Elton's Aids Heartbreak!

Remorseful star hospitalized with mysterious bug.

BATTLING a potentially fatal mystery bug has reminded Elton John of his heartbreaking regret — he shamefully failed to do his all for dying friends when they were stricken with deadly AIDS!

The 70-year-old Rocket Man’s current health crisis, a puzzling “bacterial infection” that’s forced him to cancel his shows at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace, has made him recall how he narrowly escaped contracting the killer AIDS virus — while ignoring calls to help in the fight against the disease once known as “the gay plague.”