Elton John was trying desperately to adopt a young Ukrainian baby. Multiple factors, including his sexuality, kept him and David from doing so.
While on Dua Lipa's At Your Service podcast, the singing legend spoke of meeting a 14-month-old, HIV-positive baby named Lev in 2009.
Elton completely fell in love with the child. "I was carrying this little boy around for hours. We had a press conference at the end and they said, 'You seem very fond of this little boy.
Would you think of adopting him?' and I went, 'I'd actually love to!'" Elton recalled saying at the time.There was a problem: The "Rocket Man" icon is gay and married to a man, which automatically made him ineligible to adopt in the European country. "Because I was gay, I wasn't allowed to anyway," he told Dua.
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