michael jackson oprah interview transcript

The cost -- $19 million. And the lead singer, Michael, was just so incredible. TOURE: So he's doing the moonwalk. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is something which I feared, and it is something which I warned about. "All I did was enhance the dance.". His appearance had changed so much since he was a child star that there was much speculation about the work he'd had done. So it'd be nighttime. He wasn't making new records. TOOBIN: He was emaciated. Yes. With Brooke Shields? Yes. So an auction of his most personal items seemed like the answer. If you look closely, in the sequence where they walk together to the amusement park all the rides are moving, but theyre completely empty, he says. transcript. I tuck them in. This man through his music actually like made a change in the world. Resuelve los ltimos Crucigramas de Mambrino, Juega a nuestros Sudoku para Expertos y mejora da a da tu nivel, Juega a las nuevas Sopas de letras clsicas y temticas de EL PAS. Fun fact: I got my start in journalism as an intern at _O, The Oprah Magazine, so my role overseeing Oprah Daily's website is a major full-circle moment! But that becomes problematic when sometimes, that means we turn a blind eye to their mistakes, or, in this case (and the cases of other public figures like Kelly, O.J. And we were so excited. On verdict day, he looked like death warmed over. During the interview, Oprah got a private lesson in the signature move. LEMON: Three years later, in the fall of 1991, "Dangerous" was released. More "CNN Presents: The Man in The Mirror" in just a moment. And a 14 week trial in 2005 found Jackson not guilty of charges that he had molested another 13-year-old boy, Gavin Arvizo. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work. LEMON: And his beloved Neverland was toxic asset number one. Obtendr un diploma con estadsticas de nivel, progresin y participacin. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. MICHAEL JACKSON: I would do my schooling for three hours with the tutor, and right after that I'd go to the. Michael entered the shot walking downstairs as Thriller played in the background, but no one was applauding. Long-awaited, the buzz was big. For him it was a world of betrayal. 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. MONROE: The trial hurt him to the core. Instead, it is about the millions of people in this world who never got to have a childhood because of the sexual abuse they experienced before their young brains were even developed enough to know what was occurring. He's a 12-year-old superstar with thousands of people shrieking and screaming. ORTEGA: It was awesome to watch him. LEMON: In a BBC interview, Joe Jackson admitted whipping Michael with a switch or a belt, but denied ever beating him. LEMON: And with Neverland came the children. LEMON: Michael Jackson, dead at the age of 50. But this time, Jackson's stage was the roof of an SUV, outside the Santa Barbara County courthouse. Our editors handpick the products that we feature. LEMON: That documentary triggered bombshell news that thrust the fated pop star back into the spotlight. RODNEY JENKINS, MUSIC PRODUCER: He created things that we've never seen before, visually, in music. After, Robsonnow a famed choreographer known for his work with singers like Britney Spears and *NSYNCexplained why he lied to the public for years. And he said -- and even then he said to me, well, it was more like he says a razzle-dazzle kind of thing. And all you had to do was to look in his eyes and to know that was the truth. And yet the money kept rolling in. GORDY: They were sensations. LEMON: Ten million dollars a year he could no longer afford. 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. In that sense, the show [was] very ambiguous. Despite the interview being filmed in his own home, one of the rooms served as a set. #MichaelJackson #OprahWinfrey #MichaelJacksonInterviewThis is the Making of "Michael Jackson Talks . 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. And that is something that is happening every single day in this country at the hands of far less powerful people. This is really it. to Oprah" February 10, 1993: ABC: 2 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex: Oprah Winfrey 49 . BROCKMAN: I recognized that, you know, this is Michael Jackson. Search the history of over 797 billion LEMON: It was a triumph for Jackson as a musician and as a humanitarian. And that's what happened. That right there, that will never be replaced. She began by asking softball questions. Michael Jackson was adamant that he was a "gentleman" first and foremost while talking to Oprah Winfrey. I sat in my seat struggling with how to fit together the harrowing depiction of a sick man I had just witnessed with the icon who had shaped so much of my life. At minute 24, Oprah posed the question that everyone was asking themselves in 1993: Did you bleach your skin because you dont like being Black?, Here, for the first time in public, Michael mentioned that he suffered from vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that destroys pigment-producing cells. I was always crying from loneliness. With that, live in front of 62 million viewers, Jackson established the first great myth that would surround him from that moment on (and which his most diehard fans would use to justify his most outlandish behaviors): the kid whose childhood was stolen from him. I warned them. JACKSON: Let's face it. LEMON: The marriage collapsed less than two years after the wedding. Leaving Neverland is about the childrenand adultswho are silenced by people like me who are quick to defend accusers simply because of their statusor the people who choose to live in silence because they are afraid of exactly that happening. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fifty, OK. We may earn commission from the links on this page. NORRIS: What a moment that was in pop culture history when he moon-walked across the stage there. Then moved back. No barrier stood before this man that he didn't challenge, that he didn't break down, that he didn't tear down. The marriage lasted only two years, but when Michael talked with Oprah a year before his nuptials, everyone was wondering ifand whohe dated. Almost all of the most watched TV interviews are from the United States, except one from BBC One. LEMON: As his life was controversial -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He raised the bar for image makeovers to a point where no one else wants to even come close to it. 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. A decade later, Jackson was so dependent on prescription drugs that he had to interrupt a world tour to go into a drug treatment program. In the second block of the interview, the tone changed completely. He is later joined by his sister and guest star, LaToya Jackson (1983/1984): . UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While we're on our way, did anybody see him? But she's clearly like, whoa, what are you doing? No word on where they were taken. LEMON: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was in the courtroom. His next saying on the I won't grow up, I'm a lost boy, I'm Peter Pan. LEMON: Motown gave the group a record deal. The album was a smash with songs like "Don't Stop till You Get Enough" and "Rock with You," reaching number one. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran's response to U.S. criticism of its presidential election will be crushing and remorseful. "The moonwalk came from these beautiful black kids who live in the ghettos in the inner cities, who are brilliant. 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. LEMON: Coming up, scandal rocks the gates of Neverland. JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This was certainly the most bizarre criminal trial I ever saw. It just made me very, very, very sad. Where there is smoke, there is fire. TOOBIN: The criminal charges were not a total surprise, because several years earlier, Jackson had settled a civil claim against him by a boy under very similar circumstances. Information from IMDB:Oprah interviews Michael Jackson, broadcast live around the world from his home at the Neverland Ranch. Im going to ask you something and its embarrassing for me, but Im going to ask it anyway. xD Beginning at a place called Motown------ The Watch OWN app is free and available to you as part of your OWN subscription through a participating TV provider. And sadly, he really internalized that message. Watch full episodes and live stream OWN whenever and wherever you want. KING: Yes, but -- JERMAINE JACKSON: His whole thing is, if there's something that you feel that you want to change, and then you do that. She was 96-years-old. "He kept getting whiter and whiter and whiter, and nobody understood why," Oprah says. Cinco sedes disponibles, Licenciatura Ejecutiva en Derecho. Were you as happy offstage as you were onstage?, Offstage I was very sad. Oprah Interviews Michael Jackson Accusers, Leaving Neverland Documentary Finally Convinced Me to Let Go of Michael Jackson, 30 Happy Songs to Play When You Want to Feel Good, Racial Bias in Healthcare Is a National Epidemic. DEEPAK CHOPRA, SPIRITUAL ADVISER: I said, Michael, you don't need these drugs for that. But in January of that year, Michael had just headlined the Super Bowl halftime show (the staging and format of which provided the template for todays artists performing at the years biggest football game) and won three American Music Awards. And, generally, he expressed to me that he was made to feel that he was ugly, that he was not pretty. Oprah Live: Directed by Roger Goodman. Beating, Joe maintained, is something you do with a stick. 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. Again, the 911 tape. You could not on your own going bearing in mind book buildup or library or . LEMON: But Brockman says the superstar was terrified. He filled the property with an amusement park, a private zoo, and dubbed the oasis Neverland. "I love my father, but I don't know him. Interviews. I mean, you couldn't stop them. She arranges the interviews in advance, and they are very prefabricated, but then she has the [gift] of naturalness, of making herself seem like one more member of the audience, even though she is not. I put little like music on into a little story time, I read a book. That was the first time Jackson had given a televised interview since 1979. He said, no one wants to be mortal; we all want to be immortal. The special featured an interview between musician Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey, filmed at his Neverland Ranch in California. Flags at half staff, a memorial at his childhood home. She was referencing the naysayers on social media who were alreadybefore even watching the two-part documentarydiscrediting Robson and Safechuck, calling them liars because neither of them had spoken up when they were younger about what they say happened to them. He was horribly burned. Jacksons album Dangerous, which had been falling down the charts in the two years after its release, became a top-10 bestseller again. It was his greatest blessing, but, I think, also his biggest curse. Meantime, the Reverend Jesse Jackson tells CNN the Jackson family wants answers. Michael: Thank you. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. (Video: HBO) Comment on this story Filled mostly with past hits and some new angry songs like "Scream," 1995's "History: Past, Present, and Future" could not revive Jackson's success in the studio. "You can count them on two fingers," he said. The weight, the gravity, the way he would sing. Michael, a fiercely private entertainer, had refused to give an interview for 14 years. But perhaps its not all that candid, Borja Tern argues. None of those episodes, she goes on to say, illustrated that fact the way Reed's film did. On the weekends, I'm probably either having a margarita, adding new books I don't need to my TBR pile, or playing with my puppy, Leo. And I called Mr. Gordy and I said, I've just seen the most fantastic act. URI GELLER, AUTHOR: I was the only person who had the chutzpah to scream at him and tell him that this business of inviting children to his bedroom is wrong. Michael Jackson and Brooke Shields at the 1993 Grammy Awards, a few days after the interview with Oprah Winfrey. The unprecedented live event drew a worldwide audience of 90 million people. Concerned about hunger in Africa, Richie and Jackson wrote the song "We are the World" and assembled a super group of 200 artists to perform it. Im a gentleman. Who satisfies your desire? asked Oprah (in a nod to a line from the then newly released single Give in to Me). But in this case, there is no separating the artist from the man. His cheeks were sunken in. LEMON: From the high school auditorium to the big-time. Yesterday, President Barack Obama called the recent violence in Iran outrageous. She explained: "Here's the reason why I'm here. And I'd see all the children playing, and they'd be rooting and making noise, and I would cry. LEMON: Millions in mourning. 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. "Forgiveness is not a line that you crossit's a road that you take.". While never forgetting any of the sexual details that happened between us, but having no understanding that it was abusehaving no concept in my mind that anything about Michael could ever badeverything that Michael did was right to me for so many years." JACKSON: My friends and doctors advise me to seek professional guidance in order to eliminate what has become an addiction. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This man was the greatest recording artist of our time. OPRAH IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HARPO, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2023 HARPO PRODUCTIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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. Like what are we doing? NORRIS: From the iconic look to the moonwalk to the glove, the red jacket and the zippers and glasses and the white socks. The production was very skillful because the images told of all [Jacksons] eccentricities. Nobody ever talks about that, but it takes you aback at first. 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. He felt almost abandoned, even though he was acquitted of the charges. 1979, "Off the Wall." Why can't we create the next instrument?" So Jackson was almost doomed to implode somewhat anyway. Test yourself, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. (END VIDEOTAPE) LEMON: Coming up, Michael Jackson, from riches to rags. BRAFMAN: He always appeared to either be in pain or walking with pain. Oprahs assumed naivet achieves complicity with both Michael and the viewer, and on television complicity allows for everything. At the end, he talked about his mortality. Highlights From Harry and Meghan's Interview With Oprah . LEMON: Can you sing it a bit please? That was the start of the plastic surgery, and probably the pain killers. "Leaving Neverland" debuts Sunday, March 3 at 8 PM EST on HBO. Music would not be what it is without Michael Jackson. "All the times that I testified and the many, many times that I gushed over him publicly in interviewsthat was from a real place. That's all tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN, live from Los Angeles. Leaving Neverland is, indeed, much, much bigger than Michael Jackson. To no -- he's not responding to CPR or anything. LEMON: Just a year later, Jackson was catapulted back into the limelight when he was featured in the Martin Bashir documentary "Living with Michael Jackson." He's not going to be able to get any weirder than this. At the beginning, Oprah asked both men if they were prepared to "get it" for speaking out about Jackson's alleged crimes. My father didn't love me enough. And it also broke barriers. As Jackson's marriage began to crumble, so did his career. There are also accusations that Reed created this film and Robson, and Safechuck participated because they're after money and fame. Ellen: Oh, thank you. My "CNN Presents: Man in The Mirror" continues. It's a very complicated cultural dynamic with roots in slavery and beyond that would take me an entire separate article to unpack. TOURE, FORMER CNN POP CULTURE ANALYST: The sound was incredible. You are seeing through to the blue veins, and they're very, very apparent. Special effects? Not that the trial was going to end badly, but that something would happen to Michael. In fact, in the documentary, Safechuck reveals that he only finally came to terms with his own abuseand opened up to his wife about itafter seeing an interview Robson did about his experience with Jackson on The Today Show in 2013. And then he would dance, you know. The pop star's eccentric behavior hardly deterred the album's record-breaking five number ones. WINFREY: Would he -- did he ever beat you? Diane: Glad you're here. LEMON: One month later, Jackson took home eight Grammys. At the heart of this film are the stories of Robson and Safechuck, whowith appearances from their mothers, wives and siblingsdiscuss how they were discovered and mentored by Jackson from the ages of 6 and 9, respectively. Then in 1996, Jackson sent shock waves around the world when it was announced he had married Debbie Rowe, his dermatologist nurse. DE PASSE: I went back one more time, mustered up all my courage. And he's not breathing. And, worst of all, a potentially terrible father. When I saw that spectacle, I realized that my concerns about his frailty, about his physical issues, and emotional instability, were even more well-founded. Oprahs 1993 interview closed with one of the last candid images we would see of Michael Jackson: Oprah and he walking toward the Neverland amusement park, as the camera pans up and music plays. He died three and a half months later. TOURE: I don't think anybody, even like the Iowa housewives, were saying, you know they're not sleeping together. And let's not forget that this wasn't just any man who was playing psychological tricks on pre-pubescent mindsthis was a global superstar, perhaps the most well-known name on the entire planet. Rick: Well, you just want to. 10 best Oprah celebrity interviews of all time 1. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the greatest moment that disco has in its entire history. 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. RABBI SCHMULEY BOTEACH: On the one hand, he would always complain. 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. Don't treat me like a criminal, because I am innocent. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a gentleman here that needs help. Every day, Michael Jackson showed up in one of his Captain Crunch outfits. Is it true that you sleep in an oxygen chamber to stay eternally young? Did you buy the Elephant Mans remains? Is it true that you wanted a white actor to play Michael Jackson as a child in a Pepsi commercial? Winfrey went through a litany of crazy headlines, all of which Jackson denied. BRIAN OXMAN, ATTORNEY: I've talked to this family about it. In 2002, he incited world-wide outrage when he dangled his newborn son, Prince Michael II, from the balcony of a Berlin hotel. The Michael Jackson Interview: Oprah Reflects On February 10, 1993, Oprah sat down with Michael Jackson for what would be the most-watched interview in television history. And we started -- this is where we started. LEMON: Ben Brockman was one of Jackson's attorneys. My father made me into a performance machine. BOTEACH: He did say to me that he was once on an airplane, and his father said to him, you know, your nose isn't nice, or something like that. Oprah also mentioned the criticisms she had been receiving on social media, with commenters asking why she would do this interview when Jackson can't defend himselfand also accusing her of "trying to bring the Black man down.". My father was too strict, he was too much of a disciplinarian. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, he's not breathing, sir. Of all the questions Oprah asked, none had to do with his sexual preferences. DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): From child prodigy to cultural icon. LEMON: The shadow of drug abuse would follow him even into death. They are mourning in Gary, Indiana, too, Michael's hometown. viewers (millions) Series Air date Network Ref(s) 1: Michael Jackson: Oprah Winfrey: 62.30 "Michael Jackson Talks . You're looking at a person who is almost translucent.". And I was -- and I kept saying, I just hope he gets a physical trainer, someone to really work him out, to make sure he's healthy and prepared. 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. LEMON: Bahrain and back again. In 1994, Michael married Lisa Marie Presley. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, but he's not responding to anything. And another girl. The next question that followed was the most striking of the entire encounter, because it was asked of a 35-year-old man who had just claimed that he dated and had been in love. He pleaded not guilty. In 1993, Oprah Winfrey made history by conducting the most-watched interview in television history. I just wish I could understand my father. Just last year, a study by the Census Bureau and Stanford University found that no matter what their parents income level, Black men are less successful than white men on average. DR. HAROLD, BURSZTAJN, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: The fact that he has spent as much time as he has changing his face, changing his appearance, it's reminiscent of patients who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder, which is the condition where when a patient looks at themselves in the mirror, they just hate what they see.

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