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I was in the shower and the radio was on. Someone wanted the radio people to play Man in the Mirror (you can call and ask for a song). Then the presenter said, she couldn't believe Michael Jackson was dead. It was like a shock for me, but I had to check the internet first of course to make sure. So I finished quickly, crying all the time. Then I came here. After that I woke my parents, sobbing there's no point in going to London anymore.
Then I had to go to work, it was really nightmarish. Michael Jackson on every radiostation. I mean that would have been heaven if it wasn't for that reason.
 
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i was asleep. Somebody told me that he died. I couldn't bielive it till i visited michaaeljackson.com - site was without any info - only picture. Then i cryed a lot of. I couldn't sleep.
 
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i don't want to talk about the WORST day of my life
even worst than my dying day..
 
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Some of you all might think Im crazy, but I dont care, this is what happened to me when I had found out.

I work at the Mirage hotel/casino in Vegas. I had been out of work for a week due to strep throat. It was my first day that I was going back to work. While I was driving to work I got a call on my cell from a friend who is a fellow fan. This was about 1:45pm pacific time. She told me she had just spoken to a mutual friend that told her Michael had just gone into cardiac arrest and was being transported by ambulance to UCLA Medical Center. This was BEFORE the media had found out. I was shocked! So, I walk into my work where my co-workers and I gathered daily for a pre-shift meeting. Now, keep in mind EVERYONE I work with knows that I am a HUGE MJ fan! They also knew I was going to see MJ outside his Vegas home almost daily last Sept/Oct and would speak to him alot! Anyway, as my pre shift meeting was about to start I was checking for updates on my phone. My co workers were asking me what was going on and I told them. Seconds later I read on my phone that it had been confimed that Michael had passed. I started screaming, "No, no" and was crying uncontrollably. I then collapsed in shock & grief. Everyone was surrounding me and security had to pick me up off the floor. I was crying so bad and uncontrollably that they had to call my family to give me a ride home. They wouldnt even let me drive. When I got home, my son walked in the house right after me. He also was sent home from work due to grief & shock. Me, my son, and my daughter huddled on the floor together just hugging each other and crying uncontrollably. We then decided that we HAD to drive to LA/Encino. We didnt know why, but we all just felt we had to go, so we did! My daughter was the calmest out of us, so she drove. So, we spent two nights standing outside of Hayvenhurst with fellow MJ fans & friends. It gave us a small bit of comfort to be with others that loved Michael just as much as we did.

Later on that same evening I started to get this severe pain in the back of my head. It scared me and it was the worst pain I ever felt. I didnt know what was happening to me. I thought at times I might even collapse because the pain was so severe. So, after a day & a half, my daughter drove me back home to Vegas and took me to see my doctor. While the doctor was examing me, I got another pain attack in the back of my head. The pain was unbearable. The doctor saw what was happening and gave me further tests. Turns out, the stress & the grief I was experiencing was so severe that I was getting extreme muscle spasms in the back of my head! I had to be put on muscle relaxers & anxiety medication to stop the pain. The doctor had to put me out of work for three weeks until the pain stopped. It was the WORST time of my life. It was a nightmare! Although the muscle spasms have stopped, I still feel Im living a nightmare. Its still hard to believe Michael is gone. Its so surreal. Although Im getting through day to day life, I feel like all days are dark and the sunshine is gone. Life is dark and empty.................................
 
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i was watching one of my fave shows Deal or no Deal with my husband that come one every day at 3 and suddently NBC was reporting that Mj whent to the hospital i colud not belvie it i was in shocked when i heard Mj died i was like this cant be a legin has deid he was not suppost to die !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not at 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my husband was in shock too since he is 2 yeras older then him
 
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Because of the time difference it was late evening here and i heard these news only in the morning when came to work, make coffee ant opened the news page in internet. I still remember - MJ's photo from the O2 conference and title "Michael Jackson is dead". Almost 10 minutes I read and read this article again and couldn't understood what I reading about. Then startet to open CNN and the other pages. And everywhere i found the same information. It was maybe the most terrible day in my life.
 
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I got a text from my friend saying, "Did Michael Jackson die?!" At this point, my fanship had been a bit latent for about a year... that's another story. I thought, "Yeah right, just another crazy rumor," until I turned on the tv and saw all the horrifying coverage...

I've never felt so guilty for "leaving" Michael's side.
 
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i was on holiday....
i didn't find out til the next morning cuz of the time difference. i feel severe guilt for this :(
i had to remain in a foreign country feeling miserable for a further 3 days....
vegasmjfan. i know how you feel :( i have that same aching pain in my heart
 
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Gosh, such a sad day. I had left work early for a doctor's appointment. I had heard the somewhat expected but still very sad news about Farrah Fawcett's passing. I was trying to process that while waiting for the bus to go home when I received a breaking news text message from CNN that Michael had gone into cardiac arrest. At this point I didn't dream he would not recover somehow. Then shortly after, I received a text from my sister with the awful, awful news. I was in shock. It actually took a few days for it to really sink in...what a huge loss it was to my life, to this world and for his family.
 
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I was actually at home laying on my bed, just moved into my apartment and got done calling the place i was tryin to get a job at and we had no cable or internet at the time.. I happened to call my mother in law and she was watching the news and had told me he was being taken to the hospital, then gave me the heartbreaking news. i immediately got at least 20 calls and txts at the very same time. didnt answer any of them.
 
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i was at work when my co worker said "did you hear michael jackson died" and I was like "WAHHHTTTT??" so we checked cnn but it was nothing but him going into cardiac arrest, I said "It's a hoax, he's just hospitilized he'll get better"...but I had a bad feeling..so I checked again and saw the worst headline:no:

I called my mom and I was screaming over the phone at my work desk and my friend came to comfort me, I ran home soon after and just stayed with my family, we mourned that whole weekend.
 
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I was at home taking a math placement exam for my first math course in college. It was already a rough day for me anyways and my sister was in her room flipping channels and all of a sudden she comes out into the living room panicking and bursts "Something's wrong with Michael Jackson, he's in the hospital, put it on channel 40(CNN!)"

I just thought he was sick, nothing serious. Probably suffering from fatigue. I wasn't too alarmed at first b/c Michael went to the hospital often...and then on wolf blitzer's screen, there's talk of MJ reportedly suffering from Cardiac Arrest...I was like what??? He's basically dead! All of this while I'm taking an online math exam! I left the exam, called my dad then I called my mom, who was already talking to her co-worker about the whole thing since they heard it on the radio.

Me and my sister were flipping from news channel to news channel. Then we landed on E! where their headline ran "Michael Jackson is dead"...I almost died...but then the other news channels were saying that he was in a coma, my mom told me that on the radio they were saying he was in coma too, so I prayed for E! 's report to be false but slowly one by one all of the channels changed their tune to announce that "Michael Jackson has died"...I honestly could not figure out what world I was living in...was I living at all...the sentence couldn't register in my head...my little sister took it much harder than I did, so I had to comfort her all the while, I needed more than comfort that day.

Then my mom is calling me like every second b/c she knew how crazy I was about MJ when I was a bit younger. She was worried b/c her coworker's daughter who also happened to be an MJ fan collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital but thank God I didn't reach that point since I suffer from panic attacks ever often.


That day was pure chaos. I will never forget it. It constantly replays in my head. I'm not sure I'll ever forget this. I don't want to forget it either.
 
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I was in bed when I got about 5 or 6 simultaneous texts from friends. Some texts said he was in a coma, others said he had a heart attack and was in the hospital, while one said that he had died. So I run downstairs to go on MJJC and then there's a thread about cardiac arrest and how he's all over the news so I turned my TV on and there he was. I flicked through Sky news, fox news, CNN. I kept saying, please God, let him be alright! But seeing what I saw on the screen made my heart shatter. "Michael Jackson, Dead at 50". I dropped to my knees and started crying so hard, crying out his name over and over. I had no one to talk to during that moment and felt so lonely knowing that he departed. I was so lonely. I cried for what could have been hours, I don't really remember much about after. I took something to help me sleep but instead I just went kind of catatonic, I just sat up on my bed all night. And I was so pissed @ one of my friend who said "What are you gonna do with the tickets?!?" right after it was confirmed...

It's still fresh in my mind...June 25th. I will never forget that dark Thursday when I found out that my beloved Michael had left me. I still cry everyday. I'm crying right now. I miss him so much and I still ask myself, "Why? Why did he have to go? Why did it have to be him? Why?" I cry to him late at night sometimes. There were so many things I dreamed of doing if he was still here. I really feel like my life has changed forever. Things will never be the same for me. God I miss him so much. I will never get over this never. He was the love of my life. :boohoo:
 
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I was watching E News and my TV stopped for a minute...then I heard, "Michael Jackson leaves 3 children." I was so confused/shocked. I told my mom that I thought Michael died and we both stared at the tv, flipping through all the news channels. Then, our worst fears were realized. I miss him so much. I still tear up everytime his death is mentioned.
 
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I'd been watching films and was just about to go to bed. My husband told me, and then just went to sleep while I stayed up all night :cry:
 
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I was on the internet and just about to log off for the night. For some reason though, I felt the need to check the news, and when I did, bam, there it was. :(
 
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I was at home i received a message from a friend saying are you ok?? I ignored it because i knew there was nothing wrong i had just told the world i had got my tickets finally i got them on the 24th June!!! So why would i not be ok?? I presumed it was meant for someone else!!! Then i got another txt from another friend saying i am so sorry to hear the news, i was like WTF???

This txt was followed by abut ten others saying hope ur ok, im really sorry, thinking of you etc etc! None of them said why and i had no internet back then so i had no idea what was going on!! I put the TV on and got the news :cry:
 
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sitting in my room..
watching history live in copenhagen.. preparing myself mentally for the concerts..getting EXCITED.. I cried happy tears..sang along.. was on MJ forums.. danced a little.. laughed when Mj laughed on J5 medley..
counting the days left to the concert.. 18 ! I updated my twitter and msn status saying 18 days left, CAN'T BELIEVE IT, omg omg

and then.
I got a text message saying Mj is rushed to hospital. My heart stopped, but I kinda thought yeah right.. then I checked community and saw the thread about cardiac arrest and was wondering WHAT IS THAT? read through some pages.. tears streaming down my face..then I updated my msn nickname to: MICHAEL??????
people started to message me saying Mj DIED??? I replied not confirmed. and ran downstairs where I saw some news footage but then I took off to the forest. I had to get away from everything. I sat down on the ground, prayed and cried as I knew he was in a coma..then my cousin found me as she know me so well..she looked me in the eyes and shook her head..I knew he was gone.

first thing I actually said was, I'm sorry but I can't live on. try to understand.
I had pretty much decided to take my own life. THE PAIN WAS NOT SOMETHING I COULD BARE.
I've never cried like this. never. I cried SO fricken much that I actually do think my heart stopped from time to time because I could not breath and I was drowning in my tears.
all I could think of was I need to die.

when I got home I ran up to my room and the ONLY poster which was representing the concerts..the future.. THIS IS IT, had fallen down from my wall. the only poster that did.
AND.. the dvd (which I hadn't turned off) was completely going insane..you know when the same image goes on and on and on.. like.. if he was singing I'll be there it would be: I'll be.. I'll be... I'll be... over and over again.

well..
I didn't sleep for a few days nor eat. And I went to LA for the memorial in staples. I had to get away from here.
 
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was i the only one who didn't find out by text? i was watching the local news, and they said new breaking, michael jackson has been taken to the hospital........... so i flicked over to BBC news 24 and they were talking a bout the story constantly as more and more news flew in. I sat there and didn't move for about 7 hours
 
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I had just finished my evening walk with my friend (who also lives a few houses down from me), and she went into her house. As I was walking towards my house, she ran out and told me the news. I didn't say much to her....she knew I was in shock. So I ran to my house, when I got to the living room, my mom had it on CNN and I could not believe it. My Mom is also an MJ fan (ever since J5), so we were both just devastated. :cry:

A few days after MJ's death, my friend and I went on our walk. She lives on Jackson Avenue, and we realized that we were both standing on Jackson Avenue when she told me the news. It was just one of those odd coincidences. Before Michael's death, her and I had always made jokes about how cool it would be if Michael moved to Jackson Avenue in our neighborhood. :(
 
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I remember it was the week before i was going on holiday. It was late in the evening and i was sat on my bed chatting to my boyfriend on the phone when my mum came upstairs and told me that he'd been taken to hospital and to turn the news on. So like many of you i thought it was just a rumour and started flicking through different news channels. I honestly thought he would be ok, nothing can touch Michael Jackson right? I cant remember how long it was between finding he had been rushed to hospital and hearing the news, time seemed to stand still anyway. I was still on the phone to my boyfriend who was looking through the internet for any news.

Then it started... reports that he had died, i wasnt crying but my heart was beating as i clung onto the words "rumour" "not confirmed" and "hoax"
I remember hearing the reporter confirming that Michael had died and i just started shaking, crying, screaming, everything. Id woken my brother up and he came in to see what was wrong. My phone was flooded with txts.
That night was the first night in my life that i had stayed up all night, my eyes were red and sore and streaming as i sat watching the news channel till the very early hours.
When i woke up i thought it was a dream, you know when its like that? And then you find out it wasnt :(
Ive never felt pain like that before, just the most horrific time of my life.
 
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:cry: i can't tell mine right now
i'm already crying
i was so happy that day
i was one month and one day away from seeing him
then in a matter of seconds bam
my life turned upside down forever
michael has been there since day one
i have always known of him
and for him to be 'here one day, gone one night' was unbearable
i didn't go into school the next day
ahh i cant take it :weeping:
sorry
 
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wow I can't even say anything right now,
I was getting ready for the church ( right?...) & some most of the time I was listen to music. Then they start playing some MJ's music on the radio, even before MJ died on June 25th Me & my dad was just talking about MJ like he was my 1st artist in the world. You kown how the fact came form. So there was a accounce on the radio thats saying Micheal Jackson just went to the hostpial for a heart attack..... so I was like ok is he's going to be during ok.... Then my dad told me that "Micheal Jackson DIED!" & I was crying so bad! :cry: weeping
 
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i will never forget the day he died and what i was doing and where i was. I was home in my bedroom watching tv and i just happened to come across Wolf Blitzer and i saw the headline that Michael had been rushed to the hospital. I was in shock. I though maybe he was just sick or hurt and he was going to just spend a few days in the hospital and he would be just fine. But then i herd cardiac arrest and all they did was explain was it was and how it was different from a heart attack. They kept saying how he only lived 10 mins away from UCLA and how good it was and that if they were sick they would want to be taken there.Then the news broke. I felt so numb and bursted in to tears. I was yelling "No!No!NO!!!" I was completly destroyed inside. I cried the whole night that i got a headace later and when i finally went to sleep i just dreamt that it was all a dream and he was ok. But i knew deep down it wasnt. I have never been this devestated over someone dying bc everyone i knew that has died we all knew it was comming bc they were really sick or really old. so it wasnt all that sad but this was just horrible and i will never get over michael being gone. i still cry over him and i will never stop.
 
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The day the angels took Michael away from earth I was attending my morning class. I got the news from a guy friend. I remembered that it felt so good because once I entered my friend's car in the morning, the radio was playing Earth Song. After Earth Song, another Michael's song. Then of all the sudden, my friends in car discussing why the heck Michael's song been playing all morning on radio. The guy friend then broke the news, Michael has passed away ! Didnt you know ??? I was really shocked that I was speechless the whole day. But my friends really made me angry because they still joked on Michael's nose and stuff like that and even EWWWW when his songs played on radio. They werent a fan and I wasnt interested on their choice of songs either. Till now I rarely go hang out with them.
 
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i was in a car, traveling to work. i didn't hear the news on the radio clearly because i wind down the window. but all that i heard was that someone had just died. and i only heard the name michael. i didn't know michael what but the first person that came to my mind was him. my parents, who were in the car too, also thought about him. although i didn't know who really died but i was speechless throughout the journey. throughout the years, i've never believe all those stupid rumours but i don't know why i feel that this was not a hoax. once i arrived at my office, i checked the news and bam! my intuition was right. i continued to be speechless for several days.

since then, my world has never been the same. my view change since that day.

since that day too, i try to keep his legacy alive and be some sort of expert on whatever issues on him...i try at very best to feed facts to those who are blinded by the media.
 
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I was sat in my bedroom watching TV and my Dad shouted me saying that something on Michael is on the BBC news, I rush in and they said that he had been taken to hospitial. I rush on my computer and TMZ were saying he died. I didn't believe it as it's TMZ after all. I switched on Sky news and they confirmed that he did. Worse day of my life!
 
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I was watching TV and on the internet when I saw a friend had posted 'The king is dead... long live the king' on his facebook status and I didn't really twig it was about Michael, then I saw a few other friends saying that Michael had died so I frantically checked all the TV channels and various websites to see if it was true or a hideous rumour, I didn't want to believe it until I heard Michael's family say it... after a couple of hours I went to sleep praying and hoping that it wasn't true, it couldn't be... I woke up and my boyfriend went to work but didn't say anything to me as I was still sleeping, then when I woke up I had a text from my friend saying Michael had died... then saw Jermaine on the news, thats when I realised it was true, and I fell apart. I spent the day - and the whole week - crying and listening to Michaels songs. My boyfriend called later that day and I couldn't speak. Its still so raw to me, if I think about it to much I just fall apart all over again :(
 
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