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[music]
For three decades, the music, the dance,
[music]
the King of Pop, the billion-dollar
entertainer.
[music]
And then, at the height of his success,
came the charges, the police
investigation, and a superstar shaken
goes into hiding.
Tonight,
[music]
Michael Jackson, the interview we've
been waiting for, live and for the first
time, [music] the woman he married. Two
legendary families united. Home videos
of the wedding that startled the world.
Lisa Marie Presley, [music]
Michael Jackson, center stage and on the
record.
[music]
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Make no mistake about it, for all that
fantasy and flash, Michael Jackson is
serious business. Ask anyone in this
town. Ask the people at Sony Music who
say his next album and videos alone
could bring in close to $1 billion
worldwide.
So, it's not hard to understand why the
shockwave of those allegations two years
ago registered like the last earthquake
out here. Why everyone wants to know, is
he really on his way back?
This is the old MGM set at Sony
Pictures, where all those dreams were
put on film.
Seemed like a good place to begin this
hour because whatever you think about
Michael Jackson Motown
[music]
This is the audition which Michael
Jackson charms, glides, and spins his
family into stardom.
But we've also heard the other side of
this fairy tale. The brothers claim that
their father drove them brutally, beat
them.
This is the man Michael said made him
nauseous with fear.
I didn't know anything about him being
sick but he regurgitated but if he
did regurgitated he he regurgitated all
the way to the bank.
But on stage the little boy felt
invulnerable wielding the voice that
wouldn't change for the next 25 years.
[music]
Even as the singer radically changed.
We sat down a week and a half ago to
talk only about music. We looked at the
Ed Sullivan show, 1970.
He remembers exactly what he was
thinking.
That the whole world was like watching.
[music]
My father used to always say
don't mess up. You know, and
I felt I knew all every part. If and if
something went wrong I felt I could
cover it.
[music]
But by adolescence a private [music]
price was being paid. He said it was
agony when people stared clearly wishing
that he was still that cute little boy.
At the time his [music] mother worried
that he was withdrawing.
Michael's quiet now. When he was younger
he wasn't that quiet. But I don't know.
I think the stage might have done that
to him. Being around you know everyday
people and stuff I feel strange. I do.
Shy? Yeah. 1979, 2020. He told Sylvia
Chase, "People won't let him be just
normal." They won't talk to me like they
would
a next door neighbor.
I wanted to do the five spins then go on
the toes and freeze there and just hold
it and stay there, you know, and I
didn't but
they didn't know.
It's the devil's bargain, a
perfectionist trying to give the
audience more, a chameleon whose changes
are more and more extreme, making you
wonder if it's all still part of his
plan or like Faust, his prison. As even
today, Jackson obsesses
over every word, every move, every
sound. Listen.
Hit it.
[music]
What you're hearing is not an electric
drum machine, it's a hardwired 48-track
digitally mastered human. What I mean so
I'll take that and use that as the main
foundation for the track and build
all the sounds around that. What I'm
saying?
So whatever the future, the music will
always be inside the man who says soon
he'll be back where he's most at home.
Are you really anxious to get back on
stage?
Um
I miss the fans. Yeah. I
That's my chance to get to really, you
know, see them and feel their presence.
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And you do a concert and it's like
100,000 people out there
and you see a sea of people singing
along to your music and holding up
candles and you go, "Wow."
You know, it just really makes your
heart happy and that's what really make
you feel like everything's okay.
[music]
[music]
But as we said 2 years ago that shy man
faced some grave accusations that he had
molested a young boy.
As the headlines raged, a lot of people
wondered if what had seemed merely
eccentric was in fact something
sinister.
And the children always around him, were
they lured by a seducer?
The lingering question was, was Michael
Jackson guilty or had he been put
through 2 years of unequaled injustice
and hell?
For parents, a warning, it's an adult
topic.
This was the allegation. A 12-year-old
boy said that over a period of 4 months
while repeatedly sleeping alone in the
same bed with Michael Jackson, there was
kissing, then fondling.
The boy said he had protested but
Jackson had wept saying it was all
right, other boys had done it with him.
That was the allegation. But for the
prosecution, there were problems. The
boy had spoken at the urging of his
father who was also seeking custody.
And the father had talked to the Jackson
camp about money. $20 million according
to the Jackson team. This is that father
talking to someone he knew on tape. If I
go through with this, I win big time.
There's no way that I lose. But whatever
the circumstances of the disclosure,
authorities say they believed the boy's
story.
The investigation of Michael Jackson was
set in motion and within days hit the
airwaves. Tonight, a police
investigation into allegations that
Michael Jackson sexually abused a young
boy. The pop star Michael Jackson under
investigation for alleged child abuse.
It was a tabloid feeding frenzy as
people who worked for Jackson shopped
stories all claiming titillating
knowledge of what they called his
special friends.
And even when some of Jackson's young
friends tried to defend him, they raised
other troubling questions. This an
11-year-old boy, Brett Barnes, talking
to a TV interviewer.
When you'd have sleepovers and you'd
stay in the same room or the same bed,
did that seem unusual to you at all? No.
Cuz I slept on one side of the bed, he
slept on the other, and that was that.
After several months of headlines,
Jackson, on tour and then reportedly in
treatment for addiction to painkillers,
returned to the United States and
submitted to a series of police
photographs. Sources say to see if they
matched his accuser's description of
identifying marks on what authorities
called his private parts.
December 22nd, Jackson went public.
Don't treat me like a criminal cuz I am
innocent.
I have been forced to submit to a
dehumanizing
and humiliating examination by the Santa
Barbara County Sheriff Department and
the Los Angeles Police Department
earlier this week.
They served a search warrant on me which
allowed them to view and photograph my
body including my penis,
my buttocks, my lower torso, thighs, and
any other area that they wanted. One
month later, January 25th, 1994, Michael
Jackson settled the civil suit filed by
his young accuser.
How much? Reportedly in the neighborhood
of 15 to 20 million dollars.
After the settlement, the boy refused to
testify in the criminal case. So, after
13 months of headlines, the prosecutor
said it was over. We must decline
prosecution
involving Mr. Jackson.
They had no other children who would
come forward in court and none of the
employees who claimed to have seen
questionable things had a story that
could be confirmed by a child.
To this day, a number of investigators
remain convinced that glamour and money
are so attractive they can produce
loyalty and silence. While Jackson's
team insists that it ended because
nothing happened in the first place.
[music]
And with me, of course, Michael Jackson
and Lisa Marie Presley. Welcome to
Primetime. Glad you're here.
It occurs to me looking at the two of
you, I have got to start by asking how
this marriage
took place, how it began. Let me guess
that it was not over miniature golf and
a and a hot dog someplace.
When did it start? When was the dating?
Well, we first met. She was 7 years old
and I was 17.
This was in Las Vegas. She used to come
and see my show all the time. We had the
only family show on the strip.
It was the Jackson 5 and um
she used to come as a little girl and
sit right up front. She came quite
often. She came with a lot of
bodyguards.
And had you stayed in touch over all
these years?
Sure. Sure. Then she'd come backstage
and I, you know, talk and say hi. Then
she'd come again.
And I thought she was sweet and loving
and I hope I I always hoped I'd see her
again.
And who first talked about marriage?
We didn't stay in touch after that. We
didn't stay in touch after that, no.
He
He had go ahead. You want to say
what happened?
can say You can say it. You have a good
memory. No, you said you were going to
say it. Our first argument here on this
hour. Um who who proposed? I mean, how
did marriage actually get discussed?
Well, Well, at first, this is what
happened. When she was 18, I used to
tell my lawyer, John Branca, "Do you
know Lisa Marie Presley?" Go, "Well, I
represent her mother." I go, "Well, can
you get in touch with her cuz
I think she's really cute." And he'd
laugh every time.
He goes, "I'll do my best." That's what
he'd say.
Then he'd come back. I said, "Well, did
you find out?" He said, "No, there's
nothing." So, I would worry him about
this all the time. And the next thing I
know, there's a picture on a magazine
cover and where she's married, which
really tore me to pieces.
And then cuz I felt that was supposed to
be me. I really did. And what What was
the countdown to your marriage? Tell me
who said the word marriage first?
He did. When? Where? When? Where?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, on the telephone.
asked me. We were dating now for 4
months. Um
right? 4 months? I don't remember. Well,
anyway, we were spending a lot of time
together. I don't know how it didn't
manage to get in the press cuz we
weren't hiding it.
I was in Las Vegas. We were in Never
mind.
Everywhere. I went to Never mind. We
were in bookstores. We were in
bookstores. We were not hiding it. And
you said yes right away? I was separated
for 4 months, and I said he said, "What
would you do if I asked you
to marry me?" And I said, "I would."
Um A big I would. Oh, you were really
enthu- enthusiastic.
[laughter]
I have to ask you this because I can
only imagine the number of lawyers
involved in a prenuptial agreement
between these two fortunes.
Is there one?
A careful one? Well, we've worked out
things, and we've signed certain things,
but of course, that's very confidential.
We agree. We made agreements prior, yes.
As you know, the reaction to this
marriage, and I know you feel strongly
about it, but the reaction to this
marriage has been across the spectrum,
everything from astonishment
to delight
to suspicion.
That it was somehow
too convenient.
Lisa, did Did you ask Michael about the
charges?
Did the two of you talk about the impact
of the marriage on the allegations?
Absolutely not. He called I was in touch
with him through the whole process of
this charges going on. I was talking to
him when he disappeared.
I was actually supposed to go to San
Juan, Puerto Rico when
he left and disappeared and I got a call
that he wasn't going to be there and I
was actually part of the whole thing
with him but talking to him on the
phone.
So, I didn't Did you say to him, are
they true? No, I didn't.
No.
I actually did not.
I want to take a minute here and I'm
going to come back to the carriage.
sorry. He He went on and on and on about
it. So, I didn't really have to say, are
the allegations true? It was
you know,
[screaming]
on the phone, you know,
and just constant, yeah.
Well, because I know that you've wanted
to express similar sentiments for a long
time. I want to ask a few things about
the charges but first I want to
establish for the viewers here, there
are no ground rules. You have said to me
you were not afraid of any questions.
So, wanted that understood by everybody
before we proceed.
I think I want to begin
by making sure that the terms are clear.
You have said that you would never harm
a child. I want to be specific as I can.
Did you ever
as this young boy said you did, did you
ever
sexually engage, fondle, have sexual
contact with this child or any other
child? Never, ever. I could never harm a
child or anyone. It's not in my heart.
It's not who I am
and it's not what I meant I'm not even
interested in that. And what do you
think should be done to someone who does
that?
To someone who does that, what I think
it should be done, gee,
I think they need help
in some kind of way,
you know?
How about the police photographs though?
How was there enough information from
this boy about those kinds of things?
The police photographs
Absolutely so. they took of me. There
was nothing that matched me to those
charges.
That's why I'm sitting here talking to
you today. Every There was not one iota
of information that was found that could
connect me So when we've heard that
there was a marking of some kind No
markings. No markings.
No.
Why did you settle
still here then?
You're not going to ask me about that,
are you?
Sorry, about the markings.
You can volunteer. No, I'm just The
point is is that when that finally got
concluded that there was no match up
then it was printed this big as opposed
to how big it was what the match up was
supposed to be. It didn't work. It never
It never It isn't so.
Why did you settle the case then? Why
did you settle the case? And And it
looks to everyone as if you paid a huge
amount of money.
That's Most of that's for silence.
I talked to my lawyers and I said, "Can
you guarantee me that justice will
prevail?" And they said, "Michael, we
cannot guarantee you that a judge or
jury will do anything." And with that, I
was like catatonic. I was outraged.
How much money was it?
Totally outraged. So what I said
I have got to do something to get out
from under this nightmare. All these
lies and all these people coming forward
to get paid and and these tabloid shows
just lies lies lies lies. So what I did,
we got together again with my advisers
and they advised me it was hands down a
unanimous decision resolve the case.
This could be something that could go on
for 7 years. How much money was Let's
get it behind us. Can you say how much?
It's not what the tabloids have printed.
It's not all this crazy outlandish one.
No, it's not at all. I mean, the terms
of the agreement are very confidential.
You are barred to discuss it.
They They
The specific terms
terms The specific amounts The idea is
just isn't fair what they put me through
cuz there wasn't one piece of
information that says I did that in any
way. They turned my room upside down,
went through all my books, all my video
tapes, all my private things, and they
found nothing. Nothing, nothing that can
say Michael Jackson did this. Nothing.
But let me ask you a couple of
questions.
Still, nothing. Let me ask you a couple
Nothing, nothing, nothing. Nothing. I
got nothing.
As you may or may not know, we have
called everyone we can call, we have
checked everything we can check. We have
gone and tried to see if what we heard
before is in fact the case. I want to
ask you about two things.
These reports that we read over and over
again that in your rooms they found
photographs of young boys, Not of young
boys.
of children, all kind of girls and
everything. And that they found
photographs, books, of young boys who
were undressed.
No. Didn't happen. No. Not that I know
of, unless people sent me things that I
haven't opened. People sent People know
my love for children, so they send me
books from all over the world, from
South America, from Germany, from Italy,
from Sweden, So if people say that that
they found those things, if there's an
indication, let them come forward, let
them produce them, right?
Yeah, because I get all I I get all kind
You wouldn't believe the amounts of mail
that I get. And if you say to somebody,
you know, you if I let the fans know I
love Charlie Chaplin, I'll be swarmed in
Charlie Chaplin paraphernalia. One of
the
I say I love children, which I do, they
swarm me with everything pertaining to
kids. Any other settlements
in process now or previously with
children making these kinds of claims?
We have heard that there is one. Not Not
a case that the prosecutors would bring
in court, but that once again, you're
talking about shelling out No, that's
not true. No. No. No, it's not true. I
think I've heard everything is fine and
there are no others.
I guess Let me ask this, and I'm trying
to think how to phrase it, though.
I can hear out in the country
[clears throat]
people saying and and you've been
cleared of all the charges, we want to
make that clear. People saying, "Look,
here is a man who is surrounded by
things that children love. Here is a man
who's spent an inordinate amount of time
with these young boys.
What is a 36-year-old man doing sleeping
with a 12-year-old boy or a series of
them? Right. Okay, when you say boys,
it's not just boys and I've never
invited just boys to come in my room.
Come on, that's ridiculous. That's a
ridiculous question. But I since people
want to hear it,
you know, the answer, I'll be happy to
answer it. I have never invited anyone
into my bed ever. Children love me, I
love them. They follow me. They want to
be with me. But anybody can come in my
bed. Child can come in my bed if they
want.
I can say sorry. I've seen this. I've
seen it a lot. I've seen kids. I've seen
him with children in the last year. I've
seen it enough to where I can see how
that can happen. It's you know, I
understand
Isn't part of being an adult and you
have a two-year-old child?
Two-year-old boy. Yeah, let me just let
me just sorry. I I just wanted to say
that I've seen these children. They
don't let him go to the bathroom without
running in there with him. And they
won't let him out of their sight. So
when he jumps in the bed, I'm even out.
You know, they they jump in the bed with
him. But isn't part of being an adult
and loving children keeping children
from ambiguous
situations?
And again, we're talking about over an
intense period of time here.
Would you
let your son when he grows up
and is 12 years old do that? You know
what? If I if I didn't know who Michael
no way.
But I happen to know who he is and what
he is and that makes it
you know, I know that he's not you know,
I know that he's not like that and I
know he has a thing for children and I
go ahead. Sorry. I just wonder is it
over? You're going to make sure it
doesn't happen again. I think this is
really the thing people want to know
that that there not going to be more of
these sleepovers in which people have to
wonder. Nobody wonders when kids sleep
over at my house. But are they over? Are
you are you going to watch out for it
now?
Watch out for what? for
sake of the children and for everything
you've been through.
it's all moral and it's all pure. I
don't even think that way. It's not
what's in my heart. So, you'll you'll do
it again?
Do what again? I mean, you'll have a
child sleeping over.
They want Yes.
It's on the level of purity and love and
just innocence, complete innocence. If
you're talking about sex, then that's a
nut. That's not me. Go to the guy down
the street cuz it's not Michael Jackson.
It's not what I'm interested in.
Okay, but Elizabeth Taylor talked to us
a little bit about what she saw when she
went over
and talked to you in the middle of this,
what she called agony. And one of the
things she was so I think she was so
angry about with us was that she said
people always talk about one side of a
person. They never give them credit for
their accomplishments, particularly what
they give to children and the money you
give to children. That's how it starts.
When he's on tour,
he goes to hospitals
without the press following him,
without anyone knowing.
He'll get up in a disguise and do it.
Take his disguise off when he's there,
and kids know, "Wow, it's Michael
Jackson."
Was there no point at which you said to
yourself,
reading everything everybody had been
reading,
"Maybe this is true. Maybe I completely
didn't understand who he was." No way.
Absolutely not. Never. Never.
I know Michael's heart.
I know
his mind and his soul.
I'm not that insensitive,
especially to him or people I love. How
did you decide to go to Singapore?
He was my friend.
He was alone. He was totally alone.
And he just uh
he needed help.
Nothing in the world could have hurt him
more. If it had been calculated
if they'd planned an assassination, they
couldn't have done it any better.
It almost
it almost broke his heart.
She says she recognized a friend turning
to painkillers for escape. He wasn't
aware of what was happening. He was
dulling his pain.
But it really frightened me because I
have been there.
And I I know how easy it is to get there
when you're in mental
or physical pain. And
he knew right away that he had to
deal with it, too.
Not right away.
Not right away, but he knew.
There were some reports during this
period, Michael, that it was such agony
for you that you were actually suicidal.
Is that true? I was never suicidal. I
love life too much to ever be suicidal.
I'm resilient. I have rhinoceros skin.
Never, ever suicidal.
Did it leave you
though
Heartbroken, but not suicidal.
Did it leave you changed completely? I
I've talked to you a little bit about
what you're thinking about where you
want to live
in the world. Did it change your view
about living here? You thinking about
living someplace else? I don't care to
stay in America anymore. No.
I I don't care. I I will always have
Neverland, you know, because I I love
Neverland, but I don't like I'm very
sensitive to the smog.
You know, so I can't have the smog.
And uh I would like to go abroad.
Matter of fact, I am.
You are? Yes.
Oh, I haven't decided exact place yet.
Probably South Africa. To live
permanently? Maybe uh Switzerland.
Lisa, are you
just in favor of it? Wait, just going
into the fact that we don't live in
separate houses for to start this
don't even have This is just me
drinking.
with the cameras. Anyway, um Sorry.
No, jump in.
What What do I feel about the overseas
thing? I think that it's a nice place to
visit, yes. I would like to have a a
house over there. Mhm.
I'd be completely and utterly harassed
beyond belief, but
Before we move away from the last 2
years, we told you because we want to
that we are going to show what is really
your comment of those 2 years, and it is
a video you've done with your sister
Janet called Scream. And in it you have
some words for middle-aged people who
can't follow these words.
Uh the words you'll hear will be about
confusion, bashing, victimizing. Stop
pressuring me, he says.
Makes me want to scream the last 2
years.
We have some wedding video of the two of
you, and I'm going to let you tell us a
little bit about what we're seeing here.
If our director Roger Goodman wants to
roll it in, we will take you there a
year ago, right? Just about exactly. I
look like an idiot, I can tell you that.
look like an idiot. You look more like a
No.
Do you want me to tell you watching it?
Tell us.
We're watching.
Tell us we're watching here live.
I do.
I do.
From the middle years, he asks for his
autograph.
You know
Thank you more.
Yeah, I did it. All right, but now we're
out of time.
Congratulations. Thank you.
Congratulations, and then we'll then
we'll do the rings, okay? Thanks.
You do? Yes. She He do it.
He does it. question. You put it on her
first, okay? And when you put it you say
with this ring I do it. With this ring I
do it. Right. And you do it the same
thing. When you put his ring as you say
with this ring I do it.
Right now?
So, I know that you Lisa Marie have
wanted to talk about this. There are a
lot of doubters about this marriage.
I've heard that it's a Scientology plan.
You're a member of the Church of
Scientology which is said to influence
its members greatly and that
the husband you divorced was
Scientologist and he's still very much
in your life and this is all part of a
calculation to get Michael and his money
into the church. Mhm.
Do you think It's crap. I'm sorry. It
It's like ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever
heard. I'm not
Um first of all you can't get influenced
by anything
um
like that and and on under a term of a
marriage. Um
I'm not going to marry somebody for any
reason other than the fact that I fell
in love with him. Period. Period. And
they can eat it if they want to think
anything different.
To put it succinctly.
Yeah.
What is it you love the most about him?
Oh. Um what do I love the most about
him?
Everything. Every He's amazing. I really
admire him. I respect him. I admire him.
I'm in love with him.
And no we don't sleep in separate
bedrooms. Thank you very much. And um
I love everything about him. To finish
up on that though, are you a
Scientologist? Are No. No. Plan to
become one? I believe in spirituality
and I believe in a higher source such as
God, but I'm not a Scientologist. I read
everything. I like to read. I love to
study.
You said you don't sleep in separate
bedrooms and I'm going to confess, okay,
this is live TV and I'm copping out
right here because I didn't spend my
life as a serious journalist to ask
these kinds of questions, but I'm not
oblivious to the fact that your fans had
one question they most wanted to ask of
you. Do we have sex? We have you She She
She didn't ask. I don't know. I don't
know. I want to ask. Okay. You don't
know what it was going to be.
Is that what you were going to ask?
Let's play just a minute or two. Sorry.
Let's play one or two. We want to know
if you've done the thing. Michael, I
know that this is an intimate question,
but are you having sex together with
Lisa Marie?
Do you guys really love each other or
you're just doing this to satisfy the
media?
Are you guys intimate?
Again I can't believe it. This is about
the skepticism.
Yes. Yes. Yes. And we have read in the
papers that you are expecting a child.
We will be expecting a child. Now, when
I'm not going to We're not going to say
when. It's in the hands of the heavens,
but not yet. Did we marry out of
convenience? That's really interesting
to me. Really interesting to me. Why?
Well, why wouldn't we have a lot in
common? That's the question. Why? Why
not?
Like we're faking this?
Like No, but you can't live with
somebody day-to-day. We're together all
the time, first of all. Second thing,
how can you fake that 24 hours a day
with somebody, sleeping with somebody,
waking up with somebody, having the
He's running around the house, I'm
running around the house. You were in
our house. We have a normal house. We
have a nanny. We have a maid. And we
walk around and he's either in the
studio, I'm in the kitchen. We're
running around like normal, I know it's
hard to believe, people.
You go shopping together. You
We go shopping. We go out to dinner. We
argue sometimes.
And About what, may I say?
We also heard a report that maybe you
were planning to adopt the children. Oh,
I would love to adopt children. I think
that's something I've always wanted to
do, but children of all races, Arab
children,
Jewish children, black children, it's
all races. But Lisa's children, the
We I love Lisa's children, but it's been
a mission
or
Pardon? To adopt them, though. Oh, I
love her children. They're sweet. But to
adopt, no. Of course.
But he they have a biological father and
he's the he's their I think they love me
very much. I love them.
They do. We have a lot of fun.
never heard of that before personally of
someone adopting someone's children
while they're in a relationship with
that person. We're going to show you a
film now created by Michael Jackson and
it is causing a furor in some movie
theaters around this country. They say
among other things that it is clearly
modeled after Triumph of the Will, Leni
Riefenstahl, a Nazi film It's not true.
None of that's true. None of those
things are true.
Did you watch that film before you did
it? I watch everything.
I love movies. I love documentaries. Had
nothing to do with that at all. But
there are people who keep saying this is
They look at it and say this is
Absolutely not.
You know what?
to do with politics or communism or
fascism well at all. The critics have
said that it's the most boldly vain
glorious self deification of pop singer
ever undertook with a straight face.
Good. That's what I wanted.
For the controversy? [snorts]
Yeah. And for the people who say that
those symbols matter
wanted
I wanted everybody's attention.
But for the people who say those symbols
matter, they're about the suffering
Symbols has nothing to do with that.
It's not political. It's not fascist.
It's not dogma. It's not you know
ideology and all of this stuff. It's
pure simple love. You don't see any
tanks. You don't see any cannons. It's
about love. It's people coming together
about love.
We're going to let everybody watch a bit
of this. Art is art. Okay.
The way a director would use the medium
to create art. Here it come.
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Well, as we said, we're going to clearly
agree to disagree maybe on what this
means to some people watching it.
There's been another issue raised in a
song you say Jew me, sue me, and some
people are saying that that is
anti-Semitic. It's not anti-Semitic
because I'm not a racist person. I could
never be a racist. I love all races of
people from Arabs to Jewish people, like
I said before, to blacks. But when I say
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me, kick
me, kike me, don't you black or white
me, I'm talking about myself as the
victim.
You know, my my accountant and lawyers
are Jewish. My three best friends are
Jewish, David Geffen, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, Mike
Milken. These are friends of mine.
They're all Jewish. So, how does that
make sense? I was raised in a Jewish
community. I want to ask you both about
something cuz it was the second most
asked question by people on the street.
And I know I know it's a sensitive issue
for you and you talked with Oprah about
it, but somehow people still are not
They don't feel they've heard everything
about
the whiteness of your skin and that it's
not somehow a choice on your part along
with the makeup to be is it to be
neither black or white neither
to look completely male to be in the
androgynous zone.
I I think they want to know it is a
decision on your part some way.
The way you look. Where does it come
from?
I think it creates itself, nature.
He's He's an artist. He has every right
and he's constantly remodifying
something or changing it or
reconstructing it or you know, working
on some imperfection that he thinks
needs to be worked on. If he sees
something he doesn't like, he changes
it. Period. He re-sculpted himself. He's
an artist.
I might want to put a red dot right
there one day.
But two eyes right here. Do you wish you
were
the color you were again? Do I wish I
was the color again?
that. I loved I love black.
Do you wish you were that way?
I envy her cuz she can tan and I can't.
One more question I want to make sure I
ask. Are you going to sing together? No,
the I would love to sing with you.
Would you like to sing with me?
sing? I don't sing. I I did sing, but
that's not why I married Michael.
Um I don't need that. That's ridiculous.
If I wanted it I mean, I'm not going to
marry someone for a recording career
just to clear that up as well.
Um
What?
Stop.
And as our ends, I'd like to just ask
each of you for a one-sentence answer.
Time's so short.
Where do you want to be in 5 years?
Oh boy, uh I love what I'm doing now and
to do everything I can to help the
children. And hello Bobby Sherrod.
I just want people to know what they're
dealing with before and understand that
I'm not the, you know, that we are not
the jokes, the degrading comments, all
that kind of stuff. It's really
irritating. So I didn't get to get into
that. This is over already, but um stuff
We want to choke them.
All right. So 5 years from
believe the garbage. All the tabloid
junk. Don't read it. Don't listen to it.
It's garbage. It's junk. It's stupid.
And so enough of it. And tonight is
over.
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