have. >> welcome to how it really happened. i'm hill harper. george michael musical singer songwriter charitable superstar but haunted by demons. he had the voice of a maestro, but the darkness of regret which turned him into a tabloid target. all alone on christmas home george michael went to sleep and never woke up. this is how it really happened. >> you know that song, last christmas. it's one of george michael's famous songs of all time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> he loved christmas so much. it was his favorite day of the year and the saddest part of everything is he died on christmas. >> george and his boyfriend began spending a lot of time at his country house, which is halfway between london and oxford. it's a gorgeous area, very traditional, and it being christmas time there was this huge parade past his home, and everyone is carrying torches so it's very spectacular. >> one moment i'm looking out the window and it's a very sad ghostly image caught his face behind the glass sort of looking at a world but detached from it. >> faudi seems to have been the last regular boyfriend in his life. >> he said he had been there that weekend and gone out on christmas eve and the next day christmas day, at about noon, little bit after noon he goes in to wake george michael up and he can't. >> he makes a hurried phone call to the emergency services in oxford dshire. >> is the patient breathe something. >> i think he's dead. >> my reaction was, what the happened to george michael? >> everyone around the world knew who he was. >> he was sexy. he had a great voice. he had a swagger about him. i defy you to watch the video, faith. >> he was serving choreography, everything. >> he was suddenly a sex symbol. everybody remembers those ripped jeans and the aviators. >> i was so impressed of his work. i was in awe of his talent. >> george michael was born in east benchley, london. his father was a restauranter. >> she thought he had talent. she was extremely sensitive and proud that her son and liking toward art and music. >> when george was 12 they moved today sbubs where he met andrew ridgely. >> i thought he was pretty loud. >> you didn't mind him in other words. >> i thought there's a boy i want to sit next no. >> michael knew he always wanted to write music and be famous. >> the one that made have been laugh good looking and handsome. >> by the time they were 16 they started mapping out their future as pop stars. >> and drew ridgely really was the influence to george michael to convince him he had what it took to become a singing superstar. >> one day you're a kid going to school and then boom, wham. >> i immediate wham first after i saw them on the top of the pops. first thing they did was for george to look at us and say can you make tuesday biggest stars in the world? you've got one year. >> their first hit was young guns. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it exploded. nobody had ever seen a group like wham arrive on the scene, exude so much sexuality. >> they were so cute young charming and optimistic and the songs were poppi and they became overnight sensations. >> ladies and gentlemen this is wham! >> on american bandstand you take one look at him and you say, that guy is a star. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i saw wham come on and do their show, and i realized immediately that george's voice and his skills on stage were far beyond his years. i was blown away. >> the records were just flying off the shelves. women were going crazy. young girls wanted to marry the members of wham. they were obsessed with andrew and george. who is hotter andrew or george? >> these women throwing themselves on him and he didn't know quite how to react to that. >> i was seriously underdeveloped emotionally. never had any crushes on anyone at school. >> there was always ambiguity to his sexuality. everybody liked it. the girls liked it. >> the biggest thing was you feel before you go go because i'm not planning on going solo. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it was their second album, wham made it big in 1984 with the hit everything she wants, freedom careless whisper. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> george michael just had a kind of sophistication as a vocalist even when he was doing the most sugary kind of pop he managed to bring that across in a way that was convincing and fun. >> it shows the real brilliance of george michael, his sensitivity and his profoundness in cultivating a song. he was a genius. >> a lot of people say what did andrew do in the group? 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sorry. i don't buy it. >> george michael skyrocketed and you know in commercial terms einar advertise particular terms he did very well but horriblely i think he struggled with it all. >> the faith tour was one of the most amazing concert tours i'd ever witnessed in my life and the adulation he would get and he would go back to his hotel room, close the door and be alone. >> george didn't want to hang backstage and socialize. i think that time alone was just something that would wear on him day after day, you know all around the world from australia to europe to the u.s. to canada. going back to your hotel room alone not being who you really are. >> yeah, there was something missing from his life. >> i knew he was, you know, he was feeling lonely. >> when i was young because i suppose i was so confused, about my sexuality and other things i suppose i was prone to loneliness and the depression around it because it is lonely if you're surrounded by people but you're not really surrounded by anyone. >> george always struggled with his sexuality. at young age he thought he might be bisexual. >> i remember being poolside with rob two thirds through the tour and rob suddenly asked me, do you think that george is gay? i said well, yes, i believe he is gay. i found out as the tour rolled along that george was very unhappy and it became obvious because he was so in the closet. >> as a gay man holding on to that secret and everything fame can i only imagine the pressure with that. >> he was keeping this deep dark secret but then, he falls in love. >> george michael met filipe in 1991 at the rocking rio. >> anselmo was this spirit we wished we always carried around with us. george was happy with anselmo. he was the part that george was missing in his life. >> the day i knew that i knew i was gay was the day i knew i was in love with a man. >> i've never seen him happier in my life. >> people weren't ready for an artist of george michael's sta stature. it would have been career suicide for him to come out and say i'm gay. >> you go why wouldn't he come out? you didn't do that. it didn't happen. there were few people who were out and proud in the 80s. >> then his lover becomes ill six months into the relationship. anselmo found out he had hiv and george was devastated. >> imagine the horror of waiting all your life for love for authentic love and then within months your lover says i have a deadly disease. >> george stuck by him and he helped him. he was by his side 24/7. >> anselmo dies in 1993. shattering george michael. he goes into a deep depression and he has depression in his family history. so, there is a real struggle, and he begins to medicate with prozac and pot and he describes this as a very dark time. >> people close to him admit that that perhaps was the most devastating experience of george michael's life was losing his lover. >> by his own account, smoking 25 splits of cannabis a day, which is a massive amount and obviously that last to take a toll. that's addicted behavior. the thing about addiction is it's progressive. >> he grieved for years before he came back and then came out with jesus as a child which was dedicated to anselmo. >> you smiled at me like jesus to a child ♪ ♪ >> george was grieving and his mother got sick and this was another devastating blow. >> he was so close to leslie and she was the person who in the family encouraged him to become a singer. now all of a sudden he was embroiled in helping his mother to fight her cancer. >> not only did she have cancer, she died three months later. >> he really was an emotional wreck and was in a manic state. >> i lost my mother and as has been fairly well documented i lost my percent partner. i was afraid and really scarred by the things that happened to me. >> i was scared that he it was going to -- i was scared. >> he needed to be watched. >> imagine an international superstar arrested in a public park men's room. people started questioning him, was going on here. 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>> he had come out to his parents after anselmo died. he was open with his circle of friends what george michael hadn't done was gone on television and told the whole world, i'm gay. >> for a week george lay and sun batheed in a gay pickup park in l.a. where there's also a public bath room. >> he was photographed by several photographers who spotted who he was. >> he was trying to create a situation where he was forced to come out and managing to do it and well, finally that situation occurred when he went to the went to the toilet and met a policeman. >> the police officer lured him in under the pretense of hooking up and when george exposed himself the cops swarmed in. >> beverly hills police officers arrested the singer known as george michaels. mr. michaels was arrested for violation of 647 of the penal code, lewd act. >> people started questioning what's going on here. is george michael is he gay reckless is, he both? is he crazy? three days after this arrest, we got the interview with george like al at cnn. >> you were actually taken into custody at a park in beverly hills. >> yes. >> you were alone? >> i was alone. >> he was so nervous he stopped the interview. you think all george michael really wanted was some compassion and some understanding, maybe some respect. >> your sexuality has been the focus of tremendous attention. >> yeah. i spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when i hadn't had anything like a gay relationship and in fact i was 27 before that happened to me so i spent my years growing up being told what me sexuality was really, you know, which is kind of confusing. and then by the time i kind of work out what it was and i stopped having relationships with women i was just so indignant the way i had been treated until then, i'll just hold on to this, i don't think i should have to tell them but this is as good a time as any. >> i think he just told me he's gay. did you just tell me he's gay? >> what is it you want to say? i want to say that i had no problem with people knowing that i have a relationship with a man right now. i have not been in a relationship with a woman for almost ten years. >> george why do you feel compelled to open up a very private part of your life and make it so public? >> i feel stupid and i feel reckless and weak for allowing my sexuality to be exposed but i don't feel shame. >> you could also see it was real and he was telling the truth and he felt comfort in the truth. i had hoped for him that this was the beginning of a wonderful chapter in his life. but it didn't turn out that way. >> we all heard how many drugs he was doing and how unhappy he was from time to time. >> there's in compressed time period where he does seem to been engaging in very self-destructive behavior. >> in the mid-90s he was arrested about for driving under the influence. wind occasion he was asleep. his car was park but he was arrested for national cots i can. >> i was found to have drugs in the car. i put my hands up and said it was stupid of me. i was not unfit to drive but it was stupid. >> it would be on the news seemingly every other year he was arrested for doing something in his car. >> here we go again with george michael. he's been arrested on drug charges again. police found him in london slumped over in his car. >> when he was arrested unconscious at the wheel, i believe he was also in possession at that time of the designer drug ghb the so-called sex drug. it was very late at night because george had been out during the day to the gay pride event where he crashed his car in front of the photographic store. >> he was filled out of his mind and the reports reveal that and he shouldn't have been on the road. >> and he was also taking a drug that's a muscle relaxant. >> he didn't know where he was or who he was. >> he spent eight weeks in period which is standard for a prison sentence in the u.k. you'll be considered for parole halfway between your sentence. >> free after four weeks behind bars and now determined not to be a prisoner in his home. >> i just thought there's no one in my house and i just thought if i'm going to -- as much as i'd love to play cat and mouse with you all, i can't be [bleep] around. i want to go out. if you would take a few pictures i'd appreciate it. >> george michael was a mess. >> people should have seen the writing on the wall then. they should have known that something healy was wrong. >> even then he didn't change his habits. he still turned to drinks and drugs to help him cope with his depression. >> this is a very sad man or sad life seemingly desperately trying to feel better. >> let's go. if you have this... consider adding this. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesn't... and let you see any doctor. any specialist. anywhere in the u.s. who accepts medicare patients. so if you have this... consider adding this. call unitedhealthcare today for your free decision guide. ♪ old school hard work meets bold, new thinking, ♪ to help you see untapped possibilities and relentlessly work with you to make them real. ♪ lowe's knows a style refresh is even more refreshing ...when it's at the right price. that's why, we've we pull our favorite looks together in-store and in in the app. so it is easy to get the look you want for less. you got this. we got you. here's how tommy lost 30 lbs on noom weight. i'm tom. noom helped him use psychology to lose weight. the mindful aspect made me feel more conscious about what i was eating and why i was eating it. it's actually working. lose weight and make it last with noom weight. 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[ringing]. >> ambulance, emergency. is the patient breathe something. >> it's george michael. >> how old is he? >> i'm a 3. >> 53. okay and where is he at the moment? can you get him on his back? >> he's [indistinct]. >> okay, is he cold? >> he's cold and he's blue. >> he's cold and he seems to be beyond hope by that stage. >> would have got somebody on the way. do you think he's beyond any help? >> no. 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[ birds chirping ] steele: what happened on christmas day, it seems incredible that fadi would be trying to revive him and not phone the emergency services first. which became a big bone of contention as to whether paramedics could've done anything at all, even if they'd been called an hour earlier. certainly the details suggest that in the words fadi used, "he's cold, he's gone," he seems to be beyond hope by that stage. telling: nobody's completely sure what happened between fadi and george on christmas eve. fadi was very loyal to george, and george was very loyal to fadi, but they would fight. they were sort of on-again and off-again. they partied together, so while they were good in some ways, they were maybe not so good together in other ways. velez-mitchell: fadi fawaz said he had been there that weekend, according to a newspaper he had spoken to, and he'd gone out on christmas eve, and he got back, i guess, late and slept in his car. first, the boyfriend, fadi, said he had spent the night with george. then he says, no, he slept in the car. why was he sleeping in the car on christmas eve? there's a lot of questions that arise during his last hours. but ultimately, it seems he was interviewed by the police. they found nothing suspicious in his account. it probably was something as trivial as a lover's tiff. there were tweets put out by his lover. reporter #7: we're now receiving statements from some of the people who knew george michael best, including the man who was with him on the day he died. his partner, fadi fawaz, tweeted overnight in which he said this. he said, "it's a christmas i will never forget, finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning. i will never stop missing you." he also tweeted that george had wanted to die... ...and that this maybe was a suicide. halperin: fadi's tweets shocked the world when he said that george wanted to commit suicide. that doesn't make sense. why would somebody who cares so much about another person do that after they died? telling: george michael's family was obviously incredibly upset with fadi fawaz. hilton: ultimately, he said his twitter was hacked. why would somebody hack his account and tweet that? there's no evidence that his account got hacked. ♪ lee: everyone wanted to know why george michael had died, but it took some time for the coroner's report to come out. the first one was inconclusive, so they had to do it again to figure out what exactly happened. not sure why they took so long. two and a half months now since george michael's death in his home in oxfordshire on christmas day, the coroner now saying that he died of natural causes relating to the heart and the liver. the circumstances surrounding his death and even the documentation on the death certificate, it's all vague. what it said on the coroner's report is that he had a myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle resulting in a cardiomyopathy, meaning the cardiac muscle dilated and became very weak and sick, and that's ultimately what killed him, and a fatty liver. those aren't natural causes. those are medical illnesses related to drug addiction. interestingly enough, they didn't release the toxicology report, but they said, "this is not a suspicious death, and basically, his heart gave out." the fact that they didn't release the toxicology report, some people jumped on that to say, "whoo." the findings in that report have never been made public. they've been effectively suppressed, so we don't now what substances were in george's bloodstream when he died. the coroner in england has not released the toxicology results, but i feel pretty certain that it's going to be positive. just all the circumstances sound like somebody who was using. lee: some fans will always want to know george michael's toxicology report to put to rest any doubt they may have had about how george michael had died. and at some point, you forget about the tragedy or the struggles of the artist, and you enjoy the music itself. and ultimately, the music transcends the ages and transcends the tragedy of the artist and lives on and stands in its own right, and i think george michael's music will stand in its own right for generations to come. ♪ moret: when a celebrity puts it all on the line like george michael did, i think he probably inspired a number of people to be honest about their own lives. i felt sad for what could have been. decurtis: i think that this is somebody who left, you know, a bunch of really great hits, who made an impact on people's lives. and i think that's how he'll be remembered. kahane: he was the most kindest, most brilliantly talented artist, friend, little brother... that i've ever had. i'm sad. ♪ michael: you know, it's the old cliché. you get everything you want or everything you think you want, and then you suddenly realize that the gap that you thought it would fill is still there. george michael finally found peace after a life that left a lasting mark on the world. with more than 115 million records sold, he'll be remembered for his iconic sound, both live and in studio. his classic song "last christmas" will always be a sad reminder to fans of his untimely end. i, for one, love george michael and think of him every time i turn a different corner. thanks for watching. good night. ♪ ♪ welcome to our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm laila harrak. thousands of tourists forced to evacuate their hotels as a massive wildfire rips through

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