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It's pretty long, the part in which he talks about MJ is at the end.

http://www.dailymail...lastonbury.html

'There was something seriously wrong with Michael Jackson. But this is Hollywood': Lionel Richie on his friend, dating younger women and playing Glastonbury

At his Beverly Hills home on the morning that the 2015 Glastonbury line-up is announced, Lionel Richie takes an al fresco dip in his Roman-style pool.
In full festival spirit, he dives in as naked as the day he was born.
‘I decided not to put on any swimming trunks,’ reveals the 65-year-old superstar singer and songwriter, who has sold more than 100 million albums, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
‘I can do that here. Anywhere else and it would be all over the internet.’
He frowns at the thought. ‘Although I don’t know for how long. Folks can only take so much… exposure.’
A few hours after his nude plunge, Richie has towelled off, dressed in skinny jeans, taupe T-shirt and a stylish summer scarf and is busily erecting a one-man tent on the manicured front lawn of his 28-room Italianate mansion for a light-hearted photograph.
‘Don’t worry, I was a Boy Scout,’ he declares, fiddling with a recalcitrant flap.
‘Camping was the best fun in the world until I was taking down the tent one day and discovered that I had been living with a snake for two nights.
‘He’d been hiding in the pine straw I’d put down underneath my sleeping bag.
'Full-on black-water moccasin, venomous – maybe won’t kill you but a bite is going to hurt like hell. I went out the tent sideways, didn’t wait to use the front door, took the whole thing with me.’

Later this afternoon, Richie will frankly discuss his daughter Nicole’s painful issues with drug addiction, her troubled godfather Michael Jackson, his problem with Kanye West, the ‘craziness’ of his first wife assaulting him and, improbably, the captain of Chelsea, John Terry.
But right now, Richie has a big summertime gig in Somerset on his mind.
He will play the prestigious Sunday teatime ‘legend’ slot at this year’s Glastonbury, following in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Paul Simon.
‘Glastonbury is a big deal for me,’ he says, essaying the correct pronunciation of the place name, and not ‘Glastonberry’, as often preferred by his fellow Americans.
‘My God, it’s bigger than anything that ever lived. It’s like Coachella (the biggest U.S. festival) on steroids.
‘To put it in some kind of perspective, I’m as excited about Glastonbury as the first time The Commodores played Madison Square Gardens. It could be a career re-defining thing.’
Lionel Richie’s career, first with The Commodores, then for 33 years a solo artist, has already been defined by some unforgettable hit records.
The ballads: Say You, Say Me, Three Times A Lady, Hello, Still, Truly, Easy, Endless Love. And the jaunty toe- tappers: All Night Long, Dancing On The Ceiling, Running With The Night, Brick House.
Music has made Richie a wealthy man. He has enjoyed six No 1 hits in the US and UK and co-wrote We Are The World with Michael Jackson, one of the biggest-selling singles in history.
His Eighties albums Can’t Slow Down and Dancing On The Ceiling were among that decade’s most successful, earning him a personal fortune estimated at over $200 million.

This astounding achievement, Richie simply puts down to ‘all those years spent writing, writing, writing’.
He promises to play most, if not all, of his best-loved songs at Glastonbury.
‘I just hope people still want them,’ says Richie, proof that he ‘can worry about anything and everything’.
His UK concerts this year suggested that not only do Richie’s British fans still appreciate his songwriting skills but they’re more than partial to a portion of Lionel the lover man. Is he aware of the raw sexual desire he promotes?
‘As long as people don’t use ‘Richie’ in their last name,’ he shrugs drolly. ‘They can do whatever they want.’
Ever the showbiz pro, Richie remains tight-lipped about the prospect of any shocks or surprises at Glastonbury.
‘I’m just hoping I don’t get any electric shocks,’ he half-jokes. ‘The stage is covered, right?’
Down in the sun-drenched garden, Lisa Parigi, Richie’s girlfriend of two years, has her own Glastonbury concerns.
Should she wear Burberry wellies to the festival or customise her own pair with sequins? Sitting in the shade of an olive tree, she looks down at her fragile Jimmy Choos.
‘I can’t wear these,’ she frets. ‘They’d be gone in seconds.’
Roughly half Richie’s age, the striking Swiss-Chinese former model who speaks four languages and is CEO of a company that specialises in high-quality lip gloss and aromatic oils, asks the question weighing on everyone’s minds: ‘Do you think it will rain at Glastonbury?’

Up by the pool, Richie ponders the pros and cons of dating a younger woman.
‘The upside is that you’ll never, ever be unhip,’ says Richie, reaching for a fashionable camouflage jacket.
‘They keep you current and you have to keep up. The downside is that you’ll mention names like Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles and they’ll say, “Who’s that?”
‘And you can’t have a political barbershop argument about, say, the Civil Rights Movement because their point of reference is the cell phone.’
There may never be a more appropriate moment to ask if he has ever considered the idea of marketing Lionel Richie’s All Night Long Viagra?
‘Let me tell you something,’ he says, with such a poker face it’s impossible to tell whether or not he’s being serious.
‘I’m working on that right now, it’s at the experimental stage. I have a prototype but I need to perfect the formula before it kills me.’
To back this up, Richie says the Earth moved for Lisa last night, even though it was nothing to do with him.

‘She was like: “Did you feel that?” Fortunately, the Guggenheims, who built this house back in 1929, poured blocks of concrete in around the foundations to earthquake-proof it. So it can shake all it wants but it won’t break up.’‘She is from Switzerland and hadn’t experienced an earthquake before,’ he grins, referring to the previous evening’s 3.5-magnitude tremor that gently rocked LA.
Back inside the reassuringly reinforced building, Richie teases out a new tune at his beloved Bösendorfer grand piano in the palatial reception room.
There are photographs of family and eminent friends at every turn.
A snap of Richie with an obviously starstruck Barack and Michelle Obama sits in pride of place on the hallway table.
Shelves groan with trophies including an Oscar (for Say You, Say Me, 1985), four Grammys and a Golden Globe.
Richie confesses that he had to put his gongs out of reach upon finding his Academy Award being used as a makeshift playroom doorstop.
Stuffed with trinkets from his travels, the library and billiard room are home to dark religious canvases, a touching bronze sculpture of Richie and his father’s hands intertwined and a pair of abstract paintings by late jazz legend Miles Davis.
Dramatic staircases, carved ceilings, Louis XVI fireplaces, medieval tapestries, Byzantine brocade curtains and forests of antique furniture suggest a man of wealth and taste. The antique rug acreage is daunting, the French marble surfaces dazzling.
‘We were going to buy the house down from Clooney’s place on Lake Como,’ Richie comments casually. ‘But then I figured, how many times am I going to get out there? So we got this and made it our home.
‘This is where I come back to, it’s my favourite vacation location – a place where I chill and meditate. I don’t have too many parties here.’
Although one memorable party he did throw was to celebrate the wedding of his eldest, Nicole, in 2010.
Now 33, the socialite turned TV star married U.S. rock band Good Charlotte’s lead singer Joel Madden, now father of her two children, daughter Harlow, seven, and six-year-old son Sparrow.
It was a typically lavish bash. There was, however, an elephant in the room and it wasn’t Nicole’s widely publicised drug problem (she was arrested for heroin possession and entered rehab in 2003).
The elephant was in fact of the real, Indian variety – a complete surprise that Lionel had arranged for his daughter’s wedding.
In the past decade, Nicole’s celebrity has frequently threatened to eclipse her famous father’s as her MTV show, The Simple Life, soared in the ratings, its 2003 premiere netting more than 13 million viewers. Her popular VH1 series, Candidly Nicole, has just started its second season in the States.

‘I remember her coming to me and saying that she and Paris [Hilton] had a reality show,’ Richie remembers.
‘I said, “That’s fantastic”. Then she told me, “We play these spoilt rich girls from Beverly Hills who make fun of everyone we meet.” Oh. “And we’re going to film it in your house.”
Richie legally adopted Nicole in 1990. Her biological father was Peter Michael Escovedo, a musician who briefly played in Richie’s band during the early Eighties; her mother, Karen Moss, worked as an assistant to Nicole’s aunt, the drummer Sheila E.
As neither parent was financially able to support a child, Lionel and his then-wife Brenda Harvey became Nicole’s guardian when she was three.
‘I love it when people ask if am I Nicole Richie’s dad,’ Richie beams. ‘Because I am, proudly.
‘You should see the woman she is now. She’s a mother and a designer, and sometimes I must admit I am like, “Who are we talking about? Is this the same person?”
‘Nicole has come so far. I love her because she just changed direction in life and she did it firmly and with conviction.’
Fearing that her use of hard drugs had spiralled out of control, and terrified she might die at the age of 21 – “She was in a dark tunnel,” Richie says quietly – Nicole turned to her father for help and subsequently received treatment at the tough Sierra Tuscon centre in Arizona.
But Richie, who supportively stayed at the rehab facility during Nicole’s initial visit, knows that you are never fully out of the woods where addiction is concerned.
‘She’s in this business and until you’re out of this business you’re not out of harm’s way. So,’ he taps on a slatted shutter, ‘knock on wood.’
Richie maintains that he has escaped any form of dependency himself because he doesn’t have an addictive personality.
'Smoking I had to give up because it made my throat and voice crusty. Alcohol and drugs are not my thing. I like champagne and I’ve been crazy, but never to the extent where I was rehab material.’
But his life has not been without turmoil. He has been married twice, his first marriage to Brenda Harvey finishing after 18 years with some serious fireworks.
‘I married my girlfriend from college,’ he says now. ‘I stuck with what I knew but even that ended in craziness…’
In June 1988, having separated from Harvey, Richie was discovered in a Beverly Hills apartment with his new girlfriend Diane Alexander: both were physically attacked by his former partner. Harvey was arrested for trespass, assault, vandalism and ‘corporal injury to a spouse’. She and Richie divorced in 1993.
He wed Alexander two years later and had two children, Miles, now 20, and Sofia, 16. The couple split after almost a decade of marriage in 2004.
Richie respectfully sidesteps these more traumatic times today, preferring to focus on the positive.
Relaxing on scatter cushions in his bijou poolhouse, he offers iced tea and wholemeal biscuits.


‘Full of roughage,’ he insists. ‘Good for the colon.’
They must be working – the strapping showman is in fine fettle: skin glowing, eyes gleaming, teeth visible from space.
Changing shirts for the photo shoot, he reveals a sportsman’s torso, maintained by light workouts with a personal trainer and a hyperkinetic two-hour show when touring.
He talks with all the charm and energy of his live performances, a Southern gentleman for sure.
Richie was raised in Tuskagee, Alabama, and was aware of the cultural significance of skin colour from an early age. Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks, who famously refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, was born there.
The Tuskagee Airmen were the first black pilots to fight in World War II.
Tuskagee Institute, later University, which Richie attended and where The Commodores formed on campus, is a centre of excellence for African-American education.
So Richie is interested to learn that Chelsea defender and former England captain John Terry, who received a ban from the FA for using racist language in 2012, attended a concert of his in London last month.
‘Really?’ the singer says thoughtfully, then stands, raising his voice like a preacher.
‘Music is a mysterious truth serum. I can go into a roomful of guys – number-one bigot there, number-one racist there – and I can guarantee you that they all got married to Three Times A Lady. Go figure.
‘I could have half the Klan in the first five rows of a show and they’d all be ‘Love ya, Lionel’ and singing along to Dancing On The Ceiling.’
Can Richie recollect the last time he directly experienced racism?

‘“Get back in your car, n****r”’, he shoots back.
‘That was 1970. The guys in the band were like, “C’mon, let’s go” but I was saying, “Did you hear what he called us?” They’re going, “Rich, get back in the fricking car, are you nuts?” Turned out he was a deputy sheriff, in a plaid shirt – a police officer.’
Another more recent race-related issue that seemed to upset Richie was during Kanye West’s appearance at this year’s Brit Awards.
‘I wasn’t upset but…’ Richie drops his arms in exasperation. ‘I wasn’t exactly elated.’
It was West’s repeated use of the n-word in his performance that Richie objected to.
He made his feelings plain on the night, saying, ‘I don’t think it’s OK for a black man to use the n-word. I don’t like it – and I am a black man.
‘I don’t agree with throwing that word around like it means nothing,’ he sighs, adding that ‘good people fought hard’ to eradicate it from the language.
Richie is equally forthright about the industry he works in, delivering a grim warning to any wide-eyed winners of TV talent shows.
‘This business is designed to kill you,’ he says evenly.
‘Elvis had a roomful of his close friends downstairs while he died upstairs. If you’ve got a drug problem they’re waiting for you to die. One month, maybe a year. Then they’re looking at you dying.’


He speaks from experience. He first met Michael Jackson when the tragic entertainer was nine years old, cementing their friendship as The Commodores supported The Jackson 5 in the early Seventies.
‘Michael never got to hang out as a kid,’ says Richie in an attempt to explain Jackson’s complex personality.
‘So as he got older he was hanging out with the only people he felt comfortable with, and that was the kids. I get that when you’re 19, maybe 22, but when you get to be 40 it doesn’t fly.
‘Some times you’d walk in at Michael’s and there’d be 25 kids all watching a Disney film. Kids loved it – Nicole’s favourite hangout in the world was Michael’s. He was her godfather.’
How did Richie react when the news of the child abuse allegations about Jackson broke?
‘I freaked out,’ he says, earnestly. ‘But Michael didn’t know how to fight and he never saw the news, didn’t watch TV, had no clue about current events. Even when he was the news.’
But the kids, the menagerie, the relentless plastic surgery. As a friend, did he ever take him to one side and say, ‘Michael, this is all a bit weird’?
‘Every time I saw him,’ he exhales. ‘There was something seriously wrong with Michael. But you have to understand that this is Hollywood so you can’t use the word “weird”.
'In Des Moines, Illinois, you’d get locked up; in Hollywood it’s just another day.
'So if you want to employ staff to look after your chimpanzee and your giraffes, then that’s perfectly normal.’
Taking a draught of iced tea and plucking a stray sliver of mint from his trademark moustache, Richie recalls an example of what Jackson believed to be ‘normal’.
‘We’re writing We Are The World in Michael’s bedroom,’ he begins, setting the scene.
‘I’m sitting on the floor because Michael doesn’t have a bed, he sleeps on the floor.
'But he’s got his records all lined up around the perimeter of the room and I see one of them move, and then I hear this terrible, terrifying hissing sound.
‘I’m looking at this snake with a head the size of a dog and his mouth is open. Michael goes, “He wants to play with you, Lionel.” I’m screaming like the last crazy woman in a horror movie.
‘And Michael’s saying, “Come on, let’s finish these lyrics” and I’m like, “I’ll do that right after I’ve changed my underwear!”
‘I last saw Michael about a week before he died. He was really thin, really not healthy, really not capable of making that tour.
‘The heartbreaking irony of Michael Jackson is that we used to always say, “We’ll never get involved with drugs”. And he died of just that.’


Richie strolls down to the imposing front gate as the sun slips down behind Sunset Boulevard. Looking up at his lovingly replenished Beverly Hills homestead, does he ever think, ‘I don’t deserve this?’
‘Absolutely not!’ hollers Richie with fake indignation.
‘I’ve worked damn hard for this. Don’t even think about it.’
His mood lightens further when asked if the man they once called ‘the black Barry Manilow’ has anything he’d like to share before his Glastonbury outing.
‘I’m happy being known as the King Of Hearts,’ Richie chuckles contentedly. ‘And that’s all I want to be.’
 
Piss off Lionel :beee:

I'm going to have to change my cleaning music from Lionel to someone else.

Must he promote his upcoming Glastonbury gig by throwing MJ under the bus? Could he not find anything interesting to say about himself for promotional purposes, so he dragged MJ in to his interview, gobshite.

‘I freaked out,’ he says, earnestly. ‘But Michael didn’t know how to fight and he never saw the news, didn’t watch TV, had no clue about current events. Even when he was the news.’

Michael had plenty of clue about current events, he just didn't bother reading tabloids. Tabloid and news paper are 2 different things.
 
He was really thin, really not healthy

Michael was even thinner during the 80's. So I guess he was unhealthy back then too

And I think that Michael could have done all 50 shows for This Is It. What people forget is that for those shows Michael was taking about 2-3 days off in between each show, and then he was going to have about a 3 month break in between it all. He was also playing in one place, so it's not like he had to deal with jet lag and different time zones. The way some people talk you'd think that Michael was going to perform 50 nights in a row. But that wasn't true
 
I see people on twitter say Lionel has been trashing Michael since 2009 but I don't remember anything in that level and I'm very surprised he used such harsh words about him. I also remember his interview from early 2009 (before June) where he talks about his conversation with Michael about the shows, he said he encouraged Michael to do TII and told him people don't die from what they do on stage. Lionel is losing it.
 
Someone's desperate to stay relevant. Probably still ticked that MJ gets most of the credit for "We Are The World".
Brenda Harvie Ritchie called him out on her twitter saying it was all lies and that she was very angry.
If you have to bash someone to gain attention for yourself than you were never much to begin with.
 
I honestly don't think this is bashing..he is probably more honest about his opinion.
I would have run from the room and never gone back inside.

To me, his tone suggests somebody who cares rather than intent on bashing.
 
Brenda Harvey Richie @BrendaRichie · 6h 6 hours ago
I am too angry to comment on anything @LionelRichie said in his UK article! ��

Brenda Harvey Richie @BrendaRichie · 4h 4 hours ago
I will say this: @LionelRichie UK article is filled with Lies.
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Brenda doesn't necessary mean MJ bit is lies, but it could mean Lionel lied about other things in his interview.
Still, I could barely forgive him saying in one interview that MJ's kids have better chance to be normal now that Michael is dead. He makes Mike sound like he wasn't aware of what was going on in the world. Mr Richie has not listened MJ's songs if he doesn't know how aware of MJ was world issues, including his own issues.

He has been in business long enough to know that he doesn't have to voice everything what is going on in his head.
 
Hes got the same disease as quincy and john landis.. i debated whether to click on this cause i knew hed be attention seaking. yeap hes been talking crap about mj since 09. joinging wirh the family mantra of the kids are better off now. has paris stopped hanging out with his daughter talk about toys and prams come to mind

Someone's desperate to stay relevant. Probably still ticked that MJ gets most of the credit for "We Are The World".
Brenda Harvie Ritchie called him out on her twitter saying it was all lies and that she was very angry.
If you have to bash someone to gain attention for yourself than you were never much to begin with.
 
Must he promote his upcoming Glastonbury gig by throwing MJ under the bus? Could he not find anything interesting to say about himself for promotional purposes, so he dragged MJ in to his interview, gobshite.
Difficult to be absolutely sure in a print interview but i got the impression that it was the interviewer who was v keen to shoehorn mj into the story. Why did the mail bring up mj's child abuse allegations?? - the conversaton was all about the pressures of fame and the music biz, I'm sick of their agenda. Ritchie could have been a little more supportive rather than just a 'i freaked out'. Seriously, is it just mrs j and tmez who talk about mj's innocence.
 
Glad Brenda Harvey Richie called his behind out on that, if Lionel said any of it. The Dailymail is a tabloid so it's possible they have embellished some but MJ didn't die of 'drugs' he died because he was murdered by a doctor. Where was Lionel during the trial and the Murray conviction? and again if MJ didn't look well or looked extremely frail and thin why the hell didn't he or anyone else around MJ that cared do or say anything?
 
Bonnie Blue;4088019 said:
Difficult to be absolutely sure in a print interview but i got the impression that it was the interviewer who was v keen to shoehorn mj into the story. Why did the mail bring up mj's child abuse allegations?? - the conversaton was all about the pressures of fame and the music biz, I'm sick of their agenda. Ritchie could have been a little more supportive rather than just a 'i freaked out'. Seriously, is it just mrs j and tmez who talk about mj's innocence.

Daily mail cannot resit to ask everyones opinion of MJ, but it is up to these people to keep their opinions to themselves or air them.

I'm yet to see or hear from MJ "friend" or "collaborator" who says to these tabloid writers that "lets talk about my up-coming gig, and it is/was Michael's own business whether or not he had cosmetic surgery"

But the kids, the menagerie, the relentless plastic surgery. As a friend, did he ever take him to one side and say, ‘Michael, this is all a bit weird’?
‘Every time I saw him,’ he exhales. ‘There was something seriously wrong with Michael. But you have to understand that this is Hollywood so you can’t use the word “weird”.


Double piss off to Lionel:angry:
There is seriously wrong with these people who cannot keep their opinion to themselves. Hopefully PPB never read his comments of their dad.
 
Bubs;4088031 said:
Daily mail cannot resit to ask everyones opinion of MJ, but it is up to these people to keep their opinions to themselves or air them.

I'm yet to see or hear from MJ "friend" or "collaborator" who says to these tabloid writers that "lets talk about my up-coming gig, and it is/was Michael's own business whether or not he had cosmetic surgery"

But the kids, the menagerie, the relentless plastic surgery. As a friend, did he ever take him to one side and say, ‘Michael, this is all a bit weird’?
‘Every time I saw him,’ he exhales. ‘There was something seriously wrong with Michael. But you have to understand that this is Hollywood so you can’t use the word “weird”.


Double piss off to Lionel:angry:
There is seriously wrong with these people who cannot keep their opinion to themselves. Hopefully PPB never read his comments of their dad.


Yep and if he said it shame on him..
 
This is the reason they should keep their opinion of MJ to themselves or be more careful what they say:(
They just add more fuel to tabloids stories of MJ. I suppose by the evening, there is going to be a lot more tabloid headlines of how weird MJ was.

Lionel Richie: 'Something Was Seriously Wrong With Michael Jackson'
Contactmusic.com-13 minutes ago
Veteran Singer Lionel Richie Feared There Was Something "Seriously Wrong" With His Pal Michael Jackson But Still Blames The Bright Lights ...
 
‘Every time I saw him,’ he exhales. ‘There was something seriously wrong with Michael.

There must be something wrong with a man who took sick, sometimes dying children to his home , making room for their beds, letting them escape from the illness for a moment.
 
I don't think he says anything really bad. Sometimes fans get angry for nothing.
 
I don't think he says anything really bad. Sometimes fans get angry for nothing.

I do agree with you about that in general but he went too far this time. "Something was seriously wrong with him". MJ spent his whole life donating money to the less fortunate, caring for sick children, renting out his home, visiting orphanages and children's hospitals bearing gifts and presents and tons of other stuff.

Yes indeed, something was seriously wrong with him. I guess that's his personal opinion and he is entitled to that.
 
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Galactus123;4088050 said:
I don't think he says anything really bad. Sometimes fans get angry for nothing.

Really!
This is the result of his interview


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Richie: Something was seriously wrong with Michael Jackson
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Lionel Richie: 'Something Was Seriously Wrong With Michael Jackson'
Contactmusic.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
Richie is also convinced Jackson would never have been able to complete the ambitious run of 50 comeback concerts in London that he was preparing for when he passed away, adding, "I last saw Michael about a week before he died. He was really thin, ...


and so on.
 
Lionel deserves all the bashing he gets for this... and if something was wrong why the hell didn't he help his friend? same with MJ's 'family' and 'beloved' Mother?? why didn't she ever notice anything wrong with her son and if she did what did she do to help? If he was so thin and sickly a week before he died why didn't anyone step in and stop it if there was so much concern? Mike's mother saw him she didn't seem too worried did she?
 
Lionel another traitor. He better join the queue. I don't get why he and landis and Quincy feel the need to trash Michaels memory to feel better about their own lives.
Say more about them than anything els. Not classy.
 
Brenda Harvey Richie @BrendaRichie ·
No I can't...I am just as shocked and disappointed as everyone else!

Melanie321 @Mellie4Justice
@BrendaRichie can u shed some light on WHY Lionel would betray his "good friend" Michael Jackson, a man who is not here to defend himself ?
 
I don't think he says anything really bad. Sometimes fans get angry for nothing.
I agree. Some of these questions was asked during that time when we saw MJ going to Dr. Klein so much within those weeks. We have to remember that MJ was a grown Man and if he wanted to what he wanted to do, NO ONE (friends or family) could have stop him. I remember that nurse saying she told MJ not to use that medicine for sleep; and MJ did not return to her.
 
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It rubs me that wrong way that someone who's consider to be a friend of someone would say that he believed that something was seriously wrong with that person. Ah, what a beautiful friendship that must have been.
 
So as he got older he was hanging out with the only people he felt comfortable with, and that was the kids.

Load of crap.

He was also hanging out with adults both men and women.
He hang out with Sophie Loren, Jane Fonda, Diana Ross, Liz Taylor, Marlon Brando and Miko Brando
David Nordhal, Brad Sunberg, Brooke *******, Stephanie Mills etc.
And even Lionel Richie. Was he a kid or what?



But the kids, the menagerie, the relentless plastic surgery.

What is so weird about any of those?
Kids were there because they wanted to be there. They LOVED MJ.
He had animals because he loved animals. Big deal.
Plastic surgery is done every day on thousands of people. So what?

Why is not NASCAR, flag waving or weddings considered weird?
Simply because a lot of humans do that.
That's the key.
As long as you do the same weird things as millions of others you are not weird.
Eh....humans and their logic!

'So if you want to employ staff to look after your chimpanzee and your giraffes, then that’s perfectly normal.’

Oh the humanity! He had a zoo. How weird indeed.
I'm waiting for him to call Prince Jackson weird because he has all those reptiles.
And while we are at it let's call Steve Irwin the biggest weirdo in the galaxy.
He not only lived with animals he got so close to them that they killed him.

‘Every time I saw him,’ he exhales. ‘There was something seriously wrong with Michael.

Now where did that come from?
We saw the video of WATW as Richie and MJ were working together.
He didn't seem like someone who thought something was wrong with Michael.
And if something was so wrong with him why the heck did you let your daughter hang out with him, sleep in his room
why did you work with him at all? Why didn't you just avoid him?
Hypocrite.

“We’ll never get involved with drugs”. And he died of just that.’


What? Never "get involved with drugs" when you have a ****ing balloon under your skin and
you feel your head will split in half? Yeah sure he shouldn't have taken anything just feel the pain.
That's what people do in the 21th century.
And if you can't sleep for days, hey do whatever you want but don't ever ever take sedatives because then
you will be labelled a junkie.
MJ didn't "get involved with drugs" he was prescibed drugs because he had medical problems.

MJ NEVER dissed Richie or any other artist to the press. Never.
And what did he got in return?
Betrayal by his so called friends.
**** them.
 
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