Assault that destroyed my lover Hutchence – by supermodel Helena
HELENA Christensen has revealed for the first time how she witnessed former lover Michael Hutchence spiral out of control after the charismatic rock star suffered a personality changing brain injury.
The supermodel broke two decades of silence last week to reveal that a ‘dark and very angry side’ of the late INXS singer emerged after he hit his head on a kerb when he was punched by a taxi driver during a night out in Copenhagen in 1992.
When told that his brain injury meant he would lose his sense of smell, Christensen said Hutchence broke down, crying: ‘When I have children, I will never be able to smell my baby.’
Christensen, 50, who dated Hutchence in the 1990s when she was one of the world’s top models, said the ‘intoxicatingly good’ star had been her perfect match. ‘He just seemed so joyful. Sweet, deep and emotional, kind, profound and funny. [It was] total mental and physical chemistry,’ she said.
Everything changed in August 1992 after that punch. She said: ‘He was unconscious and there was blood coming out of his mouth and ear. I thought he was dead. We got to the hospital and he woke up and was aggressive. They were trying to make him stay but he was physically pushing them away.’
Hutchence went to her flat but was ‘throwing up most of the time’. She urged him to return to hospital but he was ‘aggressively against it’. The Danish model’s revelations come in documentary Mystify, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Thursday. Christensen couldn’t cope with his mood swings and ended their relationship. Hutchence’s other lovers included Kylie Minogue and Paula Yates, with whom he had a daughter, Tiger Lily.