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Elton about meeting Putin to discuss human rights
Thursday, February 11 2016

Elton John says he is willing to risk his life to speak out about human rights abuses as he prepares to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He said it was not just gay rights he was passionate about, as he wanted to leave the world a “good place to live” for the sake of his children. He also told ES magazine he was not embarrassed at being tricked into believing he was speaking to Mr Putin in a prank phone call by two Russian TV presenters last September. He said: “You have to have a sense of humour about these things. The next day the Kremlin got in contact and were extremely embarrassed about the way I’d been treated. And within a couple of days I did have a call from President Putin at my home in Windsor and we had a 10-minute chat. Soon I’m going to go to Moscow to talk to him face to face over a cup of tea — what’s the worst that can happen? It’s not just gay rights. I’ll take on anything and go anywhere to help those in need. I am not afraid."

“I will speak out. What are they going to do to me? If they shoot me, they shoot me. I don’t care. I am a fan of the human being. I don’t like seeing dead children washed up on the beaches of Europe. But I am an optimist. There’s more good in this world than bad.”

Elton paid tribute to David Bowie and revealed that the news of his friend’s death was broken to him in a 3am phone call from his husband David Furnish: “I knew he’d had a heart attack on stage in Berlin years ago, but not about the cancer. Everyone take note of this — Bowie couldn’t have staged a better death. It was classy.”

He said he would love to have a daughter but was “too old” to have any more children. Meanwhile his sons Zachary, five, and Elijah, three, “beat the s**t out of one another”. He added: “I hate being away from my kids. We FaceTime but it’s not the same. They are wonders ... I look forward to being closer to them. That is the way I want my future life to go. I want to give them a childhood they can love, and be a parent they will miss. I want to leave them a good place to live.”

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