Relationship Status – “It’s Complicated”
Fame and love didn’t seem to be working for Freddie Mercury even during a successful career. Mary Austin was Freddie’s first love, and both showed full commitment to the relationship for the six years that they were together. Everything went well for the pair until 1976 when he started seeing a male employee who made Mary end their six-year affair. In 1980, he decided to call it quits and began a new relationship with Barbara Valentin who was an Australian actress.
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A year later, Mercury chose to date another male friend who was working as a hairdresser. Freddie never had a lasting relationship and never married.