Chilling moment Paula Yates predicted Michael Hutchence’s death

INXS frontman Michael Hutchence’s partner made an eerie prediction months before the rock star died.

The partner of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence chillingly predicted his death just over a year before he died by suicide.

“This will kill Michael,” British television presenter Paula Yates told her lawyer as she left court following a bitter custody battle with musician Bob Geldof. The custody battle prevented her taking her children, three who she shared with Geldof, to see Hutchence in Australia.

The archive footage was shown in a new documentary about Yates broadcast on Monday on UK broadcaster Channel 4, simply titled Paula.

Yates, herself, died in 2000, three years after Hutchence.

Michael Hutchence with Paula Yates in Sydney.

She was an established face on British television long before she began dating Hutchence.

Yates met Live Aid founder Geldof in the late 1970s. She married him a decade later and they had three children: Peaches, Fifi and Pixie Geldof.

In 1985, she interviewed Hutchence on her Channel 4 music program The Tube, later attending numerous INXS gigs. The pair were thought to already have been in the midst of an affair when, in a now infamous 1994 interview on UK breakfast show The Big Breakfast, she flirted with the rock star on a large bed, wrapping her legs around him.

The next year she left Geldof for Hutchence and in 1996 gave birth to their daughter Tiger Lily.

Yates had hoped to take her children by Geldof to Australia.

But after a discovery of drugs in her London home, Geldof took her to court to get custody of his children and forced the cancellation of her trip.

Paula Yates had been married to Bob Geldof.

In a previously unheard interview with celebrity magazine OK, Yates revealed she and Hutchence were devastated.

“Bob decided against letting the girls go to Australia and so we had to go back into court, and then I couldn’t get to Australia unless I left my girls behind,” she said.

“Michael hated to be away from us. Found it almost unbearable. And I think it was a crushing disappointment when I rang him and told him.

“And it’s funny because I left the court, and I turned to my barrister and I said, ‘This will kill Michael.’”

Peaches Geldof posted this picture on Instagram, of herself as a child being held by mum, Paula Yates, a week before she passed away.

Hutchence would die, in a Sydney hotel room, months later in November 1997. He was 37.

Yates eventually lost majority custody of her three children with Geldof and was only allowed to see them during school holidays.

She died three years later, in 2000, of a heroin overdose on daughter Pixie’s 10th birthday.

Hutchence and Yates’ daughter Tiger Lilly was adopted by Bob Geldof in 2007.

In 2014, Peaches Geldof also died of a heroin overdose.