Freddie Mercury 's first girlfriend Rose Pearson has told of the moment she realised he was gay and ended their relationship, never to speak to him again.
In a new documentary, A Life in 10 Pictures, she explains that it came after they had spent a day looking at artistic portrayals of same-sex wrestling.
She said: “We had been to the V&A and seen Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of men wrestling in the nude. I could see he was enamoured in a way that went beyond art appreciation.
Then we went to see Ken Russell’s Women in Love and he was dumbfounded by the wrestling scene. He wanted to stay in the cinema and see the whole thing again. “My blood ran cold, not because it was a bad film but because of the implications.