As Saturday Confidential revealed last week, the … These poor girls would go, ‘Hey, are you Boy George?’ and he’d just go, ‘Oh, piss off, piss off.’ “, In late December, George returned to London, where he still maintained two houses. Levine said he didn’t know anything. At one point, he called his brother and pumped him for information concerning George. The next three years are an accelerating whirlwind of activity, as more than 10 million records are sold around the world. At that point he thought he could stop it at any time.”, In reality, things were zooming out of control. That person turns out to be plasterer Mason Lloyde. Blake denied he was willing to pay that price, but he did admit that such an explosive story is worth a great deal on Fleet Street. FOR MONTHS, JOHN BLAKE, THE POP-MUSIC GOSSIP columnist for the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid, had been hearing rumors about Boy George’s drug problems. CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY, JULY 19TH, ALMOST two weeks after George had begun receiving treatments to kick his habit, he walked into the Wag Club, another trendy London hangout Fat Tony was the night’s DJ, and he sensed that this was a very different George from the man who, on Boxing Day, had screamed, “Fuck, I’m not speaking to you again.”, Word was already out among George’s friends that the old Boy George was back. I’m fab, I’m happy, and I get fucked every night’ He was funny.”. On Tuesday, July 8th, the London police staged raids at five locations around the city, including George’s St John’s Wood house, where they reportedly gained entrance by smashing the front door with a sledgehammer. “When someone thinks of a junkie, they always think straight away of a syringe. The Voice coach Boy George has confirmed he will re-record one of his hit songs with a teenage super-fan he met on the show. “He nodded off,” said Fat Tony. “George is really getting into drugs in New York,” a disturbed Sallon told his friends upon his return to London. And Boy George was also becoming bored with Boy George. Lucy Griffiths was overjoyed to meet her idol Boy George. That was the beginning of the end in terms of the downward slide.”. Later that evening, they ran into George at a London club, where, according to Jane, things erupted into a screaming match. So Ocean Spray gave him a truck, Dangerous TikTok trends go viral because we like to be liked, 'Dancing with the Stars' mistake corrected live on air. Everyone’s been a very bad influence, I think. But the story that appeared on June 10th, with a three-inch headline proclaiming, DRUGS AND BOY GEORGE, didn’t mention heroin. Gerald O’Dowd, 32, one of the pop star’s three brothers, killed his wife, Gillian, on Sept. 3 at their home near St. … The police were able to round up several of George’s associates. When I got back to the table, he was sort of slouched. Heaven knows they’ve had enough confusion. He goes, ‘Oh, come on, we’re best friends, and it’s such fun. “George called me the day the story came out,” David added. It’s not just a TV moment for me.’, The Voice continues Sunday at 7.30pm on Channel Nine, Impressed: Boy George (pictured) told Lucy that the song she performed was ‘deeply, deeply personal’ to him, but he ‘loved’ her rendition and called it ‘so beautiful’. Published: 04:02 BST, 28 June 2020 | Updated: 04:03 BST, 28 June 2020. “You spoke to your brother yesterday, and we tape-recorded the conversation.” David Levine denies tape-recording his brother. Then one of his friends arrived with a present: some smack. Boy George, the world-renowned pop star, was about to become a world-famous junkie. “I saw my parents on several occasions actually crying their hearts out,” David said. “They were having this real ego fight,” recalled Fat Tony. Once slightly plump, George was now thin and emaciated.