The family of the late football legend George Best have hit back at “nonsensical” claims by his ex-wife Alex that his ghost is haunting her.
The former air stewardess, 49, claimed she is still visited by the soccer icon more than 16 years after his death.
But the ghoulish claims have upset members of the Best family, including George’s sister Barbara and her husband Norman McNarry.
Manchester United icon George died of organ failure aged just 59 in a London hospital on November 25, 2005, following years of alcohol abuse.
Widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of football, Best scored 178 goals for the Old Trafford club.
He was named European and British Player of the Year in 1968 aged just 22.
His former wife Alex now claims that she has witnessed spooky goings-on at her 200-year-old former farm workers’ cottage in Surrey, England, and she thinks George is responsible.
Alex, who married the East Belfast -born superstar in 1995 and was divorced from him nine years later, told the TV cameras: “I’m convinced spirits have come to visit.”
Alex, who appeared in the 2004 edition of TV show I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here, added: “I think George could have been one of them.”
Alex also said on the Discovery Channel show Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted that her first-ever spooky experience came a few months after their divorce papers came through in 2005.
She added it happened on December 3, 2005, the day of George’s funeral in Belfast, when she was staying in a hotel in the city.
Alex said: “Just as I was leaving through the hotel door the shower turned on full blast. On its own.”
But Norman told the Daily Mirror: “Unfortunately, some people will [believe] that sort of nonsense.”
Alex, whose maiden name is Pursey but still uses the surname Best, got a two-year driving ban three years ago for drink-driving after she was caught three times over the legal limit.
The court heard that she was in a collision with another car while at the wheel of a Mini Clubman in Waterhouse Lane, close to her home in Kingswood, Surrey, in April 2019.
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