Kylie Minogue was brought to tears as she opened up about her romance with late INXS rocker Michael Hutchence in her new docuseries.
Nearly 30 years after Hutchence’s 1997 death, his pop star ex, now 57, said she had been searching for a love like theirs ever since.
The couple dated between 1989 and 1991 before a devastating split.
In her docuseries Kylie, which premieres May 20 on Netflix, Minogue revealed it hit her particularly hard.
“He was the first in so many ways. And of those firsts was heartbreak. I was devastated,” she said.
Despite it, Minogue said they remained connected.
She said she later learned from people in Hutchence’s circle how often he would reminisce about her.
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Minogue recalled attending the musician’s funeral in Sydney following Hutchence’s death in 1997 at the age of 37.
She remembered a feeling she could not fully explain.
”This is going to sound totally crazy, but I felt him going, ‘It will be OK,'” she said.
“I always feel he is with me, which is kind of crazy.”
She was emotional as she spoke about him, admitting she was aware the “emotion and the memories I have with him and with that time might seem disproportionate”.
“I just felt protected and nurtured and valued and believed in,” she shared.
In fact, Hutchence had raised a very high bar.
“You go on and live your lives, but it was definitely an amazing point in time and I’ve probably been looking for something like that ever since and I haven’t got it,” she said.
Hutchence and Minogue crossed paths while she was with her Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan.
The young couple attended an INXS gig and Hutchence invited them both to an afterparty.
In the docuseries, Donovan said he immediately knew the man once dubbed “sexiest man on earth” was after his girlfriend.
“Look, I don’t have anything against Michael. I was a fan. He was everything I probably wanted to be at that point, which is, really, the irony,” Donovan said.
The three-part docuseries, Kylie, will feature commentary from Donovan, as well as musician Nick Cave and sister Dannii Minogue.
It will chart her celebrated career, the intense tabloid scrutiny she faced and her 2005 breast cancer diagnosis.
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