Like many
doting fathers, Sir Elton John tells his sons he loves them every day.
But the gesture is more important for him than for most.
The singer says he has been spurred on to shower them with affection because he received none from his own father.
Sir
Elton took a swipe at his late father Stanley Dwight while giving a
speech in which he said a lack of love had led him to drink and drugs.
The
68-year-old said his father ‘never told me that he loved me ever’ but
that with his sons ‘I never stop telling them I love them, and they
never stop telling me they love me’.
He
said their words prove he is doing ‘a good job’ in raising Zachary,
four, and two-year-old Elijah with husband David Furnish, 53. The
children were born to a surrogate mother.
Sir
Elton, who has not spoken to his 90-year-old mother Sheila Farebrother
for seven years, made his comments while addressing students at the
Oxford Union.
He
said that he would not like his boys to grow up in the ‘horrible era’
of the 1950s, where men were taught to suppress their feelings.
Speaking
of his father, who died in 1991, said: ‘He never told me he loved me,
he didn’t hold me, and he didn’t come to see me perform.
Sir Elton (right) took a swipe at his late father Stanley Dwight (left,
with his three sons from his second marriage)
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