Elton John’s mother Sheila has broken her silence on why they’ve been estranged for years.
The 68-year-old Rocket Man singer-songwriter had a falling out with her nearly a decade ago and Sheila reveals the pair stopped talking after they engaged in an argument over his now-husband, David Furnish.
“Yes, it’s seven years now in June,” she told UK newspaper The Daily Mail.”‘But you know, I’ve got used to it. And it was all so stupid – so petty.”
At the time, Elton fired some of longtime personnel, who had been employed by him for 30 years or so. Sheila had become quite good friends with the people he let go and she says when Elton asked her to cease contact with them, the matriarch refused. “I told him: ‘I’m not about to do that and drop them’,” she recalled. “Then to my utter amazement, he told me he hated me. And he then banged the phone down. Imagine! To me, his mother!”
Sheila claims the last words she spoke to her son were aimed at his partner David. “You think more of that f***ing thing you married than your own mother,” she shared. “I suppose he was horrified because I dared to disobey.”
However, it seems as if their relationship is on the mend, as Sheila received a bouquet of flowers from the couple after celebrating her 90th birthday a couple weeks ago. A card was attached to the white orchids with a sweet note that reads: “Wow, 90! Congratulations. Love Elton, David, Zachary and Elijah.”
Elton shares two sons with David, four-year-old Zachary and two-year-old David.
John, though, reportedly remains ‘upset and cross’ with his mother. “He is upset and cross, but people should remember that Elton pays all of her bills and that won’t stop,” a source told UK newspaper The Mirror. “Despite everything, Sheila is his mother and he couldn’t see her struggle financially, or go without medical care she needs as a 90-year-old woman.”
Despite the fact he won’t even entertain the possibility of his mother struggling in the last years of her life, it’s believed Elton is deeply disheartened by what she said about their relationship. “But he feels extremely sad that it has come to this ‘ it is without a doubt the worst things have been in the seven years since they fell out,” the insider said.
“What a terrible shame it has come to this. Elton hopes that people don’t believe everything they read.”
Sheila hired an Elton John impersonator to attend her 90th birthday party.
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