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By Daily Mail Reporter<\/a>
Last updated at 8:09 AM on 28th April 2011<\/p>\n

A grandmother is usually the first one to visit a newborn, cooing adoringly over the new addition to the family.<\/p>\n

But when Elton John, 64, and partner David Furnish welcomed baby by surrogate Zachary into the world in December, his mother Sheila Farebrother had no idea it was happening.<\/p>\n

And after a three-year rift with her famous son, the 86-year-old says: ‘I have no particular interest really.’<\/p>\n

\"Rift:<\/p>\n

Rift: Elton John’s mother says her famous son, pictured at his Honorary Doctorate ceremony in 2002, has ‘cut her off’ for the last three years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"'No<\/p>\n

‘No interest’: The 86-year-old says has not met her grandson Zachary and was not aware when he was born in December<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘He has cut me off completely,’ she tells the Sun. ‘It happened three years ago this June. He has had nothing to do with me since then.’<\/p>\n

Sources have told the paper that an offensive comment Farebrother made to Elton’s partner David Furnish, 48, was the cause for their fall out.<\/p>\n

She says: ‘I don’t want to go into what caused it. It is a painful subject. My son cut me out of his life for good.’<\/p>\n

\"Fury:<\/p>\n

Fury: An offensive comment made to Elton’s partner David Furnish (left, during an ABC interview with Barbara Walters) is apparently what caused the rift<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But when the paper asked her if her comment to Furnish sparked her son’s anger, she admits: ‘It was something like that, but not exactly. I don’t want to talk about it.’<\/p>\n

David Furnish’s Canadian parents flew to California when the couple’s son Zachary was born via surrogate on Christmas Day, but Mrs Farebrother was not welcome.<\/p>\n

She was there to support them at their civil partnership ceremony in 2005 in Windsor, but according to Mrs Farebrother Elton snubbed his stepfather Fred’s funeral after the family fall out.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Elton John told the paper: ‘I have never had a conversation with him about whether he talks to his mother. She is a lovely lady but she is 86 and she is frail and old.’<\/p>\n

\"'Cut<\/p>\n

‘Cut off’: Mrs Farebrother was there to support the couple at their civil partnership ceremony in 2005<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:09 AM on 28th April 2011 A grandmother is usually the first one to visit a newborn, cooing adoringly over the new addition to the family. But when Elton John, 64, and partner David Furnish welcomed baby by surrogate Zachary into the world in December, his mother Sheila Farebrother had no idea it was happening. And after a three-year rift with her famous son, the 86-year-old says: ‘I have no particular interest really.’ Rift: Elton John’s mother says her famous son, pictured at his Honorary Doctorate ceremony in 2002, has ‘cut her off’ for the last three years ‘No interest’: The 86-year-old says has not met her grandson Zachary and was not aware when he was born in December ‘He has cut me off completely,’ she tells the Sun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"\nElton John's mother Sheila reveals she has not met her son's baby after three-year rift - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/elton-johns-mother-sheila-reveals-she-has-not-met-her-sons-baby-after-three-year-rift\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Elton John's mother Sheila reveals she has not met her son's baby after three-year rift - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:09 AM on 28th April 2011 A grandmother is usually the first one to visit a newborn, cooing adoringly over the new addition to the family. 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