during an affair with the wife of one of Freddie's close friends in 1976.

Freddie's daughter, known only as B, has now sadly died at the age of 48. Her widower revealed B tragically died after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, B's widower revealed, "[She died] peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer, leaving two sons aged nine and seven." He said her ashes have been scattered in the Alps, and she is now "with her beloved and loving father."

B was a mother, making Freddie a posthumous grandfather. The woman shared her story with rock biographer Lesley-Ann Jones in the months before she died.

She explained how she was raised by a loving family but always knew that the music legend was her father. Before his death from pneumonia caused by AIDS in 1991, Freddie gifted his daughter 17 volumes of his personal journals.

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