Freddie Mercury’s alleged “secret daughter” has made a bombshell claim about the Queen frontman’s death – blaming his alleged over Barbara Valentin for his passing. Freddie died four years after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1987, passing from complications of the disease in November 1991 at the age of just 45. 

Valentin was close friends with Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter in a Munich apartment. But his “secret daughter”, known only by B, claims she “took him deeper” instead of keeping him grounded. She said of Barbara, who died in 2002: “No one can deny her significance in Freddie’s life throughout the two years that their relationship lasted.

“Had she adopted the same attitude as Mary, and had she tried to keep Freddie’s feet on the ground rather than taking him deeper, his immune system might have resisted the virus for significantly longer,” she said, via MailOnline. 

She added: “Instead, she gave him whatever he wanted, and became his partner in debauchery, depravity and decadence.” 

B claims to have been unintentionally conceived during an affair with the wife of a close friend in 1976. She is now 48, living in Europe, and working in medicine. B has been the subject of a biography by Lesley-Ann Jones, and wrote in a handwritten letter: “Freddie Mercury was and is my father.

“We had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life. He adored me and was devoted to me.”

She claims Freddie entrusted 17 handwritten journals to her, “the closest thing to a Freddie Mercury autobiography that the world will ever know”. The claims were apparently already common knowledge among the Queen star’s inner circle – but Brian May’s wife Anita Dobson branded it “fake news”.