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Sir Elton John says Michael Jackson was ‘disturbing to be around’
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By Rolling Out
Sir Elton John says Michael Jackson was “mentally ill” and “disturbing to be around.”
The “Rocket Man” singer — who first met the late King of Pop early on in his career — has claimed he became concerned about the “Billy Jean” hitmaker over the years.
In an excerpt from his new memoir Me, he wrote: “I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14…He was just the most adorable kid you could imagine.
“But at some point in the intervening years, he started sequestering himself away from the world and away from reality the way Elvis Presley did.”
He alleged: “God knows what was going on in his head, and God knows what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of, but every time I saw him in his later years I came away thinking the poor guy had totally lost his marbles.
“I don’t mean that in the light-hearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.”
The 72-year-old star also recalled a time he invited Jackson — who died at age 50 in 2009 — to a party, and he claimed the singer walked off and was found playing with his housekeeper’s son.
John said: “For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all.”
Meanwhile, last month Jackson’s family blasted Leaving Neverland after the Dan Reed documentary — by James Safechuck and Wade Robson and was branded “complete fiction” by his estate — won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.
The estate said in a statement: “For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce.
“Not one shred of proof supports this completely one-sided, so-called documentary which was made in secrecy and for which not one person outside of the two subjects and their families were interviewed.”
However, Reed believes that the five nominations and one win helped to “validate” the documentary, explaining: “It does help to validate the film, [which has] been so controversial.
This article originally appeared in RollingOut.com.
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