Kylie Minogue was the petite pop princess from Down Under who was pure while Michael Hutchence was the rock god front man of INXS. Together they were a dynamite coupling.
Kylie and Michael may have seemed an unlikely pairing but the Aussie duo's whirlwind romance changed Kylie for good and speaking in a documentary about Michael's life, she has lifted the lid on their relationship.
Between 1989 and 1991, Kylie believes Michael helped her transform from a innocent chart-topping pop singer into a sex-vamp ready to unleash her new persona upon the world.
What happened in those two years had a profound effect on Kylie's outlook and life choices and she described her time with the INXS singer as a "a dark bad boy and I was the pure good girl".
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The explosive film, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, documents his life and has contributions from those involved, until he committed suicide in a Sydney hotel room on November 22, 1997.
Speaking to the filmmakers, 50-year-old Kylie said: "Sex, love, food, drugs, music, travel, books, you name it, he wanted to experience it.
"As his partner I got to experience a lot of that as well. If you’re a sensual being, all of your senses need stimulation. He definitely awakened my desire for things in my world."
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There was nothing much that was 'off limits' and Kylie recalled a moment in which she 'joined the mile high club' in the sight of Australia's Prime Minister.
Hiding under a blanket on a Qantas flight, Kylie and Michael enjoyed a little carnal interaction, just feet away from Bob Hawke.
Kylie first met Michael when she went to an INXS gig and he invited her back to his hotel afterwards.
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This was the start of an unlikely relationship, in which Kylie said she felt "very safe" and "protected" despite Michael's chaotic lifestyle.
It was her willingness to try something new that seemed to fit in with his desire to experience all that he could.
Kylie recalls: “He had insatiable curiosity, all the good things in life and some the bad.
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“He opened up a whole new world for me. A lot of it was based around pleasure, let’s face it. It felt loving, yet sad, but was probably doomed."
By 1991 though the short fuse of their relationship had reached its end Kylie said Michael was a 'broken man' by the end of it.
Kylie didn't divulge what had ultimately brought an end to their wild affair, but she did fly across the world from Tokyo to New York so that she could end it in person.
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The pop singer said: "He was on all fours on the floor crying. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know what was happening. I just know he was a broken man.
"I’d never seen any man like that before. I left pretty confounded and destroyed and knew that was it."
Despite being the one that called time on their relationship, Kylie said that she was 'heartbroken'.
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Kylie continued: "He broke my heart. I have to confess that the hurt stayed for quite a long time."
It was shortly after their split that Michael met Danish supermodel Helena Christensen, and his rollercoaster life adventure was up and running again.
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