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"Something serious has happened"
Top model Helena Christensen broke her two decades of silence to talk about her relationship with Michael Hutchence as part of a new documentary about the leader of the group INXS.
Last week, new documentary BBC Two Mystify was announced – with interviews with Kylie Minogue, Bono, surviving members of the band, Hutchence's brothers and sisters Rhett and Tina, her stepmother Susie and producer Nick Launay.
Christensen also speaks of Hutchence for the first time in the new film, recalling their four-year relationship and describing it as "merry, sweet, deep, and emotional."
"[It was] total mental and physical chemistry, "she said, reports Marie Claire.
She also recalled Hutchence's brain injury in 1992 after being badaulted by a taxi driver and how he became "dark and very angry" after losing his sense of smell as a result of his injuries.
"He [Hutchence] was unconscious and blood was flowing from her mouth and ear, "said Christensen. "I thought he was dead."
She continued, "We arrived at the hospital and he woke up and was aggressive. They tried to make him stay but he pushed them away physically.
Christensen also remembers how upset he was when he said, "When I have children, I will never be able to smell my baby."
"Something serious has happened," she added. "I was deeply sad, confused and disconcerted, but at the same time, it could not have gone on like this. "
The relationship between Hutchence and Christensen ended in 1995. He was found dead on November 22, 1997 after having committed suicide, just seven months after the release by the Australian rock veterans of their tenth album "Elegantly Wasted" . He was 37 years old.
Last year, her sister Tina Hutchence made the headlines when she talked about her troubled past years. Speaking of the "media circus" surrounding Michael, her partner Paula Yates and her ex-husband Bob Geldof, Tina said he had become a prime target for the British tabloids when they opposed him to singer Boomtown Rats.
"I think you can always find out if an article comes from a British newspaper just after reading it," Tina continued. "He had always had such good relations with the press. They did not bother him, or did not even realize it was him. I had seen it walking around Paris, Los Angeles and Australia and people were just saying, "Oh, I saw your show the other night," and he said: "Thank you, my boy," shake their hands and keep walking.
"But when all that exploded in London, he was absolutely out of it. I was told once that with the tabloids, they had to have a good guy and a bad guy. What role could he play if Bob [known in the UK tabloids as “Saint Bob”] was on the other side? "
With unpublished recordings of Hutchence, Mystify is directed by Richard Lowenstein, who has made several INXS videos.
Jan Younghusband, Head of Ordering at BBC Music, said: "Michael Hutchence was one of the most influential and charismatic rock stars of the modern era and I am delighted that this moving documentary is broadcast on BBC2. " the film.
A statement says Mystify will feature "rare archive footage and intimate information from friends, lovers, family colleagues and Hutchence himself. The film describes his life from the beginning of his fractured family past to the heights of rock celebrity.
No transmission date has yet been announced for the film, presented for the first time at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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