CLAIM: George Michael Getting Drunk and Bullied Behind Bars

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Yesterday, the Sunday Mirror ran an article that claimed George Michael was being bullied, getting drunk, and receiving special treatment behind bars.

According to the tab, the singer “was a sobbing, quivering wreck when he was first imprisoned,” and the other inmates saw him as someone they “could rough up and intimidate” — that is, until he got another prisoner to be his bodyguard.

The paper also claimed, Michael has been drinking prison “hooch,” and once “got so drunk he stripped off and paraded around naked.”

Additionally, the Mirror’s so-called “source” of information says, “It’s like there is one rule for him and another for everyone else.”

Really?

No.

And Michael is so angry about the tabloid’s inaccurate reporting that he’s mulling a lawsuit.

In a statement issued by Michael – and sent to Gossip Cop – he says: “Believe me when I tell you that in the last three weeks there have been no tears, no anxiety, no bullying… On the contrary, I have been treated with kindness by fellow in-mates and prison staff alike and as far as I can tell, have received no special treatment of any kind whatsoever. Unless of course some of the guys here are letting me win at the pool table.”

Michael, who noted that he’s been passing his jail time reading fan mail, adds, “As far as running around this place ‘naked’ and ‘drunk on ‘Hooch’ with an inmate for a bodyguard, let’s just say that the Sunday Mirror will be hearing from my lawyers very shortly.”

In September, Michael was sentenced to 8 weeks in jail, stemming from an arrest in July when he plowed his Range Rover into a one-hour photo shop in London while under the influence of drugs.

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