WHY TIGER LILY'S VANISHED

Michael Hutchence's daughter hasn't been seen in public for years

In the wake of a new documentary airing in the UK about her parents’ troubled lives, Tiger Lily Hutchence appears to have vanished from public life, possibly for good.

Two years after last being pictured, Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates’ 26-year-old daughter recently doubled down on her insistence that she will remain far away from the spotlight – and friends tell Woman’s Day she is unlikely to resurface any time soon.

“Tiger prefers a low-key life,” says one mate. “She has no interest in becoming famous like her parents were and even though she’s a singer, it’s more a hobby for her than a career. The world is full of regular reminders that she would never want any part in Michael or Paula’s world.”

A trigger of her parents’ tragic lives came again recently, when the two-part series Paula aired in the UK, featuring never-before-heard tapes of the music journalist making heartbreaking confessions to a friend, including eerily predicting Michael’s own untimely death.

The documentary sees Paula, who died of a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41, recalling the moment she had to call Michael and tell him she and baby Tiger were unable to travel to Australia due to her custody battle with ex-husband Sir Bob Geldof over their three daughters. She is heard recounting to her lawyer, “This will kill him.”

Michael was found dead by suicide, aged 37, in a Sydney hotel room not long afterwards.