michael jackson oprah interview transcript

Six months and 14 days later, in the summer of 1993, the first accusations of sexual abuse were made public, and his image was tarnished forever. LEMON: Michael Jackson, dead at the age of 50. Spawning iconic music videos and a sold-out world tour, "Bad" went on to sell 8 million copies, and Jackson went on to change his image once again. It was the last time the public viewed the artist not mired in disturbing allegations. Michael: Thank you. Their first three single "I want you back," "ABC," and "The love you save" all hit number one. You know? Pop icon Michael Jackson sat down for an intimate chat with. He said he urged the singer to keep children out of his bedroom. The interview went on to become the most watched in television history, thanks in part to the Thriller star's unusual openness, which saw him discuss everything from his relationship with his father to his skin condition, vitiligo. So, how do you write a song called "We are the World"? Never had a celebrity provoked so much fascination or so many utterly bizarre headlines. The most incredible part of that whole thing was that on his being wheeled to the hospital, you know, he's waving to his fans with the glittered glove, you know, to the end a showman. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The people of the state of California, plaintiff versus Michael Joe Jackson, defendant, not guilty of a lewd act upon a minor child. Beginning at a place called Motown------ And in particular, in the Anna Nicole case, I said, if that's what's going to happen to Michael, it's all going to break our hearts. Simply titled "Bad." And for us to all pay attention to this one being on this planet as much as we did, the light was truly shining bright. On February 10, 1993, Oprah sat down with Michael Jackson for what would be the most-watched interview in television history. He's not the person to do this. On verdict day, he looked like death warmed over. Ellen: Oh, thank you. To understand the enormous buzz that an interview with Michael Jackson (Indiana, 1958-Los Angeles, 2009) generated in February 1993, one needs to understand the context. Yes. With Brooke Shields? Yes. The interview had the intended effect (many considered it a promotional ploy by the two, rather than a real interview). LEMON: Brian Monroe sat down with Michael Jackson in September 2007 for "Ebony Magazine." Months later, Jackson partnered with Lionel Richie on an effort that was more warmly received. "Anybody who knew Michael Jackson will tell you that when you are up close to himhe had absolutely no pigmentation in his skinyou are looking at his veins when you look at his hand. I warned them. We're going to sleep. We're finally hearing from the Jackson family. LEMON: But behind the image of a happy family and their rags to riches story, there was something else -- incredibly hard work, and a father who pushed his children. Uploaded by Interviews. The unprecedented live event, which took place before any allegations were made about sexual abuse, drew a worldwide audience of 90 million people. BRAFMAN: He always appeared to either be in pain or walking with pain. And, worst of all, a potentially terrible father. Cicely Tyson passed away on January 28, 2021. In fact, you know, there were nights where you looked up there and it was like he was timeless, ageless. His mistake is that he took it way too far, so that he stopped being a curiosity, and he started being a freak. TOURE, FORMER CNN POP CULTURE ANALYST: The sound was incredible. JACKSON: My friends and doctors advise me to seek professional guidance in order to eliminate what has become an addiction. And the Jacksons began their rocket rise to stardom. He's unconscious? This time, she wants to speak candidly about the intimate, personal details that made her relationship with Michael as complicated and misunderstood as it was. JACKSON: I'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. I have loved Michael Jackson the artist for several decades. JACKSON: Let's face it. Michael Jackson's place it's fresh candy and there's a the fragrance in his home is like a, a cross between chocolate and vanilla. Oprah, who referenced her own experiences with sexual abuse as a child during the interview, added that when you're as young as Robson and Safechuck were when they allege that Jackson abused them7 and 10you "don't have the language to explain what is happening to you." And I'd see all the children playing, and they'd be rooting and making noise, and I would cry. And with that historic piece of vinyl, a phenomenon was born. "All the times that I testified and the many, many times that I gushed over him publicly in interviewsthat was from a real place. They come up with these dances," Michael said. 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I didnt even want to look in the mirror, my father would tell me I was ugly and I would cry all the time, he said of his adolescence. And a 14 week trial in 2005 found Jackson not guilty of charges that he had molested another 13-year-old boy, Gavin Arvizo. JACKSON: It's not sexual. The Winfrey-Jackson interview was the 101st highest-rated show in television history. Similarly, Safechuck recalls meeting Jackson while filming a Pepsi commercial; they developed a similar working relationship that morphed into sleepovers at the ranch. The unprecedented live event drew a worldwide audience of 90 million people. "It certainly was going to be the most watched interview I had ever done. This is a guy 40 years old who has literally done everything that you can think of, but still hungry enough to say, I want to create an instrument. He was very, very controlled. It's mysterious. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, and he's not conscious either -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, he's not conscious, sir. to Oprah is an American television interview special that was broadcast by ABC on February 10, 1993. Jackson, he said, once asked him for a prescription. BRIAN OXMAN, ATTORNEY: I've talked to this family about it. According to Kitty Kelleys biography Oprah, the host lied when she claimed at the beginning of the interview that nothing had been prearranged. Not that the trial was going to end badly, but that something would happen to Michael. Since the mid-1980s, people had speculated that Jackson wanted to become white, that he wanted to become a woman, that he had bought the Elephant Mans remains, that he slept in an oxygen chamber, that he had married Elizabeth Taylor, that he suffered from anorexia, that his best friend was a monkey, that the monkey was telepathic, that Michael was a homosexual and that he was a virgin. Jackson had never responded to anything, except through his songs. Oprah's interview with Michael is one of the most-watched TV events in history, with 90 million people tuning in to watch and more than 7.8million catching up on the interview on YouTube since . It physically pains me to think about forever parting ways with "The Way You Make Me Feel," the one song that can cheer me up on even my worst days, or the fact that I will never again get to witness the way an MJ classic brings everyone together at a family party. Oprahs interview succeeded in reducing Jacksons image from lunatic to simply eccentric, wrote The Washington Post shortly thereafter. .css-ssumvd{display:block;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.25;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-ssumvd:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-ssumvd{letter-spacing:0rem;margin-top:0.9375rem;}}Gayle King Interviews Angela Bassett, Gayle Says March Is a Good Month for TV Lovers, Sheryl Lee Ralphs Definition of True Love, What We Know About The Little Mermaid Remake, Oprah Congratulates Kimmel on 20 Years of His Show, Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project", Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Wakanda Forever Podcast, Oprah Is Acting in Tyler Perrys Next Netflix Film. "You can count them on two fingers," he said. Beating, Joe maintained, is something you do with a stick. It's about the fact that every 11 minutes in this country, child protective services substantiates or finds evidence for a claim of child sex abuseand that's just the ones we know about. The interview would be Jackson's last. I try not to look in the mirror too much, Im never happy with what I see., The interview was visually powerful; one could almost enjoy watching it on mute. The special featured an interview between musician Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey, filmed at his Neverland Ranch in California. But first an update on the Michael Jackson death investigation. LEMON: A life and legend cut short. JERMAINE JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S BROTHER: You know, you have to say to yourself, who hasn't? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This man was the greatest recording artist of our time. Stay up to date with the latest trends that matter to you most. LEMON: And his beloved Neverland was toxic asset number one. Oprah : Michael Jackson is the seventh of nine brothers and sisters born in Gary, Indiana to steel mill worker Joseph and mother Katherine. He was horribly burned. It just made me very, very, very sad. LIONEL RICHIE, MUSICIAN: Now, one great thing that happened that we both had to realize, I can't read or write music, and Michael cannot read or write music. Thus, the most uncomfortable question was forgiven. And Oprah posed a lot of difficult questions. Disfruta con nuestros Crucigramas para expertos! Michael Jackson was adamant that he was a "gentleman" first and foremost while talking to Oprah Winfrey. LEMON: Ben Brockman was one of Jackson's attorneys. LEMON: It was March 10, 2005, the second day of testimony by Jackson's teenaged accuser. Why can't we create the next instrument?" So when you're selling your furniture to make money, it's like -- yes, it's not exactly a yard sale, but he definitely felt a dire need for cash. LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The buzz over Michael Jackson's interview with Oprah Winfrey continued on several fronts Friday and included a statement from the pop star's dermatologist about Jackson's much-discussed skin condition. Attorney Brian Oxman. To no -- he's not responding to CPR or anything. web pages He made me rehearse too much. The interview aired on February 10, 1993, and it coincided with a crucial moment in Jacksons life. LEMON: For pop music superstar Usher, it's the loss of a pioneer. TOURE: I don't think anybody, even like the Iowa housewives, were saying, you know they're not sleeping together. Sometimes he would call me at 3:00 in the morning crying, terrified about what would happen to his children. LEMON: Michael had another money-making trick up his sleeve. BRIAN HIATT, "ROLLING STONE": Michael Jackson all but disappeared. As Senior Director of Editorial & Strategy, I oversee all of Oprah Daily's digital content, from editorial to video to social media. In a new interview, Oprah discussed and reiterated her support for HBO's documentary series Leaving Neverland, which explores two allegations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson.The series saw two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, accusing Jackson of sexually abusing them as children, and immediately sparked intense backlash online from fans of Jackson and from the Jackson estate. The album was a smash with songs like "Don't Stop till You Get Enough" and "Rock with You," reaching number one. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work. But she's clearly like, whoa, what are you doing? THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. He's not breathing? LEMON: From the high school auditorium to the big-time. The production was very skillful because the images told of all [Jacksons] eccentricities. You want what you create to live, be it a sculpture, a painting, music, a composition, like Michelangelo. Meantime, members of Iran's government-linked militia are reportedly raiding homes and beating suspected protesters, who are believed to be taking part in nightly anti-government chants from Tehran roofs. But I think it was about '85, '86, and I was like, wow. Theres one other person besides Michael: portraits of Michael Jackson, painted by Ralph Wolfe Cowan on a gigantic canvas showing him as a knight in armor accompanied by his monkey Bubbles, a parrot and a cherub. I'm Don Lemon. By the end of the documentary, I felt an unexpected emotion: numbness. RODNEY JERKINS, MUSIC PRODUCER: Michael called me, and he says, "Why can't we create new sounds?" Michael Jacksons next two major interviews (with Diane Sawyer in 1995 and with Martin Bashir in 2003) would have even more disturbing questions. Mere months later, his public image would be tarnished forever viewers (millions) Series Air date Network Ref(s) 1: Michael Jackson: Oprah Winfrey: 62.30 "Michael Jackson Talks . And he said -- and even then he said to me, well, it was more like he says a razzle-dazzle kind of thing. That was the first time Jackson had given a televised interview since 1979. That right there, that will never be replaced. Im going to ask you something and its embarrassing for me, but Im going to ask it anyway. I was like, "What do you mean?" (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LEMON (voice-over): January 16, 2004; it seemed like another classic Michael Jackson performance, surrounded by screaming fans. JACKSON: I ask all of you to wait and hear the truth before you label or condemn me. A lot of people sort of paint him with that brush, but realize he was found not guilty. LEMON: With each not guilty verdict, the crowd outside cheered. For him it was a world of betrayal. LEMON: It worked. Oprah, who referenced her own experiences with sexual abuse as a child during the interview, added that when you're as young as Robson and Safechuck were when they allege that Jackson abused them7 and 10you "don't have the language to explain what is happening to you." She explained: My father didn't love me enough. Have expert advice and tips delivered directly to you. Of course, in all other meetings there were a whole entourage present. I knew it wasn't appropriate. And so Michael and his managers fought them and said Quincy's doing the record. Eight minutes into the show, Oprah posed the question that would allow her to get to the meatier questions. He also sang and danced. TOOBIN: He was emaciated. Michael showed Oprah his Neverland Ranch, and once they settled in the theater, he talked about his social work and his interest in helping children. After all, much of my aforementioned childhood also included walking by the TV and seeing headlines with accusations against my favorite pop star, first in 1993 and later, a much-publicized trial in 2004. In February, he received the Living Legend Award at the Grammys, an honor bestowed intermittently on the likes of Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, which Jackson received at the age of 34. Also, two moving vans showed up today at the rented L.A. home where Jackson apparently collapsed. Music would not be what it is without Michael Jackson. He felt almost abandoned, even though he was acquitted of the charges. It could not be stopped. Every day, Michael Jackson showed up in one of his Captain Crunch outfits. LEMON: Although Jackson denied the abuse allegations, he was arrested and charged with seven counts of child molestation. In 1993, Winfrey was personally invited to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch for an interview with the notoriously private star. I had go-to lines about being able to separate the art from the man; about how Jackson was certainly an oddball with an affinity for children because of his own troubled upbringing, but that didn't make him a criminal; about how there was never any real proof that he had abused children. How many plastic surgery procedures have you undergone? Very, very few, Michael replied. One of the first venues, the auditorium of Roosevelt High. Watching the two interviews back to back reveals an undeniable and astonishing fact: the biggest pop star the world had ever seen had become a completely different person in the intervening 14 years. on July 25, 2021. Tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, we'll talk to a member of Amnesty International about what is going on in Iran and how bad it has gotten. After the sex. LEMON: In July, 1984, the Jackson 5 reunited in a flurry of publicity. The interview shattered records with an audience of 90 million. Michael, a fiercely private entertainer, had refused to give an interview for 14 years. Have you ever had suicidal tendencies? Whats a 36-year-old man doing sleeping with a 12-year-old boy? Have you ever had sexual intercourse with a child? The rest of the story is familiar: Bashirs 2003 interview, in which Jackson again claimed to share his bed with children, prompted an investigation and then a trial for the sexual abuse of a young boy who appeared with him on the show (Jackson was found not guilty). "I love my father, but I don't know him. More "CNN Presents: The Man in The Mirror" in just a moment. Disfrute de nuestras lecciones personalizadas, breves y divertidas. Tickets sold out within hours. His cheeks were sunken in. It was an exclusive talk with Michael Jackson who had refused to be interviewed for 14 years. LEMON: All silent at age 50. And we were sitting very close and he actually collapsed on my shoulder. The Moonwalker: Transcripts from Interviews Transcripts Here are transcipts from many of Michaels interviews. At the beginning, Oprah asked both men if they were prepared to "get it" for speaking out about Jackson's alleged crimes. With all of the pieces and details put together chronologically across four hours, Leaving Neverland brings to life a man who groomed his victims psychologically into simultaneously loving him and fearing him so steadfastly that they never accepted that they were abused themselvesmuch less wanted to tell anyone about it. Not only was I questioning why our culture would want to bring down a man who isn't alive to protect himself, but I, too, was suspicious that these accusers were coming out now, after publicly defending Jackson when he was alive. When I think about my childhood, some of my earliest memories are lying on my living room floor watching Michael Jackson's .css-9cezh6{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#E61957;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-9cezh6:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Moonwalker film over and over, and Sundays on the way to my grandparents' house, bellowing the lyrics to "Remember the Time" from the backseat of my Dad's cherry red Jeep.

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