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I'm sure most of you are aware of the
recent television special that claimed
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to give an honest, candid, and revealing
look into the private life of one of the
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world's most successful and
controversial celebrities, Michael
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Jackson. The revelations were explosive.
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The ratings were enormous.
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But Michael has claimed that what TV
journalist Martin Bashir presented...
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was a twisted and edited construction of
scandal and innuendo, not a true
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representation of the interviews that
actually took place.
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In the next two hours, we're gonna give
you an opportunity unprecedented in the
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history of television.
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We're gonna show you footage that was
never intended to be broadcast.
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Tonight, the private video from
Michael's own cameras, cameras that shot
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the Michael Jackson interview, the
footage you were never meant to see.
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As much as I do not speak about my
family, I will right now.
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For the first time, Michael's ex-wife
speaks out in public.
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My kids don't call me mom because I
don't want them to.
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You'll find out what really happened
during the astonishing incidents with
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his children in Germany.
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And I've seen people flip their kids up
in the air to somersault and catch them.
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To be honest with you, I think wait
another four or five years, the kids
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will come in front of a camera and they
will defend their daddy.
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You'll hear about Michael's childhood.
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One of the things I can see this man
tried to do, he tried to pin something
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on me where I was real brutal.
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You'll find out how Michael really feels
about his father.
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He doesn't know this, but...
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You'll hear about Michael's surgery that
the other special didn't mention.
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You'll hear the truth behind Michael's
children and their disguises.
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You'll go behind the rumors of the
Neverland Ranch.
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And find out how those rumors have
driven a family from their home.
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Gavin called me. He was crying on the
phone.
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He went in gas station. The kids in gas
station, they start kidding.
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Oh, you are the kids doing this with
Michael. You slept with Michael. They
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ruined this kid's life.
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You'll hear from the people closest to
Michael.
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I've heard someone say on the television
that no one should be allowed behind
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those gates at Neverland, especially the
children. They don't even know what
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they're talking about.
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Plus. A surprise revelation from the man
behind the Michael Jackson interviews.
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There'll be a lot of controversy about
this.
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It's tabloid stuff. Well, you'll be
young. I know. All tonight on the
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Michael Jackson interview, the footage
you were never meant to see.
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Hosted by Maury Povich.
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With Mr. Brashear's full knowledge,
Michael had his own behind-the-scenes
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camera documenting the major interviews.
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The quality of the audio and video may
be a bit raw at times, but it will
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enable you to see and hear the
interviews as they actually happen, and
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will allow you, the viewing audience, to
draw your own conclusions.
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And while Michael Jackson has provided
this footage to us, he has absolutely no
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control over the editorial content of
this program.
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But who is Martin Bashir?
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And how did he get an exclusive
interview with one of the most reclusive
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pop stars the world has ever known?
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In 1995, this little-known British
journalist caused an uproar when his
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sensational interview with Princess
Diana revealed details of her
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extramarital affair.
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Since then, he has scored interviews
with some of England's most notorious
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newsmakers, becoming somewhat of a
celebrity himself.
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Martin, a quick word for the evening
news. His interview with Jackson was, as
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he put it, a request to show me the real
man. But show me everything. Make
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nothing off limits.
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Michael agreed.
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And the first interview was scheduled
for the summer of 2002.
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In these photos of one of Bashir's
interviews with Jackson, you can see the
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camera that captured the footage you
were never meant to see.
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It's mounted right there on the light
stand.
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This is the view it was capturing at the
last interview.
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And this is the shot.
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From the very first interview at
Neverland.
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The man adjusting the lens.
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Now this is on. Okay.
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Can we have silence in the house?
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Yeah. Is Jackson's own documentary
cameraman.
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Well, I just wanted to clarify that it
was not a secret video.
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Because right now they're saying that we
were secretly videotaping him. But
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that's not the truth.
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She saw me, you know, hooking up the
camera.
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And, you know, everybody saw the camera
out there and we were just rolling it.
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We usually do documentary on every, you
know, thing that Mr. Jackson does.
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Do you think that your success has
actually made people turn against you?
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The bigger the star, the bigger the
target.
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And the more popular I became, the more
rumors that were created, which none of
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which were true.
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I mean, the moment I started breaking
the all-time records of the biggest
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selling albums of all time, they called
me weird overnight, strange, wacko.
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You know, they said I'm a girl,
homosexual.
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He wants to buy the Elephant Man bones.
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He sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber. None
of that stuff is true.
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All completely made up. I've seen where
you sleep. It's all a lie. I've seen
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where you sleep, and it's not a
hypothetical.
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I sleep in a bed.
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People would be so surprised how normal
and simple we are.
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Most people would have a very hard time
thinking Michael Jackson's life was
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normal or simple.
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Maybe it's that ranch north of Santa
Barbara, California, the 3,000 acres he
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calls Neverland.
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Neverland is an extraordinary, a
breathtaking, a dependent, an
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exhilarating, an amazing place. I can't
gather together words to describe
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Neverland. What inspired you to make a
home like this?
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What inspired me? It was so easy because
it was me being myself, creating things
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that I love.
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And what I love, kids happen to love, or
the child that lives inside the adult.
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happens to love, you know? It is so easy
because I'm just putting behind the
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gates everything I never got to do when
I was a kid.
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Do
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you
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have regrets about the way your life has
been?
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Somewhat.
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And what do you regret?
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When I was really little, around 11 or
12, I was under contract with
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Motown.
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And I would have to go to the recording
studio. I had to go and make these
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albums. Because the summer tour was
right around the corner.
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And right across the street from the
recording studio was a ballpark.
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And I could hear the kids.
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You know, the roar of the crowd and
playing and catching the ball and having
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fun and playing tennis.
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And some of those times I so
passionately wanted to just go over
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there and just play a little bit and not
go to the recording studio and sing.
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Just to, you know, have some fun with
the kids.
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And I couldn't.
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People say, why are you always with
children?
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Well, I was raised in a world with
adults.
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The kids were playing in bed, sleeping.
I was up doing clubs.
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I was doing club dates, 3 in the
morning.
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The striptease would come on after us.
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We were performing, and we did have
friends.
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My brothers were my friends, but we
worked. We worked every Christmas.
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On my birthday, there were very strict
local witnesses.
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So I'm compensating. Nature made sure
that I compensated for the loss.
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So when you come behind my gates, you'll
see amusement parks, you'll see animals,
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you'll see everything I never got to do.
There's candy everywhere.
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Fun. While Bashir and his crew were here
at Neverland, they got to witness what
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has become an almost weekly experience.
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Buckloads of children stumped in the
inner city, some orphans.
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some terminally ill, but all of us
escaping their reality to spend a day at
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Michael Jackson's creation.
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I feel totally at home with them. I can
talk to them one-on-one because they
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don't judge you.
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They're not looking for anything.
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They just want to have some fun.
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And that's the same with myself.
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And I can connect to that. I can
understand that.
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And the fact that I miss that on so much
as a child.
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As soon as they come in the room, for
me, the room lights up.
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I like the sound it makes.
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Oh, that's great.
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That's great.
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They're really fun.
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Oh, my God, they're fun.
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Didn't one of them say something funny
to you yesterday about... Yeah, one of
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the boys said to me, he said, he saw all
the rides and all the amusements, and he
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said, Michael Jackson, you own all of
this?
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I go, yeah.
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He said, you pay for all of this?
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I said, yeah, I did.
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And you still have money left over?
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That's exactly what he said to me.
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I said, yeah.
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I said, yeah.
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He goes, I can't believe it.
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He said, I can't believe it.
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That's exactly what he said.
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He was amazed that I still had money I
have to look into.
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We're Make-A-Wish staff members, and we
are escorting all the Wish families that
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came to meet Michael.
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It's just great to be a part of it and
see how happy they are.
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Everything is free.
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Theater, amusement park, whatever they
want to do, they can do it.
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But it's not free for you. It costs you
millions of dollars. Millions a year,
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yeah, millions.
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But, you know, I get it all back when I
see them smile.
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Peter Pan.
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I've been in the house. I've seen the
statues outside the house.
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Why is Peter Pan a figure of such
interest and inspiration to you?
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Because Peter Pan, to me, represents
something that's very special in my
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heart. You know, he represents youth,
childhood, never growing up, magic,
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flying, everything I think that
children...
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and wonderment and magic, what it's all
about.
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And for me, I just have never, ever
grown out of loving that or thinking
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that it's very special.
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You don't want to grow up?
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No, I am Peter Pan.
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Are you not your Michael Jackson?
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I'm Peter Pan, my heart.
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Do you think it would be true to say
that you found friendship and
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inspiration in children that you haven't
been able to find in adults?
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That's absolutely the truth.
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Really? Yeah.
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Yeah. I haven't been betrayed or
deceived by children.
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Adults have let me down. Adults have let
the world down.
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What you're seeing all took place on the
day that Martin Bashir and his crew were
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filming at Neverland.
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You actually see him in several of the
shots being taken by Jackson's camera
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crew. This was supposed to be a
documentary to tell the truth.
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Everything.
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I mean, who would bring somebody to his
life and open up all the way and wanted
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to lie about it? You know, if you don't
want to lie about it, don't even do it.
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You didn't have to do this documentary.
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Nobody forced them to do this
documentary.
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After a full day spent with children
from the Make-A-Wish Foundation at
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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, what
was Mr. Bashir's comment?
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We'll quote directly from his appearance
on ABC's Primetime Thursday.
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One of the most disturbing things is the
fact that a lot of disadvantaged
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children go to Neverland.
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It's a dangerous place for a vulnerable
child to be.
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Now, I'm not saying that I saw any
evidence of Michael Jackson being
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involved sexually with any children.
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Quite the contrary. But what I am saying
is that children who are vulnerable
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should not be going into the house of a
billionaire superstar where they sleep
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in his bed.
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As we said, that was the sheerest
comment heard on TV by millions of
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people. But what did Bashir say to
Michael Jackson about this day at
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Neverland? Let's take a look at the
footage that was captured by Michael's
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camera documenting the interview.
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The problem is, you see, nobody actually
comes here.
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But I was here yesterday and I saw it.
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And it's nothing short of a spiritually
kind thing.
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I know, I know, but I've told him.
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A lot of people see it. They never talk
about it. And I've said this to him. And
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what I wanted to convey is those two
things.
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And what we've had the privilege of
doing this week is not only talking
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about the musical genius, but about what
we saw yesterday, which was incredible.
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The woman you see has been Michael's
makeup artist for over 20 years.
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After listening to the glowing praise
Bashir had for Michael in this
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interview, she had a very hard time
believing he could call Neverland a
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dangerous place for children.
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It's so hard for me to imagine that
Michael opened up the
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gates, not only to Neverland, but to his
heart, to Bashir.
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And I really thought...
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That first year, got it.
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It's getting worse.
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He goes, I mean, I can't tell you. I
don't like this.
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He never speaks when he talks about
this.
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But when he's talking about the things
that he's passionate about,
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it's obvious that he's in his eye.
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People usually don't ask these
questions.
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And if they do, they don't make it in
the papers. They don't make it.
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On the interviews, it's all the negative
stuff.
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And they cut questions out.
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That's why he doesn't even do interviews
anymore.
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They twist everything.
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From the moment I met him, I mean, I
remember, how can people be so cool? I
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read an article the other time, and he
goes, Well,
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we ain't doing that here.
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Now, what could make an award-winning
journalist?
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have such a different opinion between
what he would say on the air and what he
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would say in the interview footage not
included in his special.
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It appears that after Mr. Bashir had
called cut for his own camera crew, he
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may well have forgotten that Michael's
camera was still recording his every
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word, a possibility supported by a
written request from both him and the
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producers of his special to make
Michael's footage available for their
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review.
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The different opinion expressed by Mr.
Bashir regarding the safety of the
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underprivileged children who visit
Neverland is only the first of several
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contradictory moments captured on tape,
all of which you will see and hear on
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this program.
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When we come back, an exclusive
interview with Michael's ex-wife.
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As much as I do not speak about my
family, I will.
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Right now.
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Michael makes a long overdue confession.
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You had sex with Debbie.
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I know that's difficult for me to say
because you're so embarrassed.
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But you actually had sex with her. You
can see that.
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And Debbie tells us about the result.
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And then his son was born.
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And look on his face.
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Plus, a very surprising revelation from
Michael's private cameras.
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All when we return to the Michael
Jackson interview, the footage you were
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never meant to see.
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In addition to the never-before-seen
footage from Martin Bashir's interviews,
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we have also been allowed unprecedented
interviews with some of the people
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closest to Michael Jackson, people who
have turned down very lucrative offers
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to tell the inside story of life behind
the Neverland Gate.
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They break their silence for the first
time, and not for money.
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No one interviewed for this show
received any payment to tell their
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story. Their reason for appearing here
is to tell the truth.
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as they see it.
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And the person who has most avoided the
glare of the spotlight is the person who
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was perhaps the closest to Michael, the
woman who was his wife and the mother of
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his first two children, Debbie Rowe.
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What's happened in the past is things
have been taken out of context, twisted
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around.
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If I can help straighten it out, as much
as I do not speak about my family, I
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will.
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Right now.
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When I was talking to Prince one day, he
said to me that he didn't have a mother.
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Yeah, I said, Prince, where's your
mummy? And he said, I haven't got a
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mother.
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Did you tell him to say that?
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What do you think he means when he said,
I haven't got a mother?
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My kids don't call me mum because I
don't want them to.
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They're Michael's children. It's not
that they're not my children, but I had
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them because I wanted him to be a
father.
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I believe that there are people who
should be parents, and he's one of them.
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And he is such a fabulous man and such a
good friend, and he's always been there
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for me, always, from the day I met him.
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I could do something for him, and this
is what I wanted to do.
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Most people think Michael and Debbie's
relationship was very short-term.
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Actually, they met over 22 years ago.
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Was it intense, ma'am? No.
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No, it was over time.
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It was over time. I think it was 18
years, 17, 18 years
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that I knew him when I had Prince.
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In that time, they've gone on some very
unusual outings, often with Michael in
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disguise.
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Yeah, he'd call, what are you doing?
Nothing, what are you doing?
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Want to go to the video? Yeah.
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You know, we'd sneak out without
security.
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We got caught.
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God, this is like a Beatles film. We're
getting chased by people.
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We'd have to call security and bail us
out.
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But, yeah, we'd go out and do stuff.
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So you'd go out to the ranch. Sneak him
into premieres and things.
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Yeah, we had a good time. We had a good
time. He's always a lot of fun.
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When did Michael start talking about
wanting to have kids?
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Was this when he was still with Lisa
Marie?
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No, they had broken up.
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And I was trying to console him because
he was really upset.
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And he was upset that he really wanted
to be a dad. And I said, so be a dad.
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And he looked at me puzzled.
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And I said, let me do this.
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I want to do this.
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You've been so good to me. You're such a
great friend. Please let me do this.
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I said, you need to be a dad.
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I want to do this.
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And I nagged him into it,
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if you will.
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She's a wonderful person. She knew that
Michael Jackson loves children.
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Yeah. And she knew that Michael Jackson
wanted children. That's why.
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And she was... You need to be a daddy.
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Right.
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She said you needed to be a daddy.
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More than she needed to be a mother.
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Yeah. And she wanted to do that for me
at the present.
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And if you're talking about romance,
maybe then, if you want to have a
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marker, if that makes you...
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the rest of america feel that they need
a marker and you could probably use that
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once debbie's pregnancy became common
knowledge the tabloid world had one
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burning question did they or didn't they
the first two crystal parents from
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debbie which was natural conception you
you had sex with debbie yes i know
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that's difficult for you for me to say
because you're so embarrassed but you
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you actually had sex with her you can
see that yes
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From the first moment Debbie learned she
was pregnant, Michael warned her of what
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was to come.
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He said, you don't know what they can
do.
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And I said, oh, Michael, come on.
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We're having a baby. Normal people have
babies. We're having a baby.
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Come on.
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How can that be weird? We're having a
kid.
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If anything, that's beautiful. That's
wonderful. That's great.
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Why was I wrong?
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I found out at one point a picture of me
pregnant was worth half a million
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dollars.
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To who and why?
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Have they never ever seen someone
pregnant before?
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Am I supposed to look different pregnant
because it's Michael's baby than someone
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else? As you've heard, the decision to
have Michael's child was easy for
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Debbie. The actual birth was another
matter.
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And we were very excited.
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Michael was definitely more excited than
I was.
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You know, he was so excited when we had
a contraction.
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And he was there.
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We had videos. We had music, you know.
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And it was long. It was 23 hours.
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And I had a very colorful language.
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And every time I went to say something,
Michael would cut me off with, shoot.
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Or fudge. Oh, he doesn't like cursing.
Or he didn't think it was necessary when
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there were other words he would do.
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But he was there the whole time, held my
hand,
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stroked my head.
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I think I puked once, and I was so
embarrassed. And he was like, stop.
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You're fine.
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This is beautiful. This is wonderful. I
said, I'm going to die.
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No, you're not going to die. This is
great.
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Okay, we're crowning, you know, and
Michael, bam, he's right there.
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And he goes, oh, my God, this is so
beautiful.
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Now, having come from a medical
background, there is no way blood and
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stuff, there's no way.
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Sorry, I don't come from that
background.
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It's like, Michael, it can't be that
beautiful.
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He was welling up.
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And then his son was born.
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And the look on his face.
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Talk amongst yourselves.
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I'd never seen him that happy.
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And that's what made it wonderful for
me, was
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to see the look on his face.
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The birth of Prince Michael was soon
followed.
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By a sister, Paris.
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Yeah, we were kind of told we should
wait.
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You know, I guess there's a waiting, a
suggested waiting time.
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But I was flying to Paris all the time.
That's actually how she got her name.
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That's where she was conceived.
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Do you not think, though, that your
children would benefit from contact with
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their mother?
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No, but she doesn't.
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It's private information. She doesn't.
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She can't handle it.
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She can't handle her own children.
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Yes, I can't reveal that because I don't
want to make anybody upset.
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While Michael may seem reluctant to
discuss Debbie's absence from their
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children, Debbie had no reluctance
whatsoever.
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People don't understand that. And they
want a traditional, they think that
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something has to be traditional.
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And they have this notion of beaver
cleaver.
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That wasn't reality in the 50s, and
that's not reality in the 21st century.
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We have a nontraditional family, and if
it makes people uncomfortable,
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it's a shame that they're not more open.
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We are a family unit.
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Michael and I will always be connected
with the kids.
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I will always be there for him. I will
always be there for the children.
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And people make remarks, oh, I can't
believe she left her children.
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Left them? I left my children?
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I did not leave my children. My children
are with their father.
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Where they're supposed to be.
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So, this mother carries both children
for nine months in her
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body. And she gives birth to them. And
she prefers...
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that they have nothing to do with her.
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Split up because I... They got to a
point where I couldn't deal with it. I
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couldn't deal with the fact... I
couldn't go to the grocery store.
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For two reasons. One, I'd get followed.
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Two, I'd have to look at crap on the
newsstands that are right at the
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register as you go out that wasn't true.
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You know?
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I wasn't used to it.
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I like doing things for myself.
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Michael's more than generous. He said,
we don't have to go to the grocery
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store. But I want to.
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I really want to.
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I want to go back to what I can go back
to.
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That was what I was used to. That's
where I'm comfortable.
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Doing this is very uncomfortable for me.
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Talking about these things is extremely
uncomfortable for me.
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But it's hard when you're an
entertainer, you know. It's hard to have
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a marriage.
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I mean, one day I'll be married again,
but it's too soon. I went through two
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tough courses.
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So I'm married to my fans.
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I'm married to God. I'm married to my
children.
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I'm married to life.
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Coming up, the notorious incident that
had the whole world talking.
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It happened for like two seconds, but
when it gets on the news, it's slowing
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down.
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Michael's mother reveals what it was
like to grow up in the Jackson 5.
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Joseph didn't beat him or anything like
that. We just disciplined him out of
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love. And we find out why Bubbles had to
go.
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Because kids, they get to an age, like
teenage kids do, where they want to
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challenge their parents.
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All when we return to the Michael
Jackson interview.
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The footage you were never meant to see.
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When Martin Bashir arrived to film
Michael and his children, Bashir was
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immediately confronted with one of the
major worries of celebrity parents, the
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horrible danger of kidnapping.
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Consequently... As a security measure,
public appearances by Michael's children
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require that their faces be hidden
behind masks or veils.
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Because you don't let anybody see the
children. I don't want a Lindbergh baby.
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Nobody took Lindbergh baby, Charles
Lindbergh baby, took him in the forest
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and burned him to death.
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Okay, so I don't want that to happen to
my children.
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Bashir's repeated questioning failed to
establish one important fact, whose idea
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it was to wear them.
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I obviously have some influence, as
their faces are still covered.
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That was my request, not his.
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Michael's very proud of his children.
466
00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:15,160
I'm the one who's terrified.
467
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,820
I'm the one who's seen the notes that
someone's going to take his children.
468
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:26,800
They're not.
469
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:28,560
They're not.
470
00:31:31,850 --> 00:31:36,510
Whatever, whatever can be done. They're
not. There's nothing more terrifying
471
00:31:36,510 --> 00:31:42,010
than looking at a piece of paper that
says, I'm taking them.
472
00:31:43,590 --> 00:31:44,770
And I said, you know what?
473
00:31:45,410 --> 00:31:47,190
I wore a scarf. No big deal.
474
00:31:50,150 --> 00:31:51,150
Pretend it's Halloween.
475
00:31:51,850 --> 00:31:55,690
I don't want people seeing that the
press are very mean.
476
00:31:56,210 --> 00:31:57,850
I don't want them to grow up
psychologically.
477
00:31:58,590 --> 00:32:01,150
Crazy because of the evil things they
could say to them.
478
00:32:01,470 --> 00:32:02,550
I want them to be normal.
479
00:32:03,650 --> 00:32:04,950
That makes sense, doesn't it?
480
00:32:05,690 --> 00:32:07,390
Yeah. Right? It does.
481
00:32:07,650 --> 00:32:08,650
It does.
482
00:32:08,830 --> 00:32:15,130
And I'm sure at some point he will say,
you know, to the children,
483
00:32:15,190 --> 00:32:18,530
do you want to wear the scarf?
484
00:32:19,250 --> 00:32:25,450
I will have immediate heart failure, you
know, but, you know, he's not going to
485
00:32:25,450 --> 00:32:26,970
make his children do something they
don't want to do.
486
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,440
He's not that kind of a parent.
487
00:32:30,380 --> 00:32:31,380
Not at all.
488
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:39,320
And I truly don't see why everybody
489
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:40,480
focuses on that.
490
00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:43,320
I mean, is it a fashion statement?
491
00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:45,140
Are the scarves not matching?
492
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:46,560
You know, we'll work on it.
493
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,460
While some people may have a hard time
with the intense security measures
494
00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:55,020
Michael and his family have to follow,
495
00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:00,100
There was one particular occurrence in
Germany that had many people questioning
496
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:04,940
his children's safety Take
497
00:33:04,940 --> 00:33:11,660
for example what happened in Germany
where there was a huge
498
00:33:11,660 --> 00:33:17,860
outcry And you suffered a great deal of
negative comment in the press Was
499
00:33:17,860 --> 00:33:20,780
there no one in your group who said
Michael?
500
00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:25,550
Even though you're not going to damage
your child, and you would never harm
501
00:33:25,550 --> 00:33:31,530
your child, but Michael, if you dangle
blanket over a balcony, you are going to
502
00:33:31,530 --> 00:33:32,590
be severely criticized.
503
00:33:33,810 --> 00:33:36,730
Was there no one in the room who would
say, Michael, don't do it?
504
00:33:38,390 --> 00:33:39,490
And they didn't say no?
505
00:33:40,090 --> 00:33:43,490
No, because I was holding that baby
strong, hard, tight.
506
00:33:43,810 --> 00:33:46,550
No, that's exactly what I'm saying,
though. And I know better.
507
00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:51,520
And I've seen people that flip their
kids up in the air, do somersaults and
508
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,520
catch them.
509
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,960
And, you know, I get caught for the
moment. It's holding on tight.
510
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,440
Give away.
511
00:33:58,980 --> 00:34:04,520
And, uh, but this is in two seconds, but
when it gets on the news, we slow it
512
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,640
down. They don't show the crowd.
513
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:11,199
They're making me look like I'm this
eccentric idiot dangling his baby over a
514
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:12,600
balcony like a nut.
515
00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:15,600
I think the media took.
516
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:19,030
Took it and ran like they do everything
else.
517
00:34:19,510 --> 00:34:26,090
It's just like oh my god. Oh my god
dropping the baby, please Please they
518
00:34:26,090 --> 00:34:31,290
blew it up into something. It's not that
we know about so Misunderstood explain
519
00:34:31,290 --> 00:34:35,350
it. What don't we know about what should
we know about him? We don't know all
520
00:34:35,350 --> 00:34:40,530
right. I'll tell you from the very
beginning good He had such a grip on
521
00:34:40,530 --> 00:34:46,710
that child and if you look at it again
He's got that child so
522
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:50,110
tightly held under the armpits.
523
00:34:50,770 --> 00:34:51,810
I'm showing it now.
524
00:34:53,469 --> 00:34:55,670
Yeah, he's got it pretty tight under his
arm.
525
00:34:56,489 --> 00:35:00,450
Governance was up there, security was up
there, other people. I took my other
526
00:35:00,450 --> 00:35:01,850
children up there and did the same
thing.
527
00:35:08,710 --> 00:35:11,230
Like I said before, he's very proud of
his children.
528
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,860
You know? And to listen to his fans all
night long.
529
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,700
They're so adoring and so loving and
loyal.
530
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,400
And they'll be there all night.
531
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,480
And they wanted to see the little one.
And he showed them the little one.
532
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:29,060
Nothing inappropriate.
533
00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:34,720
May not have been the best thing he's
ever done in his life.
534
00:35:35,140 --> 00:35:39,740
But certainly, I think it was made too
big a deal of.
535
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:53,040
In spite of his admission that he was
not happy about the incident, it still
536
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,000
did not seem as troubling to Michael as
it did to people around the world. A
537
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,860
point Martin Bashir made both in his TV
special and in his comments on primetime
538
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:03,780
Thursday after the show aired.
539
00:36:04,380 --> 00:36:07,940
He said that they are restricted. They
are overly protected.
540
00:36:08,540 --> 00:36:11,940
I was angry at the way his children were
made to suffer.
541
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:17,120
What he said about Michael's parenting
skills in the footage that was not aired
542
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:22,440
appears to paint an extremely different
picture. And we must stress, what you're
543
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,960
about to see and hear happened during
Bashir's final interview with Michael
544
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,120
long after the incident with the baby on
the Berlin hotel balcony.
545
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,940
One of the things that I noticed about
you over the last year is your
546
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:38,120
relationship with your children.
547
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,520
And I have to say to you, and I didn't
know you before, and you haven't put on
548
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,720
a front, your relationship with your
children is spectacular.
549
00:36:46,380 --> 00:36:47,380
Hello.
550
00:36:48,140 --> 00:36:52,620
And in fact, it almost makes me weep
when I see you with them, because your
551
00:36:52,620 --> 00:36:57,720
interaction with them is just so
natural, so loving, so caring.
552
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:03,140
And everybody who ever comes into
contact with you knows that.
553
00:37:03,780 --> 00:37:05,020
I'm crazy about them.
554
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:12,580
And I tell them, I look into their eyes
every day. I make sure I do it. I say,
555
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,700
look at me. I love you very much.
556
00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:19,420
What they actually say to you is they
love you, and you say, I love you more.
557
00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:21,980
That's what you say every single time.
558
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:25,240
That's your phrase, and I've heard it.
I've heard it once. I've heard it a
559
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:26,240
million times.
560
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,480
Yeah, and they say such sweet things
sometimes.
561
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,420
And I didn't tell them to say it.
562
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,180
They see it all the time. A principal
can say, Daddy, thank you for giving me
563
00:37:39,180 --> 00:37:40,180
a brother.
564
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,380
All the time.
565
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,080
You know, parents will say that too.
Thank you for giving us a brother.
566
00:37:45,420 --> 00:37:50,560
You know, I mean, and I would like to
have more children.
567
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:56,240
You know what? If he called me tonight
and said, let's have five more, in a
568
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,600
heartbeat. You would do it again. In a
heartbeat.
569
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,380
In a heartbeat. Now, what could have
persuaded?
570
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,720
one of the world's most reclusive
superstars, to grant an interviewer and
571
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,580
a camera crew entrance into his life.
572
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,900
Now, according to Jackson, it was to
answer many of the important questions
573
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,540
that tabloids and fans have been
speculating about for years.
574
00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:22,200
As you've seen, not all of those
important answers made it on the air.
575
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:27,580
And as for the not-so-earth-shaking
ones, well, they were edited out, too,
576
00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:29,620
like the whereabouts.
577
00:38:30,170 --> 00:38:30,988
of Mr.
578
00:38:30,990 --> 00:38:33,210
Jackson's former constant companion.
579
00:38:34,250 --> 00:38:35,430
Where is Bubbles now?
580
00:38:36,070 --> 00:38:42,330
Bubbles is, he's with a caretaker with
like 40 to 50 other chimps,
581
00:38:42,330 --> 00:38:47,970
because chimps, they get to an age, like
teenage kids do, where they want to
582
00:38:47,970 --> 00:38:49,190
challenge their parents.
583
00:38:49,770 --> 00:38:52,590
Like if your father tells you to do
something, you go, why?
584
00:38:53,110 --> 00:38:54,450
Why do I have to do it, Dad?
585
00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:57,350
And chimps are very much like that, too.
They'll challenge you.
586
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,840
And it can become dangerous in a way.
587
00:39:00,420 --> 00:39:06,140
And if they get angry with you and
decide to take you on, it's no match. I
588
00:39:06,140 --> 00:39:07,640
mean, they're very, very strong.
589
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,720
They can take your finger off. They're
very powerful.
590
00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:15,660
But while Bubbles was living at
Neverland, Bubbles, the other animals,
591
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:18,000
and Michael were virtually inseparable.
592
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:22,280
Many people made fun of me with my
animals, you know.
593
00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:26,480
If I come home from a hard day at the
studio and I come home to my deer,
594
00:39:27,260 --> 00:39:31,840
or my chimps, and I can hug them, and
they don't ask you anything, they don't
595
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,120
complain, you know, they don't gossip.
596
00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:39,220
They just want a hug and some love, and
get on with it. You know, where's the
597
00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:42,680
pizza? Whip out the ice cream. Because
the chimps, they love snacks.
598
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,980
And, you know, they run around, and they
help me clean the room, and they help me
599
00:39:48,980 --> 00:39:55,400
fix up things, you know, and their DNA
is literally identical to ours, if you
600
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,400
look in the microscope.
601
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,380
And they're amazing.
602
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,740
Chimps would help you clean the house?
Yeah, yeah. They help me clean up my
603
00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:03,320
room. They help me dust.
604
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,340
They do windows.
605
00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:08,340
They brush the toilet after they use the
bathroom.
606
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,760
You let the chimps use your own
bathroom? Sure, yeah, of course.
607
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,140
Bubbles would go himself.
608
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:21,200
And he'd sit at the table and he'd pick
up his spoon and his fork and he'd eat
609
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,200
and he's very polite.
610
00:40:22,380 --> 00:40:23,700
And he's very intelligent.
611
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:29,040
While in Berlin with Jackson, Martin
Bashir was invited to accompany Michael
612
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,280
and his two children on a trip to the
zoo.
613
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,620
But because someone had evidently tipped
off the press, the paparazzi were out in
614
00:40:38,620 --> 00:40:43,840
force, causing chaos and a potentially
dangerous situation for the Jackson
615
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:44,840
family.
616
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:49,300
Do you know it took us three and a half
hours to get in and out?
617
00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:52,060
and we spent four minutes in front of
the gorillas.
618
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,780
It was chaos, Mike. I was in the middle
of it. Our cameraman fell over.
619
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,900
And at one point, Prince got hurt by
someone's umbrella.
620
00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:10,360
Do you really think it was worth the
pain of three and a half hours for four
621
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:11,380
minutes in front of the gorillas?
622
00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:21,340
I didn't know that was going to happen
like that.
623
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,200
As you've seen and heard from Michael's
behind-the-scenes camera of Bashir's
624
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:30,060
interview, Bashir seems to express a
genuine concern for the welfare of
625
00:41:30,060 --> 00:41:35,160
Michael's children and raises the
question as to Michael's apparent lapse
626
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,740
of parental judgment.
627
00:41:37,460 --> 00:41:42,340
Bashir comments, it was no kind of trip
for two young children, and everyone
628
00:41:42,340 --> 00:41:44,260
could see it but Jackson himself.
629
00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:48,140
But what Bashir doesn't include is
Michael's explanation.
630
00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:52,160
that Michael was informed that the zoo
would be closed during his visit.
631
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,800
I go to the zoo all the time.
632
00:41:54,060 --> 00:41:56,560
I go usually when they close it down.
633
00:41:56,860 --> 00:42:00,640
And they told us this would be closed
down. And they didn't. They left the
634
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,860
gates open and vans and people started
pouring in.
635
00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:09,000
In fact, what the owner said, because I
was there, he actually said that his
636
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,780
view was at the end of the normal
opening hour, he would have closed the
637
00:42:13,780 --> 00:42:17,020
zoo and then just opened it for you and
your family.
638
00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:22,200
But you decided not to go then. You
wanted to go in the day rather than...
639
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:22,899
It's not true.
640
00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:23,618
Is that not true?
641
00:42:23,620 --> 00:42:27,280
It's not true. That was what he said. I
don't want to go in the day. I have a
642
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,280
problem with the sun.
643
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,780
Well, it was winter in Germany, so it
wasn't... Nighttime would have been much
644
00:42:32,780 --> 00:42:33,780
cooler. Yeah.
645
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,940
But wouldn't it have been better to have
gone at night? Yeah.
646
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:38,280
So why didn't you?
647
00:42:39,820 --> 00:42:41,420
I never knew that was the proposal.
648
00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:43,500
I thought we had a slot and that was it.
649
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,060
This was like just a misunderstanding
from the zoo.
650
00:42:47,670 --> 00:42:51,230
Park and, you know, Michael's people,
and they thought the zoo was going to be
651
00:42:51,230 --> 00:42:52,610
closed, but it wasn't.
652
00:42:53,010 --> 00:42:55,790
But that whole thing was not a big deal.
653
00:42:56,670 --> 00:43:00,410
I mean, he goes through that all the
time.
654
00:43:00,950 --> 00:43:05,290
Coming up, Michael's video cameras
capture a very revealing moment.
655
00:43:05,750 --> 00:43:08,190
But it's so quick to call you strange
and weird.
656
00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:10,750
It's almost as if you're forced to be
different.
657
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:14,450
Michael's father reacts to Bashir's
special.
658
00:43:14,790 --> 00:43:16,510
Well, one of the things that...
659
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:22,680
I can see this man tried to do. He tried
to pin something on me where I was real
660
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,020
brutal. What caused the surgery the
other special didn't tell you about?
661
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,040
He was so badly burnt on the top of his
head. The whole top of his head caught
662
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:36,020
fire right in front of my eyes. The
devastating disease that Michael claims
663
00:43:36,020 --> 00:43:37,520
turned him porcelain white.
664
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:42,800
I was putting on cream to make myself
lighter. That's not true. I didn't light
665
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,470
it. and friends of Michael who were
forced to leave their home.
666
00:43:47,590 --> 00:43:52,370
All when the Michael Jackson interview,
the footage you were never meant to see,
667
00:43:52,570 --> 00:43:53,570
continued.
668
00:43:57,050 --> 00:44:01,430
We'd like to remind you that while
Michael Jackson provided much of the
669
00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:07,310
footage you are seeing tonight, he has
absolutely no editorial control over the
670
00:44:07,310 --> 00:44:08,390
content of this program.
671
00:44:30,830 --> 00:44:35,690
In the past hour, you've seen a British
journalist ask some tough questions.
672
00:44:36,230 --> 00:44:37,630
What hurts you most?
673
00:44:38,050 --> 00:44:39,170
When they lie.
674
00:44:39,750 --> 00:44:40,750
They lie.
675
00:44:41,030 --> 00:44:42,510
They complete lie.
676
00:44:42,830 --> 00:44:44,850
And some tougher questions.
677
00:44:45,410 --> 00:44:47,810
You had sex with Debbie? Yes.
678
00:44:48,190 --> 00:44:51,210
I know that's difficult for me to say
because you're so embarrassed.
679
00:44:51,870 --> 00:44:55,950
You're about to hear Michael Jackson's
family rally around him, voicing their
680
00:44:55,950 --> 00:44:59,130
support. They can go and talk to these
children all they want. They're not
681
00:44:59,130 --> 00:45:02,590
going to find anything. What they need
to do is leave him alone.
682
00:45:02,970 --> 00:45:04,490
And voicing their disagreement.
683
00:45:05,110 --> 00:45:07,590
I hear Michael saying that he's lonely.
684
00:45:08,290 --> 00:45:11,730
Back in those days, Michael had his
brothers. He had all his brothers to
685
00:45:11,730 --> 00:45:12,488
play with.
686
00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:16,170
You've seen Michael's ex-wife come
forward for the first time with
687
00:45:16,170 --> 00:45:17,170
expressions of emotion.
688
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:19,880
I've never seen him that happy.
689
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:27,100
And that's what made it wonderful for
me.
690
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,240
And expressions of strength.
691
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:33,820
I did not leave my children. My children
are with their father, where they're
692
00:45:33,820 --> 00:45:34,820
supposed to be.
693
00:45:34,860 --> 00:45:40,000
But most of all, you've seen Michael
Jackson's own private cameras catch the
694
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,580
good. I think God out there is something
between the children.
695
00:45:43,940 --> 00:45:44,940
The bad.
696
00:45:45,630 --> 00:45:51,050
If you dangle blanket over a balcony,
you are going to be severely criticized.
697
00:45:51,510 --> 00:45:52,510
The strange.
698
00:45:52,610 --> 00:45:55,390
You let the chimps use your own
bathroom? Sure, yeah, of course.
699
00:45:56,330 --> 00:45:57,950
Bubbles will go in itself.
700
00:45:58,230 --> 00:45:59,630
And the strangely human.
701
00:46:00,050 --> 00:46:01,050
I am Peter Pan.
702
00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:03,710
Are you not your Michael Jackson?
703
00:46:03,930 --> 00:46:05,130
I'm Peter Pan, my heart.
704
00:46:11,510 --> 00:46:14,690
But what you've seen so far is only the
beginning.
705
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:20,000
of the Michael Jackson interview, the
footage you were never meant to see.
706
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:28,680
In
707
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:35,520
addition
708
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,220
to revisiting the interviews with
Michael Jackson that were contained in
709
00:46:39,220 --> 00:46:42,980
the ABC special, we've also asked
members of the Jackson family to
710
00:46:42,980 --> 00:46:46,490
comment. on the information that the
special chose to include.
711
00:46:47,010 --> 00:46:51,070
While the Jacksons are a very supportive
family, not all of what they have to say
712
00:46:51,070 --> 00:46:55,470
is in complete agreement with Michael.
And many of the comments you'll hear
713
00:46:55,470 --> 00:46:58,910
have never been revealed publicly until
now.
714
00:46:59,570 --> 00:47:04,990
We're trying to get above all of this,
the way of being united together. We
715
00:47:04,990 --> 00:47:09,590
don't like what some of the things are
being said out there, but when you're
716
00:47:09,590 --> 00:47:11,970
number one out there all over the world,
you're...
717
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:15,070
Get those kind of pot shots at you at
all times.
718
00:47:15,530 --> 00:47:21,750
You've been so successful, and you've
amassed so much wealth, you never need
719
00:47:21,750 --> 00:47:22,750
to work again.
720
00:47:23,570 --> 00:47:25,830
And yet you don't seem to be able to
enjoy it.
721
00:47:27,490 --> 00:47:30,470
It seems that you're restricted somehow.
722
00:47:31,410 --> 00:47:33,030
I enjoy it to my children.
723
00:47:33,370 --> 00:47:34,770
But I'm talking about you.
724
00:47:35,990 --> 00:47:37,870
You just don't seem to enjoy it.
725
00:47:38,670 --> 00:47:39,670
Enjoy what?
726
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,200
Enjoy your success. Enjoy your work.
727
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,360
It's hard to... I can enjoy it behind my
gaze.
728
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,380
But I can't go out and enjoy it because
it becomes work all over again.
729
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,540
Working has been Michael's life from the
time he was five years old.
730
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,860
Oh, darling, I was blind to let you go.
731
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:03,120
And as we've already seen, missing out
on his childhood continues to affect him
732
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,280
to this very day.
733
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,260
You often seem very lonely.
734
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:13,880
Is that true?
735
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,120
I used to be very lonely.
736
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,300
Painful. I had no idea.
737
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,160
I used to walk the streets looking for
people to talk to.
738
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,000
I hear Micah saying that he's lonely.
739
00:48:32,340 --> 00:48:36,240
But back in those days, Micah had his
brothers. He had all his brothers to
740
00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:37,218
play with.
741
00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:39,220
And so, you know.
742
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:43,200
And the kids that he brought all the
candy around, he'd buy so much candy and
743
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,880
the kids would be in a circle, standing
around in a circle.
744
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:50,040
And they'd all be eating candy off the
allowance I had given him.
745
00:48:50,420 --> 00:48:54,060
But one thing he enjoyed was to see
those kids eating that candy and he'd be
746
00:48:54,060 --> 00:48:59,400
laughing. Once you're surrounded by your
family, by musicians, by people wanting
747
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,320
to be your friend, you were an
international superstar.
748
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,380
How can you say you had no friends?
749
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:06,080
Because those people...
750
00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:10,680
spoke to me on a language on another
level that was musical, that was
751
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:15,760
entertainment, but to get away from
that, to separate oneself from that, and
752
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,880
to try to discover the fun things about
life.
753
00:49:19,860 --> 00:49:21,420
When do you feel that?
754
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,240
When do I feel alone?
755
00:49:28,940 --> 00:49:32,500
I mean, I can be, you know, usually in
hotels.
756
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:40,360
Thousands of friends chanting, you're
out in the street, moving sleeping bags,
757
00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:44,060
and you're chanting, and they love you
and everything, and you can't get out,
758
00:49:44,060 --> 00:49:49,040
you feel trapped inside, and you just
cry, and you feel alone, you know?
759
00:49:49,420 --> 00:49:54,540
And there's all that love out there, but
you really do feel trapped and alone,
760
00:49:54,740 --> 00:49:59,380
that you can't get out. And if you go to
a bookstore, if you go out, if you go to
761
00:49:59,380 --> 00:50:03,220
a club, which I don't like clubs, you
know,
762
00:50:04,069 --> 00:50:07,510
Every book you buy, they wonder, why are
you buying this? Why is Michael Jackson
763
00:50:07,510 --> 00:50:08,269
buying this?
764
00:50:08,270 --> 00:50:09,450
Why is he reading this?
765
00:50:09,770 --> 00:50:14,290
Or you go to the club. As soon as you go
in there, every song is my song, as if I
766
00:50:14,290 --> 00:50:15,290
want to hear my music.
767
00:50:16,110 --> 00:50:18,590
And everybody starts chanting for me to
dance.
768
00:50:19,210 --> 00:50:22,810
So it becomes a show all over again. So
you can't go anywhere.
769
00:50:23,070 --> 00:50:24,930
So wherever you go, you know.
770
00:50:27,070 --> 00:50:29,870
That's not much of a life, is it? I
know. It's difficult.
771
00:50:30,330 --> 00:50:33,930
And I don't want to complain like I'm
complaining because it comes with the
772
00:50:33,930 --> 00:50:37,690
territory, but I don't think people
understand the other side that comes
773
00:50:37,690 --> 00:50:42,290
with it. So they're so quick to call you
strange and weird, but it's almost as if
774
00:50:42,290 --> 00:50:47,010
you're forced to be different because
it's not normal life, you know?
775
00:50:47,370 --> 00:50:52,290
I can do the normal things, go to the
store and buy a piece of bread, a piece
776
00:50:52,290 --> 00:50:54,110
of candy or something. He can't do that.
777
00:50:54,670 --> 00:50:58,670
So that would cause you to become a
recluse or to sort of be withdrawn.
778
00:50:59,010 --> 00:51:03,670
Do you not sometimes wish that you could
go to the local store and buy yourself
779
00:51:03,670 --> 00:51:07,690
some food and come back? Of course. I
want to go to the market, like one of
780
00:51:07,690 --> 00:51:12,430
those markets, and take one of those
carts and throw some food in there and
781
00:51:12,430 --> 00:51:13,430
go down the aisle.
782
00:51:14,030 --> 00:51:15,310
I would love to do that.
783
00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:16,368
Can you do that?
784
00:51:16,370 --> 00:51:18,170
No. Of course not.
785
00:51:18,730 --> 00:51:19,730
Of course not.
786
00:51:20,930 --> 00:51:22,770
I tried in the...
787
00:51:23,340 --> 00:51:24,960
The whole place stops.
788
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,500
Everybody's chanting and getting an
autograph.
789
00:51:30,580 --> 00:51:31,580
It's hard.
790
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:32,900
It doesn't work.
791
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:37,440
That's why I love putting on disguises.
One of the disguises Michael would wear
792
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:42,300
in public was from his music video,
Ghost, a makeup process that took
793
00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:47,860
several hours and would turn him into a
completely unrecognizable and very large
794
00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:48,900
white man.
795
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,660
I'd sit on a bench at Disneyland on
Thanksgiving.
796
00:51:53,150 --> 00:51:58,470
I sit there and I love it. I love
watching people, studying people's
797
00:51:58,470 --> 00:52:01,390
characters. That's what I like. I like
going inside.
798
00:52:02,230 --> 00:52:03,770
That's sending performance.
799
00:52:05,230 --> 00:52:10,650
You can tell right away when an artist,
you can read on her face when she's
800
00:52:10,650 --> 00:52:15,430
dancing, she's counting one and two and
three and four and five and six and six.
801
00:52:15,730 --> 00:52:18,710
But when you, that's the wrong concept
for dance.
802
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:22,760
Dancing is about feeling, not about
thinking. So when they count, they're
803
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:29,360
thinking. To feel, become the bass,
become the drums, become the guitar, the
804
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,260
drums. You become a oneness, you know?
805
00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:45,440
That's very important, but that's real.
806
00:52:46,030 --> 00:52:48,850
But that's Michael Jackson talking as a
performer.
807
00:52:49,770 --> 00:52:54,590
But that's not Michael Jackson the
person.
808
00:52:59,590 --> 00:53:03,350
One of the most compelling and revealing
lines of questioning that Martin Bashir
809
00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:07,290
pursued had to do with the strict
discipline that Michael and his brothers
810
00:53:07,290 --> 00:53:08,850
endured at the hands of their fathers.
811
00:53:09,470 --> 00:53:13,790
Unfortunately, this is footage that Mr.
Bashir and his producers have not
812
00:53:13,790 --> 00:53:14,950
allowed us to show you.
813
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:20,080
But we can tell you that it was a very
emotional description of beatings with
814
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,500
belts and the cords from irons.
815
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:25,820
You remember when you said to me that
you just wanted to run away from your
816
00:53:25,820 --> 00:53:27,380
father? I did.
817
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:28,640
I used to hide.
818
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:35,780
Well, one of the things I can see this
man tried to do, he tried to pin
819
00:53:35,780 --> 00:53:38,160
something on me where I was real brutal.
820
00:53:38,780 --> 00:53:42,720
And raising these guys, Jermaine and all
the rest of them, they all got
821
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:43,720
whippings.
822
00:53:43,950 --> 00:53:46,330
They didn't get no beatings, you know.
They got a reference.
823
00:53:46,810 --> 00:53:49,950
We were disciplined in the way in which
he knew.
824
00:53:50,150 --> 00:53:55,990
And during that time, all children and
parents at the time, with their kids, we
825
00:53:55,990 --> 00:54:00,150
had to be in before the lights were on
at night, and we had to ask for things.
826
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:04,890
And I thought it was great because it
allowed us to become what we became.
827
00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:08,980
We never got on drugs. We never got in
trouble.
828
00:54:09,260 --> 00:54:14,140
And I see the difference from my
upbringing as when I came to California
829
00:54:14,140 --> 00:54:17,320
and friends as I went to school with how
they would curse the parents out and
830
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:22,020
slam the door and disrespect them.
Joseph didn't beat them or anything like
831
00:54:22,020 --> 00:54:26,180
that. We just disciplined them out of
love. And the Bible says if you love a
832
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:27,440
child, you will discipline them.
833
00:54:27,820 --> 00:54:31,660
The discussion of the strict discipline
and verbal abuse by Michael's father.
834
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,780
went on for almost eight minutes, and
Mr. Beshear's finished special.
835
00:54:36,460 --> 00:54:41,360
But what he did not include was a short
but very revealing comment from Michael
836
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:42,820
about his father.
837
00:54:43,660 --> 00:54:44,660
He did.
838
00:54:45,020 --> 00:54:50,980
I don't think how he hurt me when he was
little, but he's a genius. The man is a
839
00:54:50,980 --> 00:54:53,400
genius. At the same time, he was a
genius.
840
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:54,740
He really is.
841
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:58,760
But Michael, he injured you when you
were a child.
842
00:54:58,980 --> 00:55:00,500
Yeah, but look what came out of it.
843
00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:03,980
Well, maybe I wouldn't have the
infection for the kids that I have today
844
00:55:03,980 --> 00:55:04,980
and wanted to help them.
845
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,460
Without a doubt, one of the most
controversial topics of Michael
846
00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:42,880
Jackson's life is his relationship with
children. The scandals and rumors
847
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:47,080
surrounding allegations made against
Jackson are the subject of seemingly
848
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,140
endless speculation.
849
00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:53,480
As we told you before, Michael Jackson
has no editorial control over the
850
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:54,480
content of this program.
851
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:59,760
What you see and hear is intended to be
an unbiased presentation that allows you
852
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,380
to draw your own conclusions.
853
00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:03,280
Some years ago,
854
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:09,700
You yourself were about to embark on a
tour and allegations were made about you
855
00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:10,700
and children.
856
00:56:11,140 --> 00:56:15,220
What about 1993? What happened? What was
Michael Jackson doing?
857
00:56:19,180 --> 00:56:26,000
He would never
858
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,200
hurt a child. Never.
859
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:28,960
It's not in him.
860
00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:32,500
It's... No way.
861
00:56:33,020 --> 00:56:36,740
He would never do anything inappropriate
with a child.
862
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,740
It's the furthest thing from his mind.
863
00:56:41,660 --> 00:56:48,640
When those allegations came in 93, I
think it was, he
864
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:49,640
was devastated.
865
00:56:50,380 --> 00:56:52,640
I mean, talk about going for the
jugular.
866
00:56:53,620 --> 00:56:58,120
At every opportunity, the media has
dissected and manipulated these
867
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,160
allegations to reach their own
conclusions.
868
00:57:01,230 --> 00:57:05,670
I ask all of you to wait and hear the
truth before you label or condemn me.
869
00:57:05,910 --> 00:57:10,670
I watched Michael after they accused him
of that child molestation.
870
00:57:12,250 --> 00:57:18,790
But at first he was a little lonely and
all, but he never stopped because he
871
00:57:18,790 --> 00:57:19,790
knew it wasn't the truth.
872
00:57:20,010 --> 00:57:21,850
And he never stopped loving children.
873
00:57:22,210 --> 00:57:24,550
No, that's what I admire about him. He
keeps going.
874
00:57:25,670 --> 00:57:26,950
He's not going to give up.
875
00:57:27,630 --> 00:57:30,570
And he's going to still give to all of
us. I just know it.
876
00:57:31,580 --> 00:57:33,200
And Brashears will come and go.
877
00:57:34,140 --> 00:57:35,140
You know?
878
00:57:35,580 --> 00:57:36,660
Michael will live forever.
879
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,220
Apparently, there's some confusion with
sleeping in beds.
880
00:57:47,060 --> 00:57:49,780
My favorite thing to do is to sit in bed
and watch TV.
881
00:57:50,740 --> 00:57:55,240
If you're coming over, take your shoes
off, get on the bed, or watch the TV.
882
00:57:56,020 --> 00:57:59,720
Michael was never indicted. He was never
charged. He was never anything.
883
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:03,860
They came in this house, right, and they
tore this house apart.
884
00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:05,660
They went in my mother's safe.
885
00:58:06,460 --> 00:58:12,940
They tore it up, and they went in my
mother's hyperpressure pills, and they
886
00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:17,100
were looking at, I mean, just what were
they looking for? They were trying and
887
00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:20,240
trying to try to get some crap on
Michael that was not true.
888
00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:21,740
What hurts you most?
889
00:58:22,380 --> 00:58:23,380
When they lie.
890
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:25,100
They lie.
891
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:26,600
They complete lies.
892
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:28,600
I mean, it hurts.
893
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,700
And it hurts me because I know there's
children out there who have to hear that
894
00:58:32,700 --> 00:58:39,360
crap. Why do people do that when all you
have done is brought
895
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:45,840
some of the most beautiful music, most
beautiful popular music that many of us
896
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:46,839
have ever heard?
897
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:51,640
Why do people want to judge you if all
you've done is been an artist and
898
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,160
brought wonderful music?
899
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:57,040
People become jealous.
900
00:58:58,660 --> 00:59:00,140
It hurts to be misunderstood.
901
00:59:01,060 --> 00:59:05,520
No matter how much you try to put people
on track, there will still be some
902
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,840
judgment that is so far from the truth.
903
00:59:11,460 --> 00:59:15,660
Following the broadcast of Mr. Beshear's
special, the speculation about what went
904
00:59:15,660 --> 00:59:21,040
on in Jackson's private life was once
again headline news, primarily due to
905
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:25,360
the story of Gavin, a young man who had
reportedly been dying of cancer.
906
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,480
Gavin was somebody who was diagnosed
with cancer.
907
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,960
Doctors gave him, I think, three weeks
or one month to live.
908
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:37,660
One of his last wishes was to meet
Michael, a request fulfilled through Los
909
00:59:37,660 --> 00:59:39,920
Angeles businessman Jamie Masada.
910
00:59:40,180 --> 00:59:44,280
Then he said to me, he said, under his
breath, he said, I want to meet Michael
911
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:49,700
Jackson. At that point, I didn't know
Michael Jackson. And I just came out of
912
00:59:49,700 --> 00:59:51,720
the room, I started crying.
913
00:59:52,350 --> 00:59:53,470
I didn't know what to do.
914
00:59:53,750 --> 00:59:58,250
I called Neverland. I said, is there any
way you can get a chance to call the
915
00:59:58,250 --> 01:00:02,510
kid? They're not coming next day. And I
said, Gavin, he had a little smile on
916
01:00:02,510 --> 01:00:03,089
his face.
917
01:00:03,090 --> 01:00:06,170
I said, Gavin, what's going on? He said,
Michael, call me.
918
01:00:07,150 --> 01:00:11,050
Gavin and his family formed an immediate
bond with Jackson, creating an
919
01:00:11,050 --> 01:00:14,350
atmosphere that many believe played a
large part in Gavin's recovery.
920
01:00:14,910 --> 01:00:18,650
You know, two and a half years ago, the
doctor, they said, two more weeks, he's
921
01:00:18,650 --> 01:00:19,650
dead.
922
01:00:19,850 --> 01:00:20,850
Now he's alive.
923
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,180
His appearance on the Bashir special
showed a seemingly healthy and happy
924
01:00:25,180 --> 01:00:29,980
young man, clearly very fond of Jackson.
And while Mr. Bashir did touch on
925
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:34,780
Gavin's amazing recovery, many believe
that the real focus was on Michael's
926
01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:38,640
relationship with the young man,
especially the revelation that they had
927
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,480
spent the night in the same room.
928
01:00:40,860 --> 01:00:44,660
The thing that upsets me right now, the
reason I'm giving you the interview,
929
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,360
because Gavin called me, he was crying
on the phone.
930
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,060
He went in gas station. The kid in gas
station, they start kidding.
931
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,200
Oh, you are the kid doing this with
Michael. You slept with Michael.
932
01:00:54,460 --> 01:00:59,400
It's horrible to do to a kid. This kid
been through life. He been through
933
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:04,460
horrible life so far. Since Mr. Bashir's
documentary aired, Gavin and his mother
934
01:01:04,460 --> 01:01:09,300
have gone into seclusion after being
bombarded by requests for interviews
935
01:01:09,300 --> 01:01:11,300
from tabloids around the world.
936
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:17,320
This statement released to the press by
Gavin's mother says, I'm appalled at the
937
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,160
way in which my son has been exploited
by Martin Bashir.
938
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:24,820
The relationship that Michael has with
my three children is a beautiful, loving
939
01:01:24,820 --> 01:01:26,720
father, sons, and daughter one.
940
01:01:27,060 --> 01:01:31,600
To my children and me, Michael is a part
of our family. In addition, she is
941
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:35,700
considering action against Mr. Bashir
for including Gavin in his special
942
01:01:35,700 --> 01:01:37,540
without parental consent.
943
01:01:39,340 --> 01:01:41,460
It can only take the lies for so long.
944
01:01:43,380 --> 01:01:44,840
And I've reached my limit.
945
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,420
And that's why I'm doing this.
946
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,560
I'm not here to defend my boss.
947
01:01:51,340 --> 01:01:53,160
I'm here to tell the truth.
948
01:01:53,600 --> 01:02:00,300
I didn't really know how you behave with
the people who come to the
949
01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:02,120
ramps and come to your home.
950
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:04,020
I hadn't seen it.
951
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,640
And you were the most generous person.
952
01:02:10,620 --> 01:02:12,500
But I looked around here yesterday.
953
01:02:13,340 --> 01:02:15,660
And some of the people really
appreciated it.
954
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:17,660
But others were greedy.
955
01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:19,780
Others couldn't help themselves.
956
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,580
Do you sometimes despair of human
nature?
957
01:02:28,140 --> 01:02:29,140
Yes.
958
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,940
One of the topics repeatedly brought up
in Martin Bashir's interview is the same
959
01:02:34,940 --> 01:02:38,580
one that has been the subject of
speculation by countless tabloids, talk
960
01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:41,700
shows, and comic monologues for over 20
years.
961
01:02:42,090 --> 01:02:44,710
Michael Jackson's changing appearance.
962
01:02:45,490 --> 01:02:52,390
Having surgery or changes or whatever,
cosmetic surgery or anything
963
01:02:52,390 --> 01:02:55,630
like that, people have that sort of
thing in this country all the time. All
964
01:02:55,630 --> 01:02:56,288
the time.
965
01:02:56,290 --> 01:02:59,950
People go on a weekly basis to have
things changed.
966
01:03:00,350 --> 01:03:03,850
And all celebrities, most movies die,
you know.
967
01:03:04,810 --> 01:03:07,770
So why is it such an issue that you do
that?
968
01:03:08,130 --> 01:03:10,450
But the fact that they said I...
969
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:16,920
Like I'm overly obsessed with it. It's
not true.
970
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:20,000
The things they've said that I've done
are not true.
971
01:03:20,220 --> 01:03:23,140
I haven't had my eyes done. I haven't
had my cheekbones done.
972
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:24,680
I haven't had my lips done.
973
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:26,420
I haven't had my tan done.
974
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:28,280
That's a lie.
975
01:03:29,570 --> 01:03:34,550
In the final interview eight months
later, Martin Bashir is still doggedly
976
01:03:34,550 --> 01:03:36,970
pursuing rumors of Michael's plastic
surgery.
977
01:03:39,830 --> 01:03:46,690
An area of his life Bashir said he felt
Michael had been less than honest about.
978
01:03:55,420 --> 01:03:57,520
Yeah, but even the shape of your face
has changed.
979
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:01,760
Do
980
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:13,900
you
981
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:17,740
think that people do go too far with
plastic surgery, generally?
982
01:04:17,980 --> 01:04:22,800
Do you think it's become... So why are
you so defensive when people say Mick
983
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:23,800
Jagger's had one?
984
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,440
Paul McCartney may have had one. Oh,
Michael Jackson had one.
985
01:04:26,700 --> 01:04:29,420
They don't do it that way. What do they
do? They just pick on me like I'm the
986
01:04:29,420 --> 01:04:30,900
only one that does it. That's why.
987
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,980
So if people said, well, actually,
Michael's the same as everyone else,
988
01:04:36,140 --> 01:04:38,980
then it wouldn't upset you so much. It
would upset me so much.
989
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,800
You know, if you want to have a
facelift, you have a facelift. Yeah, if
990
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:42,800
it makes you happy.
991
01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:47,040
Regardless of your opinion about the
extent of Michael's plastic surgery, one
992
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:48,040
fact is clear.
993
01:04:48,460 --> 01:04:52,440
Martin Bashir's TV special made only
passing reference to one of the most
994
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,740
noticeable differences in Michael's
appearance.
995
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:59,980
Bashir quoted people as saying that when
Michael Jackson was a boy, he was a
996
01:04:59,980 --> 01:05:00,779
black kid.
997
01:05:00,780 --> 01:05:04,040
And now as an adult, he looks like a
white man.
998
01:05:04,340 --> 01:05:09,020
Which was a rumor. They said I was
putting on cream to make myself lighter.
999
01:05:09,220 --> 01:05:11,720
That's not true. I have vitiligo. You
have a condition.
1000
01:05:12,260 --> 01:05:15,940
Vitiligo is a medical condition that
Jackson claims has afflicted him for
1001
01:05:15,940 --> 01:05:16,940
more than 20 years.
1002
01:05:17,150 --> 01:05:21,250
This disfiguring skin disease affects
nearly 2% of the world's population and
1003
01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:25,590
strips all pigmentation from the skin.
The result is not just pale, but
1004
01:05:25,590 --> 01:05:26,590
porcelain white.
1005
01:05:26,730 --> 01:05:31,250
The beginning of the vitiligo happened,
started happening relatively early.
1006
01:05:31,570 --> 01:05:34,830
You know, he even was trying to hide it
from me.
1007
01:05:35,150 --> 01:05:39,670
He tried to hide it for quite a while.
You know, he'd always try to cover with
1008
01:05:39,670 --> 01:05:43,690
makeup and even out his skin tone and
everything until it just...
1009
01:05:44,350 --> 01:05:47,390
got so extensive. I mean, it's all over
his body.
1010
01:05:47,710 --> 01:05:53,110
We were always trying to hide it and
cover it for the longest time until he
1011
01:05:53,110 --> 01:05:58,070
just had to tell Oprah and tell the
world, listen, I'm not trying to be
1012
01:05:58,070 --> 01:05:59,690
white. I have a skin disease.
1013
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:04,900
The loss of pigment exposes vitiligo
sufferers to great risk of skin cancer,
1014
01:06:05,140 --> 01:06:10,060
requiring constant shade from the sun
and thick makeup or sunblock to lessen
1015
01:06:10,060 --> 01:06:10,859
the exposure.
1016
01:06:10,860 --> 01:06:15,100
You know, in the beginning, I tried to
cover the light spots to the darkest
1017
01:06:15,100 --> 01:06:19,960
part of his skin, but then it became so
extensive that we had to go with the
1018
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,040
lighter part of his skin because his
whole body was reacting. He'd have to be
1019
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:28,640
in complete, full body makeup every inch
of his body.
1020
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:35,300
So it was easier to make the transition
to him being to the lighter shade that
1021
01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:35,919
he is.
1022
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:41,580
But for Michael, one of the most painful
side effects of vitiligo is the reminder
1023
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:45,900
of the earlier skin trauma that
humiliated him as a child.
1024
01:06:46,660 --> 01:06:52,980
You talked about how when you went
through adolescence, you had a terrible
1025
01:06:52,980 --> 01:06:57,460
time. And in fact, I had a look at some
pictures of you.
1026
01:06:57,790 --> 01:06:58,790
During that period.
1027
01:06:59,490 --> 01:07:01,550
And you did have a lot of spots.
1028
01:07:02,070 --> 01:07:03,070
Yeah.
1029
01:07:04,650 --> 01:07:09,730
Yeah. And being shy as I am and was,
it's even worse.
1030
01:07:10,030 --> 01:07:12,850
It's terrible. It's like a disease.
1031
01:07:13,390 --> 01:07:16,910
Perhaps the most startling omission
regarding Michael's history of plastic
1032
01:07:16,910 --> 01:07:21,630
surgery came during a discussion of the
procedures that Michael admits to
1033
01:07:21,630 --> 01:07:22,630
having.
1034
01:07:22,710 --> 01:07:26,470
You're saying you've only ever had one
piece of surgery on your nose?
1035
01:07:28,020 --> 01:07:29,340
Two. You've had two?
1036
01:07:29,980 --> 01:07:33,160
This is where the TV show stops.
1037
01:07:33,540 --> 01:07:37,800
But had they included Michael's answer
from just ten seconds earlier, they
1038
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:41,640
would have allowed him to remind us of a
serious injury that severely affected
1039
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:42,640
his appearance.
1040
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,860
No, no, no. I was severely burned. Yeah.
1041
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,640
But apart from having that surgery
because of obviously the injury of the
1042
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:51,640
fire.
1043
01:07:53,390 --> 01:07:55,490
January 27, 1984.
1044
01:07:56,010 --> 01:07:59,170
Michael was shooting a commercial that
attempted to duplicate a concert
1045
01:07:59,170 --> 01:08:00,170
performance.
1046
01:08:07,690 --> 01:08:12,650
During the last take, a planned
pyrotechnic explosion went wrong and
1047
01:08:12,650 --> 01:08:14,330
ignited Michael's hair on fire.
1048
01:08:18,109 --> 01:08:19,990
He was so badly burned.
1049
01:08:20,430 --> 01:08:24,910
On the top of his head caught fire right
in front of my eyes.
1050
01:08:25,149 --> 01:08:28,649
And I couldn't do anything about it. I
couldn't get to him on time.
1051
01:08:37,370 --> 01:08:44,350
But Miko, Marlon Brando's son, was able
to push away the barricades and jump
1052
01:08:44,350 --> 01:08:46,850
on him and put out the fire with his
bare hands.
1053
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:51,620
He will have nursing and medical
personnel on call 24 hours a day.
1054
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:56,140
Due to his very excellent health and his
very strong personal and religious
1055
01:08:56,140 --> 01:08:59,920
commitments, he will have as excellent a
recovery as is possible.
1056
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:04,060
Michael was rushed to the hospital,
where he was treated for second and
1057
01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:05,060
third degree burns.
1058
01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:09,520
He later underwent skin graft surgery in
an attempt to repair the damage.
1059
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:15,680
But as we noted, as severe as this
incident was, it was completely ignored
1060
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:16,680
by Bashir.
1061
01:09:16,970 --> 01:09:17,970
You've done nothing to your cheek?
1062
01:09:18,689 --> 01:09:21,069
Uh, no, no, no.
1063
01:09:21,290 --> 01:09:22,290
These cheekbones?
1064
01:09:22,330 --> 01:09:23,330
Yeah. Oh.
1065
01:09:23,490 --> 01:09:24,750
You haven't had any inserts?
1066
01:09:25,069 --> 01:09:26,069
No.
1067
01:09:26,450 --> 01:09:29,810
My father had... What about your dental?
1068
01:09:30,050 --> 01:09:32,910
Can we get on with plastic surgery,
garbage?
1069
01:09:33,170 --> 01:09:38,130
It's tabloid stuff. Well... You'll be
young. I know. Well, I know the problem
1070
01:09:38,130 --> 01:09:42,590
is... It's tabloid. When we return,
we'll take another look at some of the
1071
01:09:42,590 --> 01:09:44,250
answers that were never heard.
1072
01:09:44,529 --> 01:09:45,870
They call me weird overnight.
1073
01:09:46,940 --> 01:09:52,020
strange, wacko, you know, they said I'm
a girl, homosexual,
1074
01:09:52,700 --> 01:09:59,020
he wants to bite elephant man bones, he
sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber. None of
1075
01:09:59,020 --> 01:10:00,020
that stuff is true.
1076
01:10:00,100 --> 01:10:02,060
And some of the differences in opinion.
1077
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,440
So you're happy you did it now?
1078
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:07,080
Yeah, because I've shared... Even though
you've been attacked, even though people
1079
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,520
in America say you shouldn't look after
your own children?
1080
01:10:09,820 --> 01:10:14,260
Yeah, but a lot of people said, leave
him alone, shut the hell up.
1081
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:19,600
All caught on Michael Jackson's own
camera.
1082
01:10:23,460 --> 01:10:28,700
When we return to the Michael Jackson
interview, the footage you were never
1083
01:10:28,700 --> 01:10:29,700
meant to see.
1084
01:11:07,660 --> 01:11:10,320
One of the basic qualities of respected
journalism is objectivity.
1085
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:14,000
Now, as you may have heard in several
recent news stories, one of Michael
1086
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:17,640
Jackson's prime complaints about the
reporting featured in Martin Bashir's
1087
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:21,780
documentary and subsequent interviews
with the press was his lack of
1088
01:11:21,780 --> 01:11:26,880
objectivity. As we've already seen, some
of Mr. Bashir's comments that made the
1089
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:31,180
air appear to be quite different than
opinions he expressed in Jackson's
1090
01:11:31,180 --> 01:11:32,180
behind-the-scenes footage.
1091
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:37,080
About Michael's ranch, Mr. Bashir's
on-air comment was...
1092
01:11:37,770 --> 01:11:40,950
One of the most disturbing things is the
fact that a lot of disadvantaged
1093
01:11:40,950 --> 01:11:45,530
children go to Neverland. It's a
dangerous place for a vulnerable child
1094
01:11:45,530 --> 01:11:46,530
to be.
1095
01:11:46,870 --> 01:11:49,730
But what he said behind the scenes was
this.
1096
01:11:53,870 --> 01:12:00,450
This comment about
1097
01:12:00,450 --> 01:12:03,970
Michael's method of raising children was
included on Bashir's special.
1098
01:12:04,950 --> 01:12:06,070
They are restricted.
1099
01:12:06,540 --> 01:12:07,600
They are overly protected.
1100
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:11,560
I was angry at the way his children were
made to suffer.
1101
01:12:11,980 --> 01:12:13,620
But this was not.
1102
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:16,520
Your relationship with your children is
spectacular.
1103
01:12:17,100 --> 01:12:18,100
Hello.
1104
01:12:18,820 --> 01:12:22,400
And in fact, it almost makes me weep
when I see you with them.
1105
01:12:22,740 --> 01:12:27,500
Another of Jackson's complaints about
the documentary is the non-inclusion of
1106
01:12:27,500 --> 01:12:30,960
certain statements that he feels are
pertinent to objective reporting.
1107
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:35,680
Like when Bashir devoted almost... Eight
minutes to the abuse by Michael's
1108
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:38,580
father? You remember when you said to me
that you just wanted to run away from
1109
01:12:38,580 --> 01:12:39,539
your father?
1110
01:12:39,540 --> 01:12:40,540
I did.
1111
01:12:40,580 --> 01:12:41,580
I did not hide.
1112
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:45,100
But did not include this short and
revealing comment.
1113
01:12:45,460 --> 01:12:49,420
He hurt me when he was little, but he's
a genius. The man is a genius.
1114
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:55,840
On Michael's taking his children to the
zoo, Bashir says it was no kind of trip
1115
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,660
for two young children, and everyone
could see it but Jackson himself.
1116
01:13:00,060 --> 01:13:02,810
But what you don't hear... is Michael's
response.
1117
01:13:05,670 --> 01:13:12,390
And as far as
1118
01:13:12,390 --> 01:13:16,470
probing for the truth about Michael's
changing appearance, the subject of
1119
01:13:16,470 --> 01:13:18,470
vitiligo was virtually ignored.
1120
01:13:18,770 --> 01:13:24,770
And the severe burns and reconstructive
surgery were never mentioned at all.
1121
01:13:30,150 --> 01:13:34,510
Regardless of whether you feel that
Michael Jackson is correct in his
1122
01:13:34,510 --> 01:13:37,350
assertion that Martin Bashir's
documentary was not a true
1123
01:13:37,350 --> 01:13:41,150
representation of the interviews that
actually took place, there is one
1124
01:13:41,150 --> 01:13:43,050
question that many people share.
1125
01:13:43,310 --> 01:13:48,410
How could Michael Jackson, a 44-year-old
man who has spent most of his life in
1126
01:13:48,410 --> 01:13:52,210
the spotlight, have allowed himself to
open up to a virtual stranger?
1127
01:13:52,570 --> 01:13:54,270
This footage from Michael's camera.
1128
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,100
may give you a better understanding.
1129
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:05,540
It seems to me that through history,
people,
1130
01:14:05,700 --> 01:14:11,540
they really want to make someone big,
and they want to be, oh, this person is
1131
01:14:11,540 --> 01:14:14,500
so talented, and we've got to make them
godlike, and they have to be perfect.
1132
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:20,180
And then as soon as they're there, they
get more joy in tearing someone down.
1133
01:14:21,740 --> 01:14:26,140
Eventually, when you talk and you say it
like it really is, you just light up.
1134
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,160
That's what I meant.
1135
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:30,520
It's about bringing out what you're
about.
1136
01:14:31,540 --> 01:14:38,440
That whole special, it was just an
attempt to tear him
1137
01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:43,260
apart. And he trusted. He trusted Martin
Beshear.
1138
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:48,560
They took this thing back to the studio,
and they took a lot of things out.
1139
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:53,460
And the way this thing was narrated, it
was just not fair.
1140
01:14:56,180 --> 01:14:56,780
And
1141
01:14:56,780 --> 01:15:07,420
then
1142
01:15:07,420 --> 01:15:14,060
slowly he started bringing his own
opinion into the picture.
1143
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,480
As a reporter, as a news, I like to see
the truth.
1144
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,800
Then I'll decide what my take would be
on it.
1145
01:15:22,820 --> 01:15:28,440
It's not just you, though. You can see
that.
1146
01:15:28,820 --> 01:15:30,000
Rashears will come and go.
1147
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:31,880
You know?
1148
01:15:32,340 --> 01:15:33,520
Michael will live forever.
1149
01:15:33,740 --> 01:15:34,860
In everybody's heart.
1150
01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:40,840
If indeed...
1151
01:15:45,950 --> 01:15:51,850
This video, whatever it was that was
shot, is supposed to be about Michael.
1152
01:15:52,370 --> 01:15:58,190
Then it will show him as a caring,
loving, understanding
1153
01:15:58,190 --> 01:16:03,130
father, person, human being.
1154
01:16:04,690 --> 01:16:05,910
Because that's what he is.
1155
01:16:06,770 --> 01:16:11,170
No matter what you may feel about what
you've seen on this program, it's hard
1156
01:16:11,170 --> 01:16:12,059
to deny.
1157
01:16:12,060 --> 01:16:16,040
that Michael Jackson is a complex and
controversial subject who elicits a
1158
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passionate response from virtually
everyone who comes in contact with him,
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whether through his music or his private
life.
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In the past two hours, our only goal has
been to present an objective view of
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events, showing them as they actually
occurred and allowing you to draw your
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01:16:31,980 --> 01:16:32,980
own conclusion.
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But we do feel it's appropriate to leave
you with one more piece of information.
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Mr. Bashir is quoted as saying, Michael
Jackson is a marvelous father to his own
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01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:47,960
children, and I never saw anything that
would qualify as a criminal activity.
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This comes from an interview dated just
a few days ago.
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Thanks for joining us, everyone. I'm
Maury Povich.
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01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:56,400
Good night.
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Do you sometimes despair of human
nature?
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01:17:08,420 --> 01:17:09,420
Yeah.
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01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:12,700
Yes, of course.
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01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,840
Can you ever do anything that's right?
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01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:17,880
No.
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01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,200
No.
1175
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:24,280
No, no, no. No matter what you do,
there's always somebody that will say
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something about it. They have their
opinion, you know?
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01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:28,820
No matter what you do.
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01:17:30,180 --> 01:17:37,160
No matter how good your intentions are,
there's always some jerk, some
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01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:40,300
mean-spirited person to try to bring you
down.
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01:17:41,480 --> 01:17:46,120
And all you want to do is bring some
love and some joy, you know.
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That's all.
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01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:56,120
And Granada, which made living with
Michael Jackson, maintained that it was
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a fair and honest portrayal of the man.
They stand by their program and dispute
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the conclusions reached in tonight's
show.
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Coming up next on Fiverr, look at the
man behind the gangster rapper from
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Staines in Ali G before he was massive.
In just a moment.
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