One of the finest fan clubs on social media, Freddie Mercury Club posted a recent photo of Freddie Mercury and his late boyfriend, Jim Hutton.
The fan page exposed a really rare story from Jim Hutton’s book, Mercury and Me and exposed that Freddie was an arachnophobe.
Here is the story:
“Jim the Spider Catcher💥
“On many occasions, no sooner had Freddie gone to the bathroom to clean his teeth before bed than he’d come running out screaming. ‘Spider!’ he’d say. ‘You’ll have to get it out. I can’t do it.’
He was a bit of an arachnophobe: he hated spiders. I’d get up, catch the spider and pop it out of the window. Freddie didn’t like spiders, but he meant them no harm and would never ask me to kill one. He liked me to catch it in a glass or a box and throw it outside.”
-Jim Hutton”
You can see the photo and read the notes right below.