Netflix's three-part docuseries chronicling the remarkable life and career of Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue, 57, has landed today (Wednesday, 20th May), lifting the lid on her extraordinary journey like never before.
From her meteoric rise to fame with her breakthrough role on Neighbours and her multi-platinum music career, to her turbulent relationship history and two devastating cancer diagnoses, this definitive documentary is essential viewing for the Princess of Pop's most devoted fans.
In candid, exclusive interviews with the legend herself, Kylie offers fresh insight into her past romances, including those with Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan and French actor Olivier Martinez.
Yet no relationship has left quite such a lasting impression as her two-year romance with the late INXS band member Michael Hutchence. Here, we explore the real reasons behind their heartbreaking split, reports the Mirror.
Kylie and Michael embarked on their relationship in 1989, just a few months after her separation from Neighbours star Jason.
She was 21 when she first encountered 29-year-old Michael backstage at an INXS concert during their world tour promoting their album Kick in 1988.
It was actually Kylie's then-boyfriend Jason who purchased their VIP tickets, and he instantly noticed the spark between her and the charismatic frontman.
"I wasn't the only one to notice the buzz between Kylie and Michael that night," he wrote in his autobiography Between the Lines. "I'd noticed him staring at her when we met backstage. He kept whispering in her hair and she kept laughing."
Beginning their romance shortly after her separation from Jason, Kylie characterised their connection as "profound" and acknowledges in her new Netflix series that she's yet to experience love of comparable depth.
30 years after his death in 1997 aged just 37, Kylie reveals she continues to feel Michael "with" her, describing him as the one man who encouraged her to discover her true self.
"We were good together," she recalled. "You go on and live your lives but it was definitely an amazing point in time and I have probably been looking for something like that ever since and I haven't got it."
Kylie and Michael parted ways after merely two years together, and she has subsequently suggested their gruelling schedules created the tension that ultimately ended their relationship.
In the 2019 documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, she characterised their romance as "doomed" and reflected: "Was it work, was it the drugs? I don't know. He was like a broken man."
Discussing their hectic lifestyles further, she added: "Michael was touring all over the world so it became really hard to see each other. I would send video messages to him, but it became more and more difficult.
"He was the first in so many ways. And of those firsts was heartbreak. I was devastated."
KYLIE is available to stream on Netflix.
