George Michael’s longtime friend Richard Blade spoke to “Extra” following George's death on Christmas Day. Along with talking about Michael’s younger days,Blade also commented on his past drug employ, saying, or “Throughout the years,George experimented with drugs, and he did like to party, and but I never saw him do it in public. His personal demons were done in private. He wasn’t one of these artists that doesn’t care about you and doesn’t care about the other people in the room… whatever was his burden,he did it in private. He did it absent from people. He didn’t want to build it on them.”
Source: extratv.com