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Elton John Says Michael Jackson Was 'A Disturbing Person To Be Around'
2022-08-02
[Women's Health] After over half a century of musical superstardom, Sir Elton John has got nothing to lose by being frank about his feelings. That’s why it’s no surprise that his new autobiography, Me: Elton John, is full of shocking revelations about his life in show business. Among those revelations are his comments about the late Michael Jackson, whom he calls, "mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around."

"I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14," John writes. "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."

John also speculates about Jackson’s tortured relationship with prescription drugs, alluding to his addiction to painkillers: "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 that the poor guy had totally lost his marbles. I don’t mean that in the lighthearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around."
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  I expect those were planned incidents for others.
Does seem like he has an aversion to needles though.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-08-02 23:41  

#11  ^^ how many times have you committed suicide dron?
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-02 21:14  

#10  Some people also use propofol for suicide. I used isoflurane once. It's cheaper and you don't have to inject it.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-02 15:26  

#9  I had foot surgery in 2020. They gave me propofol. How that became his recreational drug is a story of stoopid. That shit was awesome. For surgery.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-08-02 15:06  

#8  also, just because you're dead doesn't mean you were not a piece of shit during life.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-02 12:28  

#7  Pedophiles usually come off as "nice" guys.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-02 12:27  

#6  The only dead I have no respect for are those who were demonstrably harmful to others. Thinking Dahmer, Bundy, Stalin, Mao, etc.

Not some poor guy who was so messed up he used drugs until they killed him.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-02 11:50  

#5  ^ I disagree. I met him, granted, just for a few minutes, in a posh hotel lobby. But he was friendly and polite. Didn't come off as a freak at all, despite his appearance.

I can think of dozens of celebrities both alive and dead I'd rather not be in the same building, let alone the same room with.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-02 11:48  

#4  All the dissing the dead aside. When a freak says someone else is disturbing, it had to be bad... Jackson does not deserve the respect we have for the dead.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-08-02 11:45  

#3  /\ How brave to disrespect the departed, truly an act of courage!
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-02 11:29  

#2  Only way the old poofter can get any publicity is to dump on a dead guy. Classy.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-02 11:08  

#1  He disturbed me and I wasn't around him.
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-02 11:00  

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