英文原稿 I have finish the script of Living with Michael Jackson

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Hello, everybody. I've finish a great job recently. I’m enjoying my summer vocation and after it I’ll go to college majoring in English this autumn. So in order to be a good learner and make this summer full, I’m gonna do something meaning. The film Living with Michael Jackson shot in 2003 is one of my favorite collections about Michael. Though Martain Bashire betrayed Michael’s trust, try to make Michael lose the man that he really is, and led to the allegation that happened in 2003, this film still show us the “real man” anyway. MB is really hypocritical and Michael is somewhat na?ve, he really shouldn’t have trusted a British journalist. We need to watch the TV show “the footage you’ve never seen” broadcast later by ABC to review this whole thing. So I’ve been doing dictation of this film since July 20th. I listen to their talking and write down what they say. It is a tough job to me really. Hard as I do, I still can’t catch totally what they say. I post the script here, hoping to share this with you guys and that our kind-hearted fans can help me finish this job and correct my mistakes. There'are some words i really can't catch. so i marked "***" to show that I don't understand and i really hope you who have this video can help us fill these blanks. Help me, help those who love Michael and want to study English well. Thank you. here is my email address. wang_peiran@yahoo.com.cn 这个暑假过后我要上大学去学英语了，我把 living with mj 的谈话内容给整理成了稿件，希望提高自己的英语水平，并将这分享给所有想学好英语的歌迷。想必有很多人和我一样,MJ是自己学习英文的一大乐趣,为了听懂英文歌词,为了听懂英文对话,我们渐渐喜欢上了英语.也因此开拓了眼界,感谢MJ~ 听录音听写时候有很多辛苦,经常为了一点点不重要的信息而反复地听,为的就是文稿的准确性.打印出来再继续听得校订,确实很繁琐.但我相信这些努力对于学英语来说是值得的. 限于自己的水平，有一些内容我实在听不出来，就标上***，希望英语高手能这些空填出，帮我完成这一工作。谢谢~ [ 本帖最后由 wangpr 于 2007-8-4 16:21 编辑 ]

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Michael Jackson is laughing…… MB: Why are you laughing? MJ: Ok, come on. MB: Hoo, come on… What have I done? MJ; *****(This is so)? MB: Come on, tell me, what have I done? MJ: No, I like your accent. As your accent liking each some “I gonna ask you” like some “ I gonna ask you”. I like it. MB: And do you know English accent? MJ: A bit. Nice to, nice to meet you. MB: It’s nice to meet you MJ: Nice to meet… nice to be…if we***** Eight months ago, I put a proposal to Michael Jackson, show me the real man, but show me everything, make nothing of limits. He thought about it, and then he said,” yes, come to Neverland.” MB: Do you come out here when you are alone? MJ: Yeah… MB: How often? MJ: All the time. MB: You just come out here when you are alone, and go and ride. MJ: Yeah, you see the carrousel. I play music. I like playing classical music on the carrousel. say, I love, em… some like Childhood or Smile, you know, or People by *****, something ***(beautiful), you know. MB: What about the Ferris Wheel? MJ: I like the Ferris Wheel, it’s the traditional, en… very old, you know, amusement, *** and it’s *** , it’s not, you know, it’s not dangerous, it’s just comfortable, makes you wish and dream and…. MB: Can we go on it? MJ: Sure. MB: Let’s go on it. We began a journey together, across continents, through his past, and *** into the disturbing reality of his life today. A Staff: Shake hands before *****. MJ: Ok, all right. Staff: Michael Jackson versus Martin Bashir. Go *** land in Neverland. MJ; You gonna *** coming. Oh, put your head. Hehe… Hey, he’s cheating, he’s cheating. This is Michael Jackson as you’ve never seen him before. From the inside, his music, his money, his children, his sex life, his face, quite simply, his world. MB: Yeah! MJ: He’s good! MB: ***** for Britain *** against the USA. MB: How do you write a song? How do you write a song? MJ: How do I write a song… well… MB: You don’t have a pen in your hand and go try, what would happen? MJ: If I sit down at this piano, if I sit here and play some chords whatever I say I’m gonna write the best song ever written, nothing happens. Something in the Heaven *** say:” look, this is the time. This is gonna be late on you and, this is what I want you to have it. Now I remember when I wrote Billie Jean, I was riding in my car down in ***. All I said to myself before him were I want write a song, base ***, you know., and, er… I just let it go really and several days later, you know. MB: Where did that come from? MJ: From ***,*** MB: So, OK, you were singing the base line, sing that ***** happen. How did you get the other instrumentation on the composition? How did they work? MJ: To the thing is… artist seems to get in the way of the music, get outta the way of the music, you know, don’t write the music, let the music write itself. MB: The dance as well? MJ: Yeah, same thing. MB: How do you do it? Can you show me how you do it? MJ: Hh, boy, I’m shy. MB: Come on, just get up and show me, oh, come on, just show me, show me what you do. Teach me! MJ: Oh boy, you put me on the *** now. Now people would discover something ***. I’m really shy. I’m embarrassed. MB: Ok, you are shy, just get up and show me. MJ: Em… ok!

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MJ dances MB: What’s going through your mind when you are dancing? MJ: Not thinking, thinking is the biggest mistake that a dancer could make. You have to feel. You become the bass, you become the ***, you become the clarion and the flute the strings and the drums MB: And you are almost the physically *** of the music. MJ: Yeah, absolutely. MB: You want me to do it? ***** do it? MJ: You stand here. Mainly one foot down, and really using the other foot to push, it’s like *** pushing, just pushing, you know, and using your heel, to slide back, slide back on your heels. Heels, heels. MB: That’s very very difficult. That is not easy, that is not easy. MJ: It’s very hard to explain to how to do it. MB: Just where, when you **** MJ: Just one more time. Use your heel, don’t slide back on your toe, slide back on your heel. You wanna go in toe, but don’t go in toe. Go on the heel, not on the toe when you go back, always on the heel. Heel, heel. MB: That’s pretty unnatural, because normally, you lift your foot as you were. MJ: You are, I know. That’s part of the**** MB: Right, ok let me try. So I side back.. That not easy, ha…. MJ: That’s very good. That’s the idea. MB: You are a very kind man. Michael Jackson’s home Neverland is a 3,000 acre ranch 3 hours off north Los Angeles. As with most of his life, it has to be seen to be believed. Inspired by the children’s fairy tale Peter Pan, about the little boy who never grew up., it’s a multimillion dollar man-made *****. As well as the full size fun fair, there’s a zoo with giraffes, elephants, tigers, and a couple of orangutans. Bubbles the chimp, has been moved out to and animal *****. It’s *** a paradise for a ten-year-old child, but MJ is now forty-four. MB: Inspiration for Neverland, Peter Pan, why is Peter Pan a figure of such interesting inspiration to you? MJ: Because Peter Pan to me, represents something that’s very special in my heart, represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying, everything, I think that children, and wonderment, and magic, what it’s all about. To me, I just *** never ever growing*** I think that is very special. MB: Do you identify with him? MJ: Totally. MB: You don’t want to grow up. MJ: No, I’m Peter Pan. MB: ****** Michael Jackson. MJ: I’m Peter Pan in my heart. The climate is a problem for Jackson. He says the color changing skin condition vitiligo has made him allergic to the sun. so***** his umbrella. He took me the his secret place. MJ: I call it my Giving Tree, because it inspires me. I love climbing trees in general, but this tree I love the most because I climb upon and I look down on its branches, and it gives me… I just love it. So many ideas I’ve written so many of my songs in this tree. I wrote the Heal the World in the tree, Will you be There, Black or White, em…Childhood. MB: You are actually saying you climb that tree. How far do you climb up it? MJ: All the way to that, see, all the way to that, kind of ***** like a bed. MB: Do you want climb it now? MJ: Yeah! MB: Give me and hold on your umbrella. You go and climb it. And when you climb it, let’s see how inspiring it is. MJ: Aren’t you coming? MB: No way. MJ: This is a big secret. I’ve never show anybody my Given Tree. MB; OK, I’ll try. I’m slightly worried about my shoe’s slipping. MJ: Come on! MB: Is it safe? MJ: Of course! MB: I’m frightened. I’ll ****** stop here. MJ: You don’t climb trees? MB: No, I do not. MJ: You ****(are missing out)? MB: I’ll ***(leave it to it)? MJ: I love climbing trees. I think it’s my favorite thing. Having waterballoon fights, and climbing trees, I think both to my favorite. MB: Don’t you prefer making love or going to a concert or…you prefer…you really mean that you prefer climbing trees and having a balloon fights. MJ: Oh, waterballoon fight. MB: And you prefer that to anything else? MJ: Well, as my pastime fun, you know, not capable comparing to performing. Other people play football, basketball, I like climbing tree. So how had this singing and dancing genius arrived in the *** place that is his life today. I started to look for answers back at the beginning. MB: Do you remember when you first discovered that you had a special music talent? MJ: My mother caught me making my bed one day, and I was singing. She said to my father that I could sing and he didn’t want to hear of it. He said that Jermaine is the lead singer, not Michael. My mother said, “Joe, you really should hear him sing, he can sing.” He goes, “no , Jermaine is the lead singer of the group, not him.” She forced him to listen to me, and once he listened to me, and that moment on, I was the lead singer in the group.

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Music on, little Michael and his brothers are performing on the screen. MJ: I ain’t *** childhood. I remember people always say to me, he is a 42-year-old ***. At first I didn’t understand, but what they mean was the way, you know, moved on stage, the way I sang, the just say the inflexions or whatever. MB: Did somebody teach you to do that? MJ: No you can’t teach that, you can’t teach you. It just had to come from inside. It’s a gift, you know. I remember precisely going to Motown studios to record. Right across the street from the studio was a park and I could hear the roar of the, you know, little league team and they were playing soccer and football and volleyball and the were playing baseball. I remember a lot of the times looking back, I really *** in my face crying. I wanted to play sometimes and I couldn’t. MB: why couldn’t? MJ: I had to go to studio. MB: When you would be practicing, you were very heavily disciplined by your father. What was that like? MJ: (with a forced smile) Er… I didn’t have it that hard, cause he use me as the example. It was like, “do like Michael.” You know. He practiced that with a belt in his hand. If you miss step, expected to be “whoosh” (whip). MB: Just let me go back, you just said that you would practice the dance steps and your father would be holding a belt in his hand. Is that what you just said? MJ: Yes, and he would tear you up if you missed, and so, we, not only when we practicing we were nervous rehearsing. Because he sat in the chair, and he had his belt in his hand, and if you didn’t do the right way, he would tear you up. Really get you. I got it a lot of time, but my brother Marlin got the most, because he had a hard time at first, and he tried so hard, it was always, “do like Michael, do like Michael,” you know. The other were very nervous, and I was nervous, too. You know. Because he was tough. MB: How often would he beat you? MJ: Too much. MB: Would he only use a belt? MJ: Why do you do this to me? No, more than a belt. MB: What else would he use to hit you with? MJ: Ironing ***. Whatever’s around. Don’t *******************?? MB: But you were only a child, you were a baby, and you were producing successful records. MJ: I know. He would lose his temper, I just remember hearing my mother scream, “Joe, you gonna kill him, you gonna kill him. Stop it, you gonna kill him.” I was so fast. He couldn’t catch me *** the time. But when he would catch me. Oh my God. It was bad. I look up at the mirror and couldn’t help wondering what an effect this violence had on young Michael. MJ: We were terrified, terrified. I can’t tell you. I don’t think he realized to this day how scared, scared, I mean scared, so scared that we ***** to take. MB: You would vomit. When would you vomit? What produce that sort of reaction in you? MJ: His presence. Just seeing him. Sometime I’d faint. My body guard would have to hold me up. MB: When he was beating you, did you hate him? MJ: Yeah, strong hate. That’s why to this day, I don’t lay a finger on my children. I don’t want them ever feel the way about me, ever! He did not allow us to call him daddy. i want to call him daddy so bad. He said I’m not daddy, I’m Joseph, do you? I’ve totally forgiven him for all of it, you know. You have to. But I don’t allow my children to call me Michael. I say I’m daddy. it’s just the opposite. So when people say they are abused, abused, that’s not true. That’s not true at all. Thirty years on, the memory seemed as raw as ever. But there is little time now for reflection. It was late summer, and Michael Jackson was leaving Neverland. He called me on my mobile to say he was off to spend a few weeks in Las Vegas and I could join him. In Las Vegas, he would review his bizarre experiences of love and sex, his obsession with his face, and most extraordinary of all, I get to meet his children. Summer, Michael Jackson set up temporary home in the gambling capital of the world, Las Vegas. I went to see him in the Four Seasons Hotel, where he’d taken out no fewer than seven suites. I wanted to know why he would leave Neverland to spend months on his own in a hotel room, especially as it would become quickly apparent that Jackson was deeply bored and isolated. In fact, he was delighted to have some company other than the bizarre collection of manikin and ***that I found in his room. MB: This is your suites. What do you like about Las Vegas? MJ: Er…I like the entertainment. MB: The entertainment. MJ: It’s a fun place to visit. MB: What’s this? MJ: Oh, when I’m bored, I ride it in the hallways of the hotel on this. I ******** the hallways late at night sometime. MB: You are joking. MJ: No, serious. Michael is playing a stake board game. MJ: This is a game that I like. MB: It’s gonna a skate board, isn’t it? MJ: Yeah. MB: Oh, that was *** unfortunate to crash into a car. There they are MJ: Yeah, I gonna hit ***. You make points. Here comes a car. Hoo, wow. When I was in my room when I’m board late at night and between writing music, I play with this thing. Wow, it’s got hit there. MB: I wouldn’t like to see you drive a car. MB: Is that the Incredible *** ? MJ: No, the Green Giant. MB: You *** a Green Giant. MJ: See all commercial, American commercial that make kid eat green peas. Ho-ho-ho, Green Giant.

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I soon learned that Las Vegas was full of uneasy memories for Jackson. MJ: I had to share bedrooms with my brothers on the tours. There were some actions going on on my room every night. I could hear it. *** my job was to play sleep. I was told by one of my brothers, “no matter what, don’t get up, don’t open your eyes.” I promise I won’t. so I will hear these girls coming in. I will hear them saying, “is that little Michael?” My brother say, “yeah.” They’ll go, “ he’s so cute.” And I’m, I hear everything. ***** MB: What did you hear? MJ: With the girls. MB: You heard them having sex. MJ: Yeah. MB: In the same bedroom as you? MJ: Er…let me see. Sometime is sometime not. MB: So in some occasions, you are lying down pretending to be asleep and your brothers were having sex with somebody in the same bedroom. MJ: En. MB: Did you have many girlfriend through your adolescence? MJ: Er…not a lot. I did, my first girlfriend who I really loved a lot was Tatum O’Neal. MB: And was it a typically romantic adolescent love affair? MJ: Yeah, was. But I don’t think I was ready for some of the things she was talking about. I was pretty naïve. I’m not joking. I hope she forgives me for telling the story. Ok, Tatum please forgives me. I remember her telling me to come over to her house, to her house. They are *** house, too. She’s gonna *** when I come. MB: What did she say? MJ: All the sexual staff, so I’m scared to death. MB: So she rings you and says, “Michael, come to my house, I’m gonna make love to you.” And you are really scared. MJ: I’m scared, scared, cause I’d never done anything like that. I came over there, try to be *** and brave. I remember she cut off all the lights in the bedroom. Open the curtains, you can see the whole sky line of city over the ***. It was beautiful. She told me to go over and lie on the bed and I did. I laid on the bed. She slowly walked over. She touched the button in my shirt to open it. I took my hand like this. I wouldn’t let them down. She… she’s walked away. She knew I was too shy for it. That’s what happened. MB: Did you not feel the *****? You just felt frightened. MJ: I was frightened. I was afraid. I don’t think I was ready for that. And we are going shopping to this spectacular place. MB: Do you like shopping? MJ: Love it. MB: What do you love about shopping? MJ: Not some bargain to buy and I’m not cheap. I love seeing how people make things. I love craftsmanship, where people can do with their hands and their imagination. MB: Have you always been good with your money? MJ: With my money? Yes. I remember getting 200,000 dollar checks in the *** when I was like 12, 13 years old. I used to get this monthly. My father would say, “what do you want to do with this?” I say, “Well, of course we should put it away.” MB: You were 12 years old. MJ: Yeah, he would give me a certain amount to buy things that I wanted to buy. What I would buy was some bubble gums, candies and stuff like that. MB: How much do you think you worth? MJ: It’s way up there, but, I don’t… MB: Go on! No, go on. Just how much? MJ: Come on, Martain, ***** MB: A billion dollars? MJ: Yeah, it’s over there. MB: It’s over a billion dollars. MJ: Yes. MB: Ok, let’s go. We headed straight to Jackson’s favorite shopping mall. He told me he wanted to spend some serious money, and he wasn’t joking. MJ: This is the ***. And when Michael Jackson goes out, every step of the way, there’s a fan waiting to greet him. A mid-aged man: I love your song Music and Me. MJ: Thank you. Man: I bought your CDs, *** play on the guitar, and play it all the time. MJ: Yeah? Man: Yeah, my name is Steve from Huston. MJ: How long age? I love Ben. Thank you, God bless you. Man: ******. That’s my favorite songs. MJ: I was 12 when I first sang it. Man: Give me a hug. MJ: Ok. Where are you from? Man: Huston, Texas. And her sister is your biggest fan. If she was here, she’ be crying like a baby. Hehe, bye-bye. MJ: Bye. Ok, bye.

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MB: You must get that all the time, don’t you? People coming up to you. Is that lovely, say, somebody say they loved your music they learned to play it on the guitar. MJ: Yeah, sweet… These ceilings are amazing. MB: It’s extraordinary, isn’t it? MJ: Yeah, it’s incredible. MB: Is it a bit tacky? MJ: A bit tacky? Are you silly? MB: Do you like to buy jewelry? MJ: No, but my mother and Elizabeth Taylor, yes, because Elizabeth loves jewelry, my mother loves jewelry, and… MB: ***cause it is ***** that Elizabeth was… MJ: If there is a girl I like at the moment I’ll buy her jewelry. MB: Oh, yeah? Who is that? MJ: If there is one I like at the moment. MJ: Is there? MJ: At the moment no. ******. I haven’t found one yet. MB: Well, who knows, this time, you are still a young boy. MB: Let *** these expensive *** around. MJ: Ah, this is the shop I like. I bought so much staff here. **** you see the staff I bought. I’m gonna show you. This is Michael Jackson’s favorite shop in Las Vegas, with the luckiest manager in the world. MJ: I bought that. MB: You bought that, a globe, right? MJ: **** go upstairs. I’ll take you upstairs. A fan: Hi, Michael. MJ: Hi. Applause MJ: I bought this, bought this, bought this one, this one, this one. I bought this table, this chess set. Isn’t beautiful, ****? MB: Your chess set in your library is… MJ: No, this is bigger, this is bigger. MB: Wow, that is sold ****. MJ: I bought this one right? MB: Is this yours? MJ: That’s ***** for me. MJ: Ok, how much is that want? MJ: Did *** we get these ones, these ones? MB: 87,000(???). MJ: You put that on the list? You *** pen so you can mark and not forget. Manager: I’m getting the list now. MJ: Did we get those? I like those. Why don’t we order those? Yeah, I like those. MB: You’ve got enough space *** for this, Michael. You’ve got space. In the house in Neverland or… MJ: No, this will be for another house. MB: For another one? Ok MJ: We bought this, right? And this… MB: You like ***, don’t you? MJ: Yeah… and these we bought? And these, this table, this, this, right? Look at these big***, *** beautiful, these are. These, right? MB: Oh my goodness. Ok, let’s have a look at these ones. That’s $275,000 each. So that’s half a million dollars for those two. MJ: Well, he’s gonna give us a big deal. MB: ***** he needs to give you good deal. MJ: *** loves bargain. *** likes bargains, too. Let me show you. MB: How much has Mr. Jackson spent? *** adventurous, just a around figure. MJ: He used to put a *** the bargain at the end of this. MB: What I mean, based on the price of things, couple a million? Manager: I’m not **** to say. MJ: These things are mine, right? MB: It’s like you surround yourself with stuff just like emperor’s house, isn’t it? It’s like the Louis XIV. MJ: It’s my taste. MB: You could probably retire ***** just after having one client. We gonna go down out? MJ: Yeah, we gonna go down. MB: What about pictures, Michael? You love your furniture. You want these as well. MJ: You, u~, we got these right? MB: Wow, what about pictures, Michael? You love your furnishing, but what about pictures? MJ: Painting? I like this one because this is the Bathing Apollo, **** Apollo The girls are bathing. Excuse me, I want that among there, and this one. I bought this statue, the whole marble is bigger than life size. That’s Bathing of Apollo, right? Manager: Michael is ****** MB: Obviously. MB: I suppose what about 80% of the shop has been bought by you. Let’s go to the next shop.

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There’s a news spread, crowds gathered to catch a glimpse of Michael Jackson. It’s been the same since he was a boy. And what happened then sparked a lifelong obsession with his face? MJ: I would never look at myself in the mirror, ever. I would turn off all the lights. ****** pimples were really badly. It was just difficult to face the public. When a time we were at an airport, I remember *** somewhere like Virginia or something. Some ladies recognize my brothers, and all of us. She goes, “oh my god, is that the Jackson Five? Where’s little Michael? Where’s little Michael?” She’s looking around looking down, “where’s little Michael?” Another person goes, “there he is.” And she goes, “eh, what happened.” Just like that. God, I just could have died right there. This is exactly what that lady said to me. MB: Did your father and your brothers tease you about appearance as an adolescent? MJ: My father did, and some cousins did. MB: What did your father say? MJ: Oh, God. It’s pretty embarrassing. ****** MB: It’s cruel, isn’t it? MJ: Yeah, it used to hurt me. I don’t think he realized how much he was hurting me. MB: What sort of thing did he say? MJ: He would tease me about **** . say, “you didn’t get it from my side of the family, must be on Kitty”------ you know, Kitty, we’d always say, meaning my mother.” You didn’t get that from me.” I said, **** “thanks for making me feel better.” Cause I don’t think how badly *** laugh. I don’t think people don’t *** to thing they sent sometimes, and the effect it could have on a person, you know. One cousin would always, you know, do this when he see me, like *** my pimples. Cry~ you know. MB: Is it *** your father used to say you had a fat nose? MJ: Yeah. MB: What did he say? What did he actually say? MJ: God, your nose is big. You didn’t get it from me. MJ: What does that do to someone who is going through adolescence? MJ: You wanna die, you wanna die. *** tough you gonna go on stage in the spotlight in front of hundreds of thousand people. You just, god, it’s just hard. I would have been happy if I were in a mask. In the shop that sells various masks. MJ: Let’s see how it looks on you. Wow. MB: Is it ** ? thank you. MJ: That’s fun. MB: That’s been better I think. So had this adolescent experience in the spotlight led Michael Jackson to remake his face, to create his own mask? I had to ask him. MB: What do you say when people who say, well, when Michael Jackson was a boy, he was a black kid. Now as an adult, he looks like a white man? MJ: Well, you gonna ask god that. That has nothing to do with me. Ok? That’s ignorance. MB: What do yo mean it’s gotten nothing to do with you? MJ: I don’t control, you know, *** , I don’t control the effect that I have of vitiligo, I don’t control… How many white people, when they were little kids, look white. Now they look *** in the sun all day to look black. And the suntan lotion business is a multibillion dollar business. Nobody says nothing about that. They do, you know. They try to be other than what they are. But that’s OK I guess, right? MB: You try to be other than what you are? MJ: No. MB: So when they say things like you’ve had implant in your cheeks; you’ve had a dimple made in your chin; you had your lips enlarged; you’ve had you eyelid reconstructed….. MJ: It’s stupid!!! None of it is true! It’s BS. They made it up. They lie. They don’t wanna give me credit for anything. One paper said I had each **** growing little beard. He has each little hair transplanted into his face with laser, lasered in. How ignorant is that! I can’t even grow a beard now? Ignorant fool wrote such a thing. So don’t believe that stupidity, don’t waste your money on it. Cause when you are buying it, you are not buying something based what’s true. It’s not the truth, it’s garbage!!

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I wasn’t convinced by Jackson’s explanation and felt that he wasn’t being entirely honest. I knew I’d have to return to the subject of his face before we were through. But suddenly Jackson suggested a few mean opportunity that I couldn’t turn down. The following day, I’ll be going out on the town with the Jackson children. MB: Left. Ok thank you. I was about to meet Michael Jackson’s children, Prince the first, and Paris. They are rarely seen in public. MB: Are you ***(all set)?? That’s a really a great mask. Prince: It’s a butterfly. MB: It’s a butterfly. Let me see, come here. What’s is made of? Prince: I don’t know. It’s inside is ***, it’s black. MB: Wow… oh sorry. Prince: Can I run? MJ: You should run? Sure! MB: Should we run? No, he’s wearing **** shoes. *** go anywhere. MJ: Paris you wanna run? Paris: No, I want to hold your hands. MJ: OK~ Jackson told me he’d never allow his children out without masks to conceal their identities. The children was the result of Jackson’s brief marriage to his dermatology nurse Debbie Rowel. Paris is now four, Prince is almost six. MB:***** the Star War shoes. Prince: Not part II MB: Not part II. Prince: Aha, daddy got these for me. MB: All right? OK. Paris: ***** cheese, too. MB: What’s he’s been telling about not part II. Why don’t you like Star Wars part II? Prince: Because it’s boring and slow. MB: Right? What makes you think you’re qualified to make such a strong judgment? MJ: What makes you think you are right about that? You sure you’re right? ***** MB: He has a good boy(???). Michael is singing SMILE MB: I think there’re some people here might just want to have a word with you. Fans: Hello, good morning. MJ: Hi, you don’t know how happy those pictures make me. Those banners you guys made? Fans: You know, we’re *** running out of baby’s pictures. *** we’re from Spain. So we… MJ: You can never run out of baby’s pictures. MB: You are from Spain? You’re big fans of Michael. Fans: Yeah, sunny Spain. Sunny Spain has been a ******. MJ: I know, the Spanish fans are so sweet. They’re beautiful people, uh! Stunning to look at. MB: Take care. Fans: Bye-bye. Prince: Bye~ MB: Did you cry when Prince was born? MJ: Yes. MB: Can you just tell me what happened? Can you tell me how… MJ: Of course. He came out with his really big head. As soon as I saw his head, I thought of me grandfather and my brother Randy, cause his head shape just like theirs. I said, “oh my God.” Then, the ***** my let me pull, pull him out and I cut umbilical cord, ****** They cleaned them all and everything. ****** take him home?” They said, “no, can’t take him home.” I go, “why?” “think there are some serious problem” I go, “what?” “We got to take him to intensive care. He is not breathing correctly.” I go, “ oh no~ please, God, please don’t let me have a sick child, please” So I waited, an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours. I was so scared. After about five hours, this nurse comes in. She goes, “ ok, you can go home now.” I was so happy!! MB: Paris was born soon after, your daughter. How was that? Were you there for her birth? MJ: Of course. It was just magic. She came out the wrong way. Her face was facing wrong way. She’s being kind of choked by the umbilical cord. So I was a kind of worried. It took her longer. I was so anxious to get her home that I *** clean the cord. ***** and just went home with all the placenta all over her. MB: You’re kidding. MJ: Yeah, I’m not kidding. Get her in towel and ran. They said it was fine. They said everything’s ok with that. I clean… I got home, wash it all off. MB: She was just born. MJ: I know. MB: Why did you want to do that? MJ: Because I felt, that it was OK. They told me it was OK. Debbie said it was OK. I got the permission of the doctor. I think I was frightened that were to give me some bad news. I was so scared. But there was no bad news to be gotten. So ****** we leaving. And I was afraid, I said I just don’t want to hear anything bad. I just want to go go go. MB: ***** Debbie have to stay in the hospital cause she just gave a birth? MJ: Yes, of course. MB: Was she OK about losing the baby as *** in the few minutes? MJ: No, she told me to. MB: She told you to take the baby. MJ: Yeah, she said go right ahead. I know it’s what you want. She said I’m totally fine with this.” I said, “are you fine with this?” She said, “yes, of course.” MB: How long was it before she was in united with a baby? How long? MJ: Oh, I don’t know technically. After getting out********** I don’t know how exactly. I can’t ***

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MJ: *** MB: No, I haven’t. MJ: Look at this. MB: This is extraordinary. Is this the store you were talking about? MJ: I think it’s coming up. It will be there very soon. MB: And this is actually the tomb you are talking about. The tomb you bought. MJ: Is this gorgeous? MB: Let’s look, let’s go in and have a look. This is it. MJ: That’s it, isn’t it gorgeous? Look at the face. Come on, that’s beautiful. MB: This is the actually coffin. ****, through *** coffin of *****. MJ: Yeah, *** gold, gold. MB: So you’ve bought it. Why have you bought it? MJ: Cause I love it. Look at the art, it’s phenomenal. MB: What about…. Would you like to be buried something like this? MJ: No, I don’t ever want to be buried. MB: Really? How… what do you like to happen to you? MJ: I would like to live forever. MB: Do you try to give your children a normal life bringing? MJ: Yes, of course. MB: What about things like schooling and education? Do they go to school? MJ: Yes, they have school. MB: Do they go to a normal school? MJ: Never! MB: Why not? MJ: It wouldn’t work. MB: Why? MJ: Cause we’ll get chased by paparazzi wherever we go. I don’t wanna press all over them at school, and the bushes and the trees and in the…I saw how it would happen to me. They’re doing the same and worse to them. I don’t feel like the jealousy, teachers saying, “just because you’re Michael Jackson’s children, don’t think we gonna treat you any different from anyone else around here. Well they don’t want to be treated different, any, you know. It’s just that… I don’t want them have to go through all that. MB: So the truth is that they can’t really have a very normal life, can they? MJ: No, no. In public MB: You hold my hand. you hold daddy’s hand and my hand. Thank you. MJ: Tell them that I wanna let go, let go. She’s *****. It’s so *** pull. ********************. Say I gonna sign autograph sometime. MB: Do you worried about the effect of your life on them? The fact that you’re the stars, that you’re a ****** have to be part of that. They don’t have a choice. MJ: That’s the way is. And it’s worked successfully in the past, many times. It’s all that how you shape and *** and mode their world. Many people have been successful about it. Jackson obviously liked being a father and he had surprise for me. Prince and Paris had recently been joined by a new baby brother. And he was back at the hotel with his nanny. MB: So ****** going to ****** MJ: No, no we can’t *** MJ: You recently had your third child. Were you present for his birth? MJ: Yes. MB: What’s he like. What’s his name? MJ: Prince Michael the second, we call him Blanket. MB: You call him Blanket. MJ: Yeah. MB: Why do you call him Blanket? MJ: Cause it’s and expression I use with my family and my employees. I say you should blanket me, you should blanket her with something meaning. A blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring. MB: Who is Blanket’s mother? MJ: Blanket’s mother? I can’t say. Because she’ll be bombarded with the…you know. We have an agreement that we can’t **** the agreement, talk about who she is and everything. That’s how we work that out. MB: Was she someone that you had a relationship with? MJ: Yes. MB: But you’ve kept the secret. MJ: Yes. MB: and that’s because she doesn’t want anybody to know. MJ: Yes. I don’t want anybody to know. I don’t think she just want to be like in paper, in tabloids. She doesn’t want it. I don’t blame her. Cause she knows how *** their comments can be. MB: Does she… do any of the mothers live with you now? MJ: Live with me now? No! MB: Is that difficult for you and the children? MJ: No, no, why would it be difficult? MB: Other children not looking for their mother? MJ: No, they are fine. How many babies live with their mothers. They don’t have a father around. Nobody say nothing. They have a good time. MB: So with you is the other way around. They live with their dad. MJ: Yeah! The great time. They have enough women in their lives. They are everywhere, everywhere in my house. I mean they with them all day long. MB: What do you say to somebody who said that’s been strange that none of your children live with their mother? MJ: People can always have judgment about anything you do. So, it doesn’t bother me. Everything can be strange to someone. This interview was strange to some people out there. So, who cares, right?

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But thousands of miles away, Jackson’s behavior as a father was about to come under serious scrutiny. A few weeks later, I went to meet him in Berlin. Just as I was arriving, this happened. Michael Jackson had just *** his new baby out of the window of a Berlin Hotel. His fans outside were going crazy. When I got up to his room, I was worried. There was a maniac quality about him that I’ve never seen before. He was loving the attention of the screaming fans outside the hotel. MB: What does it say? “I love you in my heart------Michael Jackson.” That’s the hotel pillow?” MJ: Yeah. MB: What were they singing earlier? MJ: f**k the press, Michael you are the best! MB: ***** again? MJ: F-U-C-K the press, Michael you are the best! *** gonna say the word. He’d arrived in Berlin after a week of experiences in a Los Angeles court room. Media coverage of the court case said his face was ***. MB: **** MJ: *** silly *** I made the worst face. MB: What do you think of Berlin? MJ: I love Berlin. As fans waited for a another glimpse of their idol of the hotel, his motor *** sped off. I wanted to know if the article about his face had hurt him. MB: What did you think of the press coverage of the court case? MJ: I don’t see any of that, I don’t talk about. I don’t watch TV, I don’t look tabloids. I hate tabloids. I think we should have a tabloid burning just big mountains out of them, just burn it all. People should be more aware that it’s completely not the truth. It’s sensation ***. It’s ignorance, really is, ignorance. Look at the poor lady Diana, *** was being hunted by those people. MB: What do you think of the way they say to make such a fuss about your appearance and court. That seemed to be the big story. MJ: Don’t *** that. A man: Shoot this guy, man, shoot this guy. MJ: Look, lo..lo.. HAHA~(roar with laughter) the police pull him out. MB: What is he doing? He’s doing the Jackson dance. MB: He *** do mine. Every time they start, police pull him out, every time. He can never get *****. Poor guy, oh, he does the leg kick , the spin, grab his crotch, after that they take him off. We headed to a restaurant, the Jackson’s army of *** had got there first. They included his NO.1 fan, who finally got to perform his dance. A staff: How long have you been doing that for? NO.1 fan: Since I was little. By the time we left, the atmosphere was becoming ***. MJ: I want some of post, come on, we want post. Give that one please. Come on, the babies. I want more. A fan: Michael can I came to your hotel room, maybe? I came all the way from Israel. Another fan: Michael can I give a hug? Can I ****, let me in please. MJ: Let her, let her… The fan: I want to give you a hug. Can I ***** MJ: Of course, Give you more than a hug. I love you. I love you, too. I love you more. The fan: You mean the world to me. As Jackson headed back to the hotel, a storm was **** about Blanket Incident. The next morning, he was keen to show me how he cared for his children. MJ: I love you. MB: Here he is. MJ: **********. Here is the bottle. MB: OK, just give him. Blanket starts crying. MJ: Oh, yes, abuuun…..Blanket, I love you, Blanket, yes, yes. I l love you. I love my children very much. I don’t want them cry. MB: Does he like his feed? MJ: Yes. MB: Have you been hearing about what people have been saying? MJ: That’s totally ignorant. I would never do that to my children or any child. Try to kill them? Come on, stupid. What I do was to put a scarf over the baby’s face and be trying to *** him off the balcony. We were waving to thousands of fans down below. They were chatting that they want to see my child. So I was kind enough to let them see. I was doing something ***** innocence. MB: He’s hungry, isn’t it? MJ: He loves the milk, this kind, it is good. Thank you.

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Jackson’s behavior was beginning to alarm me. Later that day, he took Prince and Paris to Berlin zoo. It was supposed to be a family outing, but the presses were outing forth. Somebody had ********** . Michael was here to see the gorillas, but he seemed completely *** to the fact that the trip had *** into *** MB: I got your… I got Prince. Concerned for the safety of the children, I was *** with them in the middle of paparazzi scrum. I was no kind of trip for two young children and everybody could see it. But Jackson himself. Fans: f**k the press!!!! Michael you’re the best!!!... It was hard to believe Jackson was the same man I’d met in Neverland. The first opportunity to talk about his bizarre behavior was later that evening at a charity auction. MB: What about the trip to the zoo today? MJ: I love going to the zoo, even though it was difficult. It’s like ***, but **** long as I get to see the gorillas I was satisfied. I love the gorillas. MB: Didn’t Prince get poked in the eyes? MJ: Did Prince get poked in the eye? No. MB: He’s OK? MJ: He’s OK, yeah. MB: The children *** enormous pressure with people all around. MJ: Yeah, but, I know, it’s sad. But they were *** the first day on birth, ***** cover them. *** helicopters flying around the hospital, when the satellites two blocks down the street. MB: Wouldn’t it be easier for your body guards and for your nannies just to take the children to the zoo on their own, rather than have to go through what they went through today? MJ: No, because, I can’t take that chance. Rather be my fault if something happens. MB: Really? So you wouldn’t allow them to go with the body guard unless you….. MJ: ***** security? There’s a lot… I’m not say the words. It’ll be hard *** walking a line ***** MB: You’ve had a tough week this week, haven’t you? Because the media have been accusing you of being irresponsible with your children. MJ: The media is wrong, I love my children. I’m **** my children tight in strong. I’ve ****. Why would I throw the baby off the balcony. That’s the dullest story I’ve ever heard. I love my children and they know I love them. MB: What do you say? MJ: Too many before they saw the baby, Prince did the same thing. I’ve had my arms ********I’ve done it, you know. I’ve got them strong in the arm. MB: Were you just overexcited? MJ: No, they were chatting they want to see the baby, so I want to show them the baby. I’m not gonna let him fall. MB: But you didn’t really show them the baby, cause the baby was covered. MJ: ****** he got a *** spirit. That’s good enough. And he was responding *** like singing, “yeah~” The consumer performances since childhood, Jackson was entirely *** by the day, so the show went on. He donated one of his jackets, it was auctioned for 60,000 pounds. And still the fans try desperately hard to get near him. A fan: I love you, Michael, can I have a hug please? MJ: I love you. Sure, of course. Fan: Germany loves Michael. Michael: I love Germany. It was the final night in Berlin and Jackson was the main draw of Germany Bambi Awards. He was to be honored for a Lifetime of Music Achievement. Yet again, Jackson seemed extremely agitated. And, for the first time. He didn’t want our cameras foused on him. He only wanted us to capture the *** of his fans. (Profuse “Michael… I love you~….) While his security carried out last minute checks backstage, the buildup of his award again. A **** serious introductions had been organized but Jackson disastrous trip to Berlin still held one last humiliation. With the ceremony entirely in German, Jackson took to the stage too early. Staff: Hey… Michael, wait…. The confusion was *** for all of us. The first name check was not for him, but for the presenter of the award-----****** (Speaks in German?) The award was supposed to seal his position as the King of Pop, but by the end of this trip, he’d done nothing of the kind. And there was something else that was bothering me. Back in Neverland, I’d met one of his good friends, a 12-year-old boy.

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In the time I’d known Michael Jackson, we touched on most of aspects of his life, say for one, his relationship with children, for me, perhaps the most disturbing aspect of his life story. As he often does, he did invited a group of disadvantage children to Neverland, they couldn’t believe their luck. MJ: See, *** that big machine, ****** inside. That’s where we play all my games. That’s the tennis court. Oh, hold on, tell them hold on. Don’t fall out. Oh my God, if you dance, too, I’ll dance with you guys. Child: I dance, too. MJ: *****Cause I’m kind of shy. You gonna dance with me. Child: You gonna teaches us how to do the moonwalk. MJ: Oh, you know how to do the moonwalk?! I learned it from you guys. Oh, don’t stand up, here, hold on. I’m pretty bad. OK, don’t stand up, it’s gonna a jerk, one low jerk. OK, now you can go. But don’t run, whatever you go, don’t run. He was evidently enjoying the company of the children, and they liked being their, too. MJ: I bought a snow ***. I buy them from companies around the world.. I’m getting roller coaster next *** over there. I’m gonna do that. I’m gonna build a water park on the other side of this mountain. A boy: You got a water park… MJ: No, no, we’re going to. Not built it. So you can come ********** A kid: Michael, can I go on anywhere, right? MJ: Yeah, yeah, sure~ What the children wanted, they got, and everything was free. For a day, Jackson got to be one of them. MJ: Can I have one too? A staff: She call it first. MJ: Oh, me-me-me-me-me! Hehe, sorry. The problem was, I , like everyone, knew that 10 years ago, children would be invited to sleep over at Neverland. One of them, a 13-year-old boy, accused Jackson of sexual abuse, a claim that cost him millions of dollar. I’d assumed that now he’d been more cautious. But to my utter astonishment, I’d discovered that children were still sleeping over, sometimes in his house, sometimes in his bedroom. Then I met 12-year-old Gavin, and his brother and sister. Gavin met Jackson two years ago after he’d been told he was dying with cancer. MB: What is it, Gavin, about Michael that makes him connect so well with children? What is it? Gavin: Cause he’s really a child at heart. He actually likes child. He knows how ******, he knows what ********. I think that you don’t necessarily have to be a child just because of sizes, 18 year or a adult, doesn’t really matter. You are an adult when you want to be one. MJ: Are they great? Not sick at all, no more cancer. All gone, all gone. ****** they told me he was gonna die. They great? Gavin’s sister: They told my parent to plan for his funeral cause there is no chance. MJ: They told your parents to plan for a funeral. Gavin’s sister: They told him he was gonna grow, he was gonna *** would have kids, he has…. Gavin: I went from 4 to 10, *** 4. MJ: See, medicine don’t ***** do they? According to Gavin, it was Michael’s friendship and support that helped him beat the cancer. They remained close friends ever since. MB: When you stay here, do you stay in the house? Does Michael let you enjoy the whole ***? Gavin: There was one night ****** stay in the bedroom. He let me stay in the bedroom. I was like, “Michael, you could sleep on the bed.” He was like, “no no no, you could sleep on the bed.” *** I went, “no no no, you sleep on the bed.” Then he finally said, “ok, if you love me, you sleep on the bed.” I was like“oh, man.” So finally I slept on the bed. *** slept well that night. MJ: I slept on the floor, was in sleeping bag? Gavin: No, he packed whole blankets ****** over the floor. MB: But Michael, you know, you’re a 44-year-old man now. what do you get out of this? what do you get out of this? Why do you do it? Gavin: He is 4. MJ: Yeah, I’m 4. I love, I feel, I think what they get from me, I get from them. I told… I’ve said many times, my greatest inspiration come from kids, every song I write, every dance I do, all the portray I write. It’s all inspired from that lever of innocence, that consciousness of purity. Children have that. I see God in the faces of children. I just love being around that all the time. MJ: Are you guys stand on the ******************************** MB: When people hear that children from other families have ****** stayed in your house, they stayed in your bedroom. MJ: Well, very few. MB: You know, some have, and they say, “is that really appropriate for a man, a grown man, to be doing that. How do you respond that? MJ: I feel sorry for them because that’s judging some one who wants to really help people. why can’t just share your bed. That the most loving to do is to share your bed with someone. MB: You really think that? MJ: Yeah, of course. Gavin: It’s taking opposition that you use every ***** you sleep ****** those another. MJ: If you say, “if I can have your bed if you want?” sleep in it. I’ll sleep on the floor. ***** always give the best to the company, like *** him. *** sleep on the floor.” I say, “no, you sleep in the bed, I sleep in the floor.” MB: Haven’t you got a spare room or spare house here where he could have stayed? MJ: Yes, we have guest’s room. But whenever kids come here, they always want to stay with me. They never want to stay in the guest… and I have never invited them in my room. They always just want to stay with…. They say, “can I stay with you tonight?” I go, “*** OK with your parents, yes you can.” MB: Were your parents happy that you were here with Michael? Gavin: Yeah, my momma was very very… happy. I know thy are happy cause I was happy. MB: Did they come with you ? Gavin: In most of the times ****** Michael. MB: But they were happy that you were here. Michael. Gavin: Yeah.

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I felt very uneasy after this conversation. I knew I had to confront Jackson about what I thought was an obsession with children. It just couldn’t be avoided. Early in the New Year, Jackson agreed to what would be our final meeting. This time, in Miami, Florida. There were announced questions, lots of them, areas of his life about which I felt he’d been less than honest. His face, his denies about plastic surgery, his relationship with Blanket’s mother, and of course, I also wanted to return to the Neverland sleepovers. Confronting him wouldn’t be easy. But now, it had to happen. As we prepare for the interview. The atmosphere was unusually tense. This time, Jackson had flown in his own lighting expert. Maybe there was a reason for that, cause plastic surgery was to be the focus of some difficult questions. MB: When we were talking, sometime ago, you talked about how when you were through adolescence, you had a terrible time. In fact, I had looked the pictures of you during that period. You did have lots of spots. One of the things that you clearly used to overcome this is changing you appearance. You’ve kind of… you know, you’ve physically changed, haven’t you? They photographs of you, if I look at the **** MJ: No, it’s called adolescence. It’s called growing and changing. MB: Yeah, but even the shape of your face has changed. MJ: No, it has not. I’ve had no plastic surgery in my face, just my nose. It helped me breath better, so I can hit higher notes. MB: But, are you, Michael, are you honestly saying that you’ve only ever had one operation. MJ: Two. MB: You’ve had two. MJ: As I can remember, yeah, just two. MB: But if I look at some the photographs of you in your adolescence… MJ: Yeah, I change, people change. MB: But even after when you did the Thriller album, your lips are very different now to what they were, they…. MJ: No. MB: But they do look different. You don’t think so? MJ: No, sorry. *** never. MB: But you know, on the serious point, in some ways I can understand it, because… MJ: I’m happy with my lips. MB: No, but… let’s forget about the lips. It’s *****, but… MJ: Everybody in Hollywood get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery wasn’t invented from Michael Jackson. MB: No, I’m not suggesting it was invented from Michael Jackson, but what I’m saying is, sometimes, people go ****. If they got a lot of money, and they have an opportunity, sometimes they can think, “” oh, I’ll do things.” Especially given your childhood, I mean, while we’ve talked, I’ve become, I’ve began to understand how difficult that was for you. How unhappy you were as a child. As an adolescent, how unhappy you were about your appearance. You told me in Neverland that you father used to insult you. You told me in Las Vegas that your father used to talk about your nose. So I can understand why you want to changer your appearance. It makes sense. I wouldn’t want…… MJ: Just that *****, not the whole face, just the nose. They try to say, “why do you keep changing such through?” It’s just the nose, you know. MB: Even though the shape of your face is different. MJ: Cause I’ve changed. I was a little kid. My face is square now. MB: How have you changed? No, I’m talking about the pictures of you when you were 20s. MJ: No, I’m still, I was changing, I’m telling you the honest truth. I don’t do anything to my face. MB: Honestly? MJ: Honestly! We broke off, but not for long. Next stop, what I worry is about the children.

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MB: When I was talking to Prince on day, he said to me that he didn’t have a mother. MJ: He said he didn’t haven’t a mother? MB: Yeah, I said, “ Prince, where’s your mommy?” and he said, “I haven’t got a mother.” MJ: That’s right. MB: Did you tell him to say that? MJ: No. MB: What do you think he means when he says I haven’t got a mother? MJ: I ******* say he didn’t have a mother. MB: Do you not think so that your children would benefit from contact with their mother? MJ: No, cause she doesn’t… it’s private information, she doesn’t… she can’t handle it. MB: She can’t handle *** her children. MJ: She preferred them to be with me than with her. MB: Did you know that she didn’t want to have a relationship with the children when you married her? MJ: Yeah, she did it for me. MB: So just *** understand this correctly. MJ: She is a wonderful person to me. MB: She knew that Michael Jackson loves children and she knew that Michael Jackson wanted children. MJ: Yeah, that’s why. She needed me to be a daddy. MB: Right? She said you need to be a daddy? MJ: En. MB: More than she needed to be a mother. MJ: Yeah. She wanted to do that for me as a present. MB: As a present? MJ: Yeah, yeah. MB: What do you mean.? MJ: It’s a gift. I used to walking around holding baby dolls. MB: Really? MJ: Yeah, cause I want children so badly. MB: You’ve just said your wife gave you two children as present, because she knew you wanted to be a father. MJ: Yeah. That’s a lovely gesture. MB: Wow, it’s an incredible gesture! MJ: Yeah. There are *** mothers who do that everyday. That happens everyday in the world. It’s happening right now. MB: That’s how Blanket was born as well. MJ: I used to *** a mother on my own sperm cells. I had my own sperm cell in **** other to children. They’re all my children. But I used to select a mother. She doesn’t know me, I don’t know her. It’s how it was born. MB: How did you select the mother adventurous? MJ: It doesn’t matter to me, long as she was healthy, ****. I don’t care what race. I said long as she’s healthy and she doesn’t have eye…. You know, her vision’s good, and her intellect. I want to know how intelligent she is. MB: Would you have had, would you have conceived the child with a black women, ****** mother? MJ: Of course, of course. MB: But I’ve seen Blanket, and I think ******, his mother was probably a white. MJ: No, you’re wrong. MB: I’m wrong? Oh really? So Blanket’s mother’s black. MJ: Yeah. MB: But Blanket is so light. MJ: Black people were called color people because we **** colors from very white, as white as my hand, to very dark, as dark of your shirt. My father has *****, you know. When they see Paris they always think Debbie, ******. I could say it’s been my father’s change, you know. MB: Really? MJ: Of course. MB: So when do you think you’re gonna have your next child? MJ: I was like to have it today. MB: Really? MJ: I’m thinking about adopting two kids from each continent around the world. MB: Really? MJ: Yeah, boy and girl, from each continent. MB: Every continent. MJ: Yeah, from every continent. That’ my dream.

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So it was that we came back to our meeting at Neverland with 12-year-old Gavin. I’d found it easily the most disturbing moment of the past day months. MB: When you’re talking about children, we met Gavin. It was a great privilege to meet Gavin because he’s had a lot of suffering in his life. When Gavin was there, he talked about the fact that he shares your bedroom. Can you understand why people would worry about that? MJ: Because they are ignorant. MB: But it ****** with a child who is not related to him at all. MJ: That’s the beautiful thing. MB: That’s not a worrying thing? MJ: Why should be worrying? Who’s the criminal? Who’s ***** raper in the room? This *** guy try to help *** child. I’m ****** sleeping bag on the floor. I gave him the bed, ********** brother’s name Star. So him and Star took the bed and I’m on the floor on the sleeping bag. MB: Did you ever sleep in the bed with them? MJ: No, but I had slept in the bed with many children, I sleep in the bed with all of them. ******* on this side, ****** on this side. His sister were in there. We’re all just jammed in the bed. We wake up at dawn and go on the **** balloon. We have the footage. I have all that footage. MB: But is that right, Michael? MJ: It’s very right, it’s very loving. That’s what the world’s needs now, more love more needs in heart. MB: The world needs a man who is 44 sleeping in the bed with children? MJ: NO, no, you’re making it all wrong. MB: Well, tell, help me. MJ: Because ***** sharing your love. You don’t sleep with your kids or some other kid who needs love, who didn’t have a good childhood? MB: No, I don’t. I would never dream of sleeping, I would never dream… MJ: I would, I would. Cause I’ve been what I’ve been, mentally. ***** MB: What do you think people would say if I, say, well I’ve invited some of my daughter’s friends around or my son’s friends around and they gonna sleep in the bed with me tonight? MJ: That’s fine! MB: What do you think that parents would say… MJ: If they are **** they would say you can. But if you are close family, **** family, you know them well, and… MB: But Michael, I wouldn’t like my children to sleep in anybody else’s bed. MJ: Well, I wouldn’t mind if I knew the person well. ***** very close ******. Paris and Prince can stay with him anytime. My children sleep with other people all the time. MB: And you’re happy with that. MJ: Fine with it. They’re honest, they are sweet people, they’re not *** the raper. MB: I suppose the problem that many people is what happened in 1993, or what didn’t happen. MJ: What didn’t happen. MB: Just cast your mind back, what was that like when you first heard the allegations that would be made against to you. MJ: It was shocking and I’m not talk about this by way of law. So… MB: But how did you feel about? What was being said? I’m not asking you about what was said. MJ: I was shocked because God knows in my heart how much I adore my children. MB: But it’s not precisely the problem when you actually invited children into your bed. You never know what’s gonna happen. MJ: When you say bed, you think it sexual. They make that sexual. It’s not sexual, we’ve going to sleep. I *** them ****. I put a little like music on, and ****** story to, I read the book. It’s very sweet. Put the fireplace on, give them hot milk. We have cookies. It’s very charming, very sweet. It’s the whole world should do. MB: The reason that’s been given for why you didn’t go to jail was because you reached a financial settlement with the family. MJ: Yeah, I don’t want to do a long *** thing on TV like ***. That’s stupid staff. It wouldn’t look right. I just said look, get it over away. I wanted to go on with my life. This is ridiculous, I’ve had enough. Go. I questioned him much further, but the confidential *** agreement he signed means we can’t show that part of the interview. My questions had upset him deeply. MJ: People don’t even eat with their fathers anymore, their mothers. The family bond has been broken, it’s an outcry for attention why kids were going to school with guns. They want love. They want to be touched, they want to be helped with their busy off from their day job. They leave them at home on computers. They just do all kind of crazy staff. That’s *** world. We need to bond again. That’s very important, Martain… MB: Why does it mean so much to you. MJ: I’m just very sensitive to their pain and I’m very sensitive to the family, the human condition on that subject. It means a lot to me. I want to help do whatever I can to help that. I *** said before, I’ve said it a million times and I’m not afraid to say it. If there were no children on this earth, if somebody announce all kids have dead. I would jump off the balcony immediately. I’m done, I’m done. So I left Michael Jackson, as he prepared to go back to Neverland. What I’ve come to realize was that Neverland wasn’t just a home near Los Angeles; it was Michael Jackson’s world, wherever he had it to be. A place where his enormous wealth allowed him to do what he wanted, when he wanted, how he wanted. It’s the place that he’d created. He’d lived there since he was a child and it was clear that he would never leave. But for me, it was time to say goodbye to Neverland.