Freddie Mercury’s father, Bomi Bulsara, passed away in 2003 at the age of 95. In 2012, this then-90-year-old mother, Jer (pictured with Brian May), spoke with The Telegraph about her son — who she affectionately referred to as “my boy.” First and foremost, she said, “Freddie kept a strict division between his work and his home all his life. If I ever asked, he would say, ‘Mum, that is business, and this is family.’ He was kind and very respectful to both myself and his father.”
Mercury moved out when a neighbor complained about his relentless music, and although his mother said she was sad, she did understand. Still, she says that even when he hit it big, he was never too busy to visit his parents. “He always liked my cooking, especially my dahls, sweet and sour mince, and cheese biscuits. When he was famous and had people to dinner, he’d sometimes ask me to make them for him.”
He was the sort of son who bought his mother a nice set of silverware to apologize for missing a meal and who invited them over to his own house for meals (via The Telegraph). Ultimately, she said, “Whatever he did or wore I always saw in him the same child I knew, he would tell us lots of jokes, and I could always connect with him.”
Jer Bulsara passed away in 2016, at 94 years old (via Billboard).
