Can't get away to carry you today, my life won't let me

We're going to just smile and nod and accept Kylie's explanation for not making good on a promise to join Bono onstage at U2's Sydney gig, returning the "favour" when Bono crashed Kylie's date.

Ms Mingoue suggested she was too whacked out from the dates she'd played to show up.

And any suggestion she didn't want to be walked on leash by Bono as some sort of trophy is unfair.

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