Pop star GEORGE MICHAEL credits female fans with his success as a worldwide sex symbol - because they refuse to accept he's a gay man.
The 45-year-old singer was forced to declare his sexual preference following his 1998 arrest for propositioning a male police officer in a public bathroom in Los Angeles.
But women fans don't seem to care.
He says, "Women seem to ignore the fact that I'm gay. I think that women really get the feeling that I understand them. I grew up with two sisters, I went out with women when I was younger. I do understand them, unfortunately."