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Originally posted by ladygreek
After watching the entire interview and the followup on Prime Time, I believe that Bashir did indeed slant the whole thing to his on purpose of making Michael look bad. Watching the promos for the show made it sound much worse than it was and the obvious spin at the end made me think that Michael does have the right to feel betrayed by this man he let into his life for 8 months.
Michael was obviously traumatized by his childhood, and I suspect he is on meds probably for bi-polar (which may explain the manic behavior in Berlin). The discoloration of his nail beds is indicative of someone who is ill or are meds and could be from the vitiligo. Yes, I do believe that he has the affliction and yes I'm guessing that he had skin peels (or whatever) to eliminate the spotting, especially after suffering the trauma from childhood about his acne.
I also think the whole thing about kids sleeping in the bedroom was blown out of proportion. I believe that he is asexual (he said that he did not have sex with Tatum) and did not and will not sexually assault any children. And really I couldn't care less how many facial surgeries he has had--2 or 20. If he wants to look like and be Peter Pan, that's cool too. There are worse things than wanting to be eternally young, like being eternally messed up on crack.
But IMHO, Mr. Bashir (and Barbara Walters in her commentaries) artfully edited and spun the documentary in a way that was solely for the purpose of sensationalism and discreditation.
I left the whole thing deeply concerned about Michael--concerned more of what he might do to himself when he can no longer hide the aging process. I honestly believe he may commit suicide before he turns 50.
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I agree with you and Redefined Diva. I honestly feel sorry for him. NO one knows what happened in the Jackson household but that family. I too agree that he is asexual, I mean no matter how he looks there would have still been plenty of women who would have slept with him just to have his baby... I don't agree with him having those kids in his bed like that, but I didn't like Bashir's style of interviewing and like Michael said at the end he pretty much backstabbed him in the trust department. It has to be a hard thing to go through life having had no childhood, and go through physical and mental abuse. I mean Janet had an interview with MSNBC and her last words were "one day I will hopefully be able to love myself", so all of them can't be telling the same lie. I just feel really bad for them all, because at least from what I saw in that interview last night Michael is just broken and no amount of money in the world can mend it as we can see already.