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Loneliness, Wanting Children, and Lisa Marie Presley's Second Thouhgts(1)
本帖最后由 lovelymj 于 2009-10-9 07:26 编辑
SB: Let me ask you about loneliness. So wherever you travel, you, thank God, have an entourage. People you've been with for a long time, Frank and Skip [Michael's bodyguard at the time, a very pleasant and decent man from New Orleans]. But it's not like having a wife in your life or something. Do you get lonely? Or is there so much going on in your life that is doesn't really happen?
MJ: Like lonely for like a wife? For like a mate? Like that?
SB: Yeah.
MJ: I've been through two bad divorces and I just got out of the second one. Even when married to those women that I was married to, I'd go to bed hurting. I was hurting. I was crying last night as I went to sleep and I didn't sleep good last night. And I cry, Shmuely, because I feel this...and I'm not trying, I'm telling you the honest truth and if you don't believe me you can ask Frank. Frank knew how I was hurting. I just was feeling all the pain of the children who suffer and I was hurting so much. That's why I was trying to reach any child I knew who had pain, from [Michael mentions a little girls who was battling cancer and whose family he met at out home] to Gavin [Michael's later accuser]. I was trying to like, calling, dialing and I woke up the first thing, the first person I called was [the little girl's] house and she had gone already. It hurts me. But I think that's where my real love comes from, Shmuely. If I can help in that way I'm fine and I don't need the other [romantic love]. You know if I meet some girl somewhere and I think she;s beautiful, which I see a lot of them, that's great. I mean, I'll go on a date or something. Nothing wrong with that. Jennifer Lopez looked awfully good the other day, she did. I was shocked 'cause I never thought...She looked good. [Michael laughs as he says this].
SB: But have you given up on women understanding you? You tend to think that children will understand you a lot better?
MJ: I'm not easy to live with in that way for a wife. I;m not easy and I know I'm not easy. Because I give all my time to someone else. I give it to children, I give it to somebody sick somewhere, to the music. And women want to be the center. And I remember Lisa Marie would always say to me, "I'm not a piece of furniture, I'm not a piece of furniture. You can't just...." I say, "I don't want you to be a piece of furniture," and, you know, there'd be some sick little girls calling on the phone and she'd get mad and hang up on them. And, you know, I feel that's my, that's my mission, Shmuely. I have to do it.
SB: What if you found that woman who was that soft, who was incredibly soft?
MJ: Like Mother Teresa or Lady Diana or....that would be great. It would be perfect.
SB: Would that be better than having to do it on your own?
MJ: Absolutely, and Lisa was great with going to the hospitals with me, and she was so sweet about that. They would tie the babies to the bed or chain the children down. We'd go unchain...we'd go free all these babies. I hated that and she, she discovered a lot of that injustice with me. Countries like Romania and Prague, Czechoslovakia and all that, Russia. You should see what they do to the children in those...you'd be shocked. They chain them to the wall like they're animals and they're naked and they slept in their tinkle and their feces too. It's just so sad, it made me sick. So we brought clothes and toys and just love and love. I love them and I went back every day visiting them, hugging them, wanting to take each and every one of them to Neverland.
SB: When you started becoming this childhood star, did you realize that your childhood was slowly sleeping away? You won a contest at age eight. In 1964, you were chosen as lead singer for the family band. Did that make you feel excited or where you worried? Did you think to yourself, "Where is all this headed? What's it going to lead to?"
MJ: I didn't think about it. I didn't think about the future. I just took each day as it came. I knew I wanted to be a star. I wanted to do things and make people happy.
SB: Did you know what the cost is going to be in terms of childhood?
MJ: No way. No way.
SB-The phone rings. Michael talks to the president of Sony Records, Tommy Mottola, who has invited Michael to his wedding. Michael says he wants to sit musicians with him so he can throw peanuts at Tommy. I think to myself, "Michael's playfulness never ends."
MJ on the phone: Tell the guys to let the music talk to them and not to, like, jump on right away. Listen to it a couple of times and let the melody create itself. That's the thing, let the the music speak to them. Alright? Goodbye.
SB: Is that your dream that one day, like part of the messianic future, as far as you're concerned, that all these kids will come and live in Neverland and live happily ever after?
MJ: Yes.
SB: And if you had the resources truly you would just...
MJ: I would do it, Shmuely. I would do it. I would love it.
SB: Lisa Marie was good about at least visiting. So she had no problem going and doing some of the compassionate things of giving these children love and making them feel special?
MJ: She had no problem doing that but her and I had several big arguments 'cause she's very territorial with her children. Her children were [ her major concern]....and I said, "No, all children are our children," and she never liked that coming from me. She was very angry about that. Plus, she had a fight with me one time when two little boys in London killed this other kid and I was going to visit them 'cause the queen gave them adult sentencing of life. These wee like eleven-and ten-year-old boys and I was going to go to the prison and visit them. She said, "You idiot. You're just rewarding them for what they did." I said, "How dare you say that." I said, " I bet if you trace their life you can find they didn't have parents around, they didn't have any love, nobody there to hold them look in their eyes and say, "I love you." They deserve that, even though they're going to get life, I just want to say I love you and hold them." She said, "Well, you're wrong." I said, "No, you're wrong." Then the information came out that they came from broken families, were never watched as little kids, attended to. Their pacifier was those Chucky movies with the stabbings and the killings. And that's how they became conditioned to that.
SB: Did she admit then that you had a point?
MJ: Nope, she thinks I'm rewarding bad kids.
SB: Did she want you to be a father to her children?
MJ: Well that was once asked of her. She was asked that question on TV and she said, " No, they have a father. Their father is Keogh," that other guy. But I was really good to her children. Every day I'd bring them home something and they;d be waiting by the window for me and hug me. I love them. I miss them so much.
SB: Did she get used to living in Neverland or was it too isolated?
MJ: Lisa didn't live at Neverland. We visited Neverland the way...I lived at her house in the city and every once in a while we visited Neverland. It'd be like out big fun weekend.
SB: And her children liked it?
MJ: Are you kidding me? They were like in heaven.
SB: And you were happy to show it to them?
MJ: Mm hmm.
SB: Did it have more meaning to you suddenly when you had a family you could show it to? |
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