Boy George feels devastated and is mourning the loss of friend Alice Shaw, who had just committed suicide.
The singer took to Twitter to express how he feels about the tragic loss, adding: “My long time friend @alifromdapally took her own life. I am struggling with this. I’m am devastated but I need to say how much I loved her!”
The Everything I Own hitmaker was subsequently sent multiple touching messages from fans and followers.
“I am so incredibly sorry. My cousin took his own life three years ago, so I understand the pain. My heart goes out to you”, while another wrote: “Sending you lots of love at this hard time x,” a fan said.
George replied to a follower describing the situation as “just awful.”
Shaw had written on her own Twitter page several hours earlier: “Please know I am more at peace now than I have been in a very long time and there is nothing anyone could have done.”
Her message was posted along with a picture of a black heart and the caption “Au Revoir Mon.”
The 54-year-old star had recently talked about turning his life around after experiencing ongoing emotional struggles.
He stated: “I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person. I don’t know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.
You have to change the way you look at things. In my case I was taken to the point when I got to such a low place and the way I was dealing with it wasn’t making it any better.”