Kenny Goss says he and George Michael should never have split up.
The Texan art dealer dated the ‘Careless Whisper’ hitmaker for 13 years from 1996 to 2009, and in his first televised interview since the star’s death on Christmas Day (25.12.16) at the age of 53, he has opened up about their feelings for one and other and how he misses him more than ever now he is gone.
Speaking in a preview for an NBC show, which is to be aired on Monday evening (27.02.17), he shared: "He was truly the love of my life. And I think I was the love of his life.
"I think we both wished certainly that we would have stayed together. I really miss him. You really miss him when you know that’s not an option any more."
Kenny has refused to comment on George’s boyfriend of four years, Fadi Fawaz, who found the 80s pop legend dead at his home in Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
George had a tough time after splitting from Kenny, including crashing his car into photo shop Snappy Snaps in 2010, receiving a six-month driving ban and an eight-week jail term as well as being struck down with a "life-threatening" bout of pneumonia.
He also fell out of a moving car onto a motorway in May 2013, and last year is believed to have visited a Swiss rehab clinic.
Last month, George’s father Kyriacos Panayiotou said he wants to include Kenny in the memorial as a "public acceptance" of his late son’s homosexuality.
A source previously said: "It is not acceptable in our community to be homosexual and so that was very hard for George’s father, but we accepted George as he was.
"George was a hero for our community, and the Greek radio stations are expected to play the funeral in its entirety.
"We are all waiting for the word and will be lining the streets to pay our respects."
George’s sudden death is still being treated as "non-suspicious".
It was initially thought he had died from heart failure but it’s now believed the singer passed away from an overdose of illegal or prescription drugs.
Kenny Goss: Me and George Michael wished we’d never split up
