The man who discovered Philip Seymour Hoffman's body was involved in a gay affair with him, according to an explosive new interview.
Playwright David Bar Katz has spoken to the National Enquirer to allege that the troubled actor was his lover and that he saw him freebasing cocaine the night before he died in his West Village drugs den, UK MailOnline reported.
The tragic Oscar winner's relationship with the mother of his three children, Mimi O'Donnell was affected due to his confusion over his sexual identity. This further fueled the troubled actor's destructive spiral into drug addiction.
"We were homosexual lovers. We had a relationship," said David Bar Katz to the National Enquirer on Wednesday.
Katz claimed that he had seen the drug addled actor take heroin on a number of occasions, "but I never thought his addiction had reached that level," claimed Katz.
"We were planning to go to the Super Bowl together and have a really nice day. This is so terrible."
According to UK MailOnline, Katz's first and only statement up until today in relation to his long-time friend, Hoffman's, death is in contradiction with this new interview.
Katz claimed to be shocked at the circumstances when he found Hoffman in his underwear with a needle sticking out of his left arm on his bathroom floor on Monday.
"I saw him last week, and he was clean and sober, his old self," said David Bar Katz, who found Hoffman along with the actor's personal assistant, Isabella Wing-Davey and called 911. "I really thought this chapter was over."
Before his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman had been known as a loyal father and a loving partner. The staggering claims from the National Enquirer are in stark contrast to his public image, UK MailOnline reported.
"Despite being notoriously private about his personal life, he was a regular figure around the $4.4 million West Village apartment he lived in with his partner of 14-years, Mimi, 46, and his three children, Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7 and Willa, 5," UK MailOnline reported.
Neighbors reported him to be friendly and unassuming and unlike other, more high-maintenance celebrities who live the area.
Hoffman, however, admitted to a complete stranger two weeks ago that he was a heroin addict and just before Christmas told another stranger on the street that his addiction would kill him, UK MailOnline reported.
Despite going to rehab in May last year due to his relapse, his friends said that the star was unable to stay clean.
Hoffman's confusion over his sexual identity was responsible for the end of his 14-year relationship with O'Donnell before the holidays, friends said.
"Philip fell back into heavy drug use soon after he got out of rehab and he never stopped using," said another source close to the family to the National Enquirer. "His drug use, and his ambivalence over whether he was straight or gay, drove a wedge between him and Mimi and broke them up."
The source continued, "One part of him wanted a normal family life while another part wanted heroin and the gay life. Philip moved to Greenwich Village because it is the center of New York's gay community. The kids stayed with Mimi, but Philip saw them all the time."
Hoffman met O'Donnell in 1999 on the set of the play, "In Arabia We'd All Be Kings," where she was working as a costume designer, UK MailOnline reported.
