Although Freddie Mercury tried to hide his illness from the public, he couldn't disguise how much his body had physically declined over the years. As Brian May wrote, per The Times, one of the major pressing issues by late 1991 "was actually his foot, and tragically there was very little left of it." Mercury reportedly shocked his bandmates by revealing it to them during dinner. He immediately apologized, telling the guitarist: "Oh Brian, I'm sorry I've upset you by showing you that." May replied by insisting that he wasn't upset for his own sake, but by the realization of "all this terrible pain" that Mercury's body was going through.
Elton John also reflected on Mercury's declining health during those final months in his memoir, "Me: Elton John Official Autobiography," revealing that the singer's vision was almost gone by the end. "He was too frail to get out of bed, he was losing his sight, his body was covered in Kaposi's sarcoma lesions, and yet he was still definitely Freddie, gossiping away, completely outrageous," John commented, adding that Mercury never let his health stand in his way. "I couldn't work out whether he didn't realize how close to death he was or if he knew perfectly well but was determined not to let what was happening to him stop him being himself."
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