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Jermaine Writing Book On Life With MJ *Book To Be Released Sept 13*
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I kind of came to the same conclusion. I still kinda think it could go either way though. It seems as if he was saying " Don't try to act brand new.. I know how yall really felt."
Then he could be saying "yea, i know how yall felt."
N was Marlon ever at the trial?? Ive heard of Rebbie being there but not him. That always made me wonder but then again I know he separated himself from the family before.
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'I lifted one of his eyelids. I wanted to look into his eyes one last time'; times modern In this exclusive book extract Jermaine Jackson pieces together the last days and tragic death of his brother Michael
I saw the performer's glint return to Michael's eyes around the autumn of 2008 — the period when his life was back on track, his health was nearing peak fitness and he was physically preparing for the greatest comeback ever seen. He was, for the first time in a long while, just happy.
The guesswork about his health, especially after his death, warped the true picture. People point to a particular photograph, taken in July 2008, of my brother being pushed in a wheelchair, with captions like "too weak to stand, looking frail and in no condition to perform ..." That was exactly what Michael wanted the media to write. He was aware that everyone doubted he still had "it". So imagine if he bounced back, going from that state to this. Michael was doing a Willy Wonka, walking out of the chocolate factory to greet the crowds with a crippling limp as everyone gasps with shock — and then he stumbles ... tosses away the cane, does a somersault and everyone cheers. Gotcha. Because no comeback is truly a comeback until the odds seem impossible.
Michael's life had long been defined by indelible images that captured a myth: from oxygen chambers to surgical masks, from hotel balconies to "whiter" skin. This was him having the last laugh.
Michael was a master manipulator of image, knowing the paparazzi would like to think they'd "caught" him off guard. He wanted the ultimate vindication. The King of Pop turned Comeback King. And here's a fact to place alongside that wheelchair image: about two months later, he was engaged in brutal choreography training for a comeback tour that had not yet been revealed.
He started requesting CDs, just like old times. He was so obsessed about staying up-to-date that every week he was sent the Top Ten from the Billboard Hot 100 burnt on to one disc. His outlook was positive. His body was back in shape. His focus was the future.
After his This Is It concerts were done, he had two more tours up his sleeve: "back by popular demand" dates that no one knew about. I know what Michael said in March 2009: "When I say this is it, it really means 'this is it' ... this is the final curtain-call." That was his great tease: he was a master salesman, too, and if the world thought that London would be their last opportunity to see him perform, then they would rush to buy tickets.
I was out near Pasadena, the city at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, when a good friend — CNN host Larry King — called my wife's mobile phone to ask if we knew anything "about a TMZ report saying Michael has been being rushed to UCLA hospital". I wasn't immediately alarmed because it was hardly the first time the media had got excited about my brother being "rushed" to hospital. But then I called Mother and caught her hurrying out of the door at Hayvenhurst [the Jackson family home]. As soon as I heard her voice, I knew something was very wrong: she sounded fraught with anxiety. "Jermaine! I'm rushing down now. I'll call you when I get there! Leave now," she said.
At the hospital, a window looked into a room within a room. La Toya was already there, standing alone, leaning down towards Michael's face. He was lying on a trolley in a hospital gown.
I steadied myself, took a breath, and entered the side door to the right. I went over to the other side of Michael, reaching down to take his hand, rubbing his still-soft skin. I couldn't believe how skeletal he was. He seemed half the size he had been a month earlier. If a stranger had walked into the room, they would have assumed he had been ravaged by cancer or anorexia.
What's happened to you? I knew no amount of rigorous dancing could have left him in this state. I leant down and kissed him on the forehead, telling him I loved him. I found I couldn't pull away. I lifted one of his eyelids because I wanted to look into his eyes, "see" him one last time.
Look at me, Michael. Look at me. I rested my forehead against his and wept.
The autopsy report ruled that Michael had had a healthy heart and had died from "acute propofol intoxication". The media would go on to portray him falsely as a "junkie", trying to make the link with prescription-drug usage, but that wasn't the reason why his heart stopped: it was clear that the anaesthetic propofol was everywhere in his system.
Propofol is not a recreational drug and it was not prescription medicine. It is what people are given intravenously as an anaesthetic before major surgery, or doctors use it for sedation. This, I would find out, is what Michael relied on to be "knocked out" when he was desperate for sleep. According to the instructions it should be given only by a trained anaesthetist, and the patient's intake must be carefully monitored with the appropriate medical equipment in place.
Michael was usually beset by sleeping problems only on tour, so it was, to the best of my knowledge, a departure for him to be using this kind of sleep-inducer during rehearsals. It didn't surprise me that his insomnia was returning in the run-up to his London dates because of the unimaginable pressure to which he was subjected, most of it self-imposed. He was his own biggest rival in the relentless drive to be perfect in the great comeback he'd envisaged.
Pressure. It would become a theme in everything I went on to discover about the final days of his life.
By the start of June 2009, rehearsals were taking place at the Forum in Inglewood, California, and Michael was apparently still focused and businesslike. Everything was going wonderfully well.
But by mid-June Michael's health inexplicably started to deteriorate. It all seems to have begun when Michael missed rehearsals on June 13, 14 and 15. Even on the days when he did show up, there were occasions when he'd turn up at 8pm for a 2pm start, as if just getting out of the house was a struggle.
During the week that followed, further worrying signs stacked up. In the routine for Thriller, he turned left when he knew he had to turn right. That was odd in itself, but then he did it a second time. He also started repeating himself — a sentence or a phrase — like someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He struggled to finish one song and he sometimes needed a teleprompter for lyrics. Plus, he had to be helped up and down ramps and flights of stairs.
No one was giving Michael the kid-glove treatment. Instead, I know that he felt belittled on several occasions and he was also yelled at, as witnessed by people who were there. On one occasion, he deliberately spoke into his mike as he walked offstage: "I just want someone to be nice to me today ..." A voice from the floor yelled back: "If we could just have a coherent person here today!" "They wouldn't speak to me like that if Joseph [his father] was here," Michael muttered, off mike.
The thinner Michael became, the colder he got. He began shivering on stage; he was given a thick coat to wear.
Someone, without any authorisation from the promoter, AEG, placed a discreet call to a doctor whom Michael had consulted in the past. After the symptoms had been explained to him, the doctor said it sounded as if Michael was suffering from "toxic poisoning of the brain" and should get to a hospital. For reasons that remain maddening to me, he didn't go.
I have lain awake at night wondering what was making him so ill. Was his doctor giving him so much anaesthetic that it was slowly poisoning his system? Could my brother have known how much propofol was being injected into him? The more I hear about those final rehearsals, the clearer it seems that there was a focus on getting to London and hitting that target of 50 concert dates. Somewhere in the pressure that everyone felt, AEG viewed the King of Pop as a performing robot and lost sight of the human being.
AEG delegations were sent to Michael's home on June 18 and 20 to discuss his no-shows for rehearsals. He was left in no doubt that if he didn't step up and start delivering, they would not only pull the plug but he was in danger of "losing everything".
His contract with AEG stated that if he failed to perform he would be liable for all production costs and lost revenue, meaning that his assets, including his prized music catalogue, were collateral up for the taking.
On Saturday, June 20, the director Kenny Ortega visited Michael at home and one hour after he left, choreographer Travis Payne received a phone call from Kenny telling him to get to the house urgently. That same afternoon the musical director, Michael Bearden, made a bizarre announcement to dancers and crew on stage, telling them: "Everyone needs to pray for Michael and send him good wishes."
This was four days before Michael died. Why would he say such a thing? And why — if we're at the point of prayers — would the tour continue? Yet the show apparently had to go on.
Bizarrely, everything changed on the final two days of rehearsals, the 23rd and 24th. Michael suddenly showed up looking upbeat, sharp and reinvigorated. It was this version of my brother that the world saw during the This Is It movie; the temporary two-day truth for the box office, not the horrible truth of the preceding weeks.
That last night of his life, rehearsals ran late. There was a full dress rehearsal, which he carried out without a hitch, it seems, before he left at just after midnight on June 25.
When Michael got home he struggled to sleep, with his personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray (hired by AEG for the tour, at Michael's request) at his side. Within the next 12 hours, he would be dead. He was found on the left side of the bed, where Dr Murray says he tried to carry out CPR. On the floor there was a tube of toothpaste and a string of wooden beads. His laptop and a pair of glasses were on the bedside table. There was also a urine sample in the room. Next to the bed, a tan sofa was, apparently, Dr Murray's seat.
One fact that has been established from preliminary hearings is that Dr Murray used his iPhone a lot through the early hours of that fateful day. One call was to a woman he'd recently met, logged at 11.51am, some 15 minutes before my brother apparently stopped breathing.
She said she was talking to him when she realised that he wasn't listening any more but the line was still open and she heard "a commotion — I heard coughing and mumbling". She tried calling and texting him back, but received no reply.
We're finding it impossible to accept Michael's inexplicable decline and that one company didn't spot that something was seriously wrong.
As a family, we would like to know who else — if anyone — entered and left the house on the night of Michael's death, but although the LAPD are treating his death as homicide, its investigators decided to retain only the four minutes of CCTV footage showing Dr Murray's expected arrival. Unless the authorities surprise us, it seems that all other footage has been erased.
It is hard for us to understand why such crucial footage could be wiped like that. It makes us wonder if every stone has been turned in the LAPD's investigation: it has so far concentrated on one doctor, and one night.
I guess time will tell, but our only hope is that, ultimately, justice doesn't fail Michael, like everyone else seems to have done.
www.thetimes.co.uk
I saw the performer's glint return to Michael's eyes around the autumn of 2008 — the period when his life was back on track, his health was nearing peak fitness and he was physically preparing for the greatest comeback ever seen. He was, for the first time in a long while, just happy.
The guesswork about his health, especially after his death, warped the true picture. People point to a particular photograph, taken in July 2008, of my brother being pushed in a wheelchair, with captions like "too weak to stand, looking frail and in no condition to perform ..." That was exactly what Michael wanted the media to write. He was aware that everyone doubted he still had "it". So imagine if he bounced back, going from that state to this. Michael was doing a Willy Wonka, walking out of the chocolate factory to greet the crowds with a crippling limp as everyone gasps with shock — and then he stumbles ... tosses away the cane, does a somersault and everyone cheers. Gotcha. Because no comeback is truly a comeback until the odds seem impossible.
Michael's life had long been defined by indelible images that captured a myth: from oxygen chambers to surgical masks, from hotel balconies to "whiter" skin. This was him having the last laugh.
Michael was a master manipulator of image, knowing the paparazzi would like to think they'd "caught" him off guard. He wanted the ultimate vindication. The King of Pop turned Comeback King. And here's a fact to place alongside that wheelchair image: about two months later, he was engaged in brutal choreography training for a comeback tour that had not yet been revealed.
He started requesting CDs, just like old times. He was so obsessed about staying up-to-date that every week he was sent the Top Ten from the Billboard Hot 100 burnt on to one disc. His outlook was positive. His body was back in shape. His focus was the future.
After his This Is It concerts were done, he had two more tours up his sleeve: "back by popular demand" dates that no one knew about. I know what Michael said in March 2009: "When I say this is it, it really means 'this is it' ... this is the final curtain-call." That was his great tease: he was a master salesman, too, and if the world thought that London would be their last opportunity to see him perform, then they would rush to buy tickets.
I was out near Pasadena, the city at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, when a good friend — CNN host Larry King — called my wife's mobile phone to ask if we knew anything "about a TMZ report saying Michael has been being rushed to UCLA hospital". I wasn't immediately alarmed because it was hardly the first time the media had got excited about my brother being "rushed" to hospital. But then I called Mother and caught her hurrying out of the door at Hayvenhurst [the Jackson family home]. As soon as I heard her voice, I knew something was very wrong: she sounded fraught with anxiety. "Jermaine! I'm rushing down now. I'll call you when I get there! Leave now," she said.
At the hospital, a window looked into a room within a room. La Toya was already there, standing alone, leaning down towards Michael's face. He was lying on a trolley in a hospital gown.
I steadied myself, took a breath, and entered the side door to the right. I went over to the other side of Michael, reaching down to take his hand, rubbing his still-soft skin. I couldn't believe how skeletal he was. He seemed half the size he had been a month earlier. If a stranger had walked into the room, they would have assumed he had been ravaged by cancer or anorexia.
What's happened to you? I knew no amount of rigorous dancing could have left him in this state. I leant down and kissed him on the forehead, telling him I loved him. I found I couldn't pull away. I lifted one of his eyelids because I wanted to look into his eyes, "see" him one last time.
Look at me, Michael. Look at me. I rested my forehead against his and wept.
The autopsy report ruled that Michael had had a healthy heart and had died from "acute propofol intoxication". The media would go on to portray him falsely as a "junkie", trying to make the link with prescription-drug usage, but that wasn't the reason why his heart stopped: it was clear that the anaesthetic propofol was everywhere in his system.
Propofol is not a recreational drug and it was not prescription medicine. It is what people are given intravenously as an anaesthetic before major surgery, or doctors use it for sedation. This, I would find out, is what Michael relied on to be "knocked out" when he was desperate for sleep. According to the instructions it should be given only by a trained anaesthetist, and the patient's intake must be carefully monitored with the appropriate medical equipment in place.
Michael was usually beset by sleeping problems only on tour, so it was, to the best of my knowledge, a departure for him to be using this kind of sleep-inducer during rehearsals. It didn't surprise me that his insomnia was returning in the run-up to his London dates because of the unimaginable pressure to which he was subjected, most of it self-imposed. He was his own biggest rival in the relentless drive to be perfect in the great comeback he'd envisaged.
Pressure. It would become a theme in everything I went on to discover about the final days of his life.
By the start of June 2009, rehearsals were taking place at the Forum in Inglewood, California, and Michael was apparently still focused and businesslike. Everything was going wonderfully well.
But by mid-June Michael's health inexplicably started to deteriorate. It all seems to have begun when Michael missed rehearsals on June 13, 14 and 15. Even on the days when he did show up, there were occasions when he'd turn up at 8pm for a 2pm start, as if just getting out of the house was a struggle.
During the week that followed, further worrying signs stacked up. In the routine for Thriller, he turned left when he knew he had to turn right. That was odd in itself, but then he did it a second time. He also started repeating himself — a sentence or a phrase — like someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He struggled to finish one song and he sometimes needed a teleprompter for lyrics. Plus, he had to be helped up and down ramps and flights of stairs.
No one was giving Michael the kid-glove treatment. Instead, I know that he felt belittled on several occasions and he was also yelled at, as witnessed by people who were there. On one occasion, he deliberately spoke into his mike as he walked offstage: "I just want someone to be nice to me today ..." A voice from the floor yelled back: "If we could just have a coherent person here today!" "They wouldn't speak to me like that if Joseph [his father] was here," Michael muttered, off mike.
The thinner Michael became, the colder he got. He began shivering on stage; he was given a thick coat to wear.
Someone, without any authorisation from the promoter, AEG, placed a discreet call to a doctor whom Michael had consulted in the past. After the symptoms had been explained to him, the doctor said it sounded as if Michael was suffering from "toxic poisoning of the brain" and should get to a hospital. For reasons that remain maddening to me, he didn't go.
I have lain awake at night wondering what was making him so ill. Was his doctor giving him so much anaesthetic that it was slowly poisoning his system? Could my brother have known how much propofol was being injected into him? The more I hear about those final rehearsals, the clearer it seems that there was a focus on getting to London and hitting that target of 50 concert dates. Somewhere in the pressure that everyone felt, AEG viewed the King of Pop as a performing robot and lost sight of the human being.
AEG delegations were sent to Michael's home on June 18 and 20 to discuss his no-shows for rehearsals. He was left in no doubt that if he didn't step up and start delivering, they would not only pull the plug but he was in danger of "losing everything".
His contract with AEG stated that if he failed to perform he would be liable for all production costs and lost revenue, meaning that his assets, including his prized music catalogue, were collateral up for the taking.
On Saturday, June 20, the director Kenny Ortega visited Michael at home and one hour after he left, choreographer Travis Payne received a phone call from Kenny telling him to get to the house urgently. That same afternoon the musical director, Michael Bearden, made a bizarre announcement to dancers and crew on stage, telling them: "Everyone needs to pray for Michael and send him good wishes."
This was four days before Michael died. Why would he say such a thing? And why — if we're at the point of prayers — would the tour continue? Yet the show apparently had to go on.
Bizarrely, everything changed on the final two days of rehearsals, the 23rd and 24th. Michael suddenly showed up looking upbeat, sharp and reinvigorated. It was this version of my brother that the world saw during the This Is It movie; the temporary two-day truth for the box office, not the horrible truth of the preceding weeks.
That last night of his life, rehearsals ran late. There was a full dress rehearsal, which he carried out without a hitch, it seems, before he left at just after midnight on June 25.
When Michael got home he struggled to sleep, with his personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray (hired by AEG for the tour, at Michael's request) at his side. Within the next 12 hours, he would be dead. He was found on the left side of the bed, where Dr Murray says he tried to carry out CPR. On the floor there was a tube of toothpaste and a string of wooden beads. His laptop and a pair of glasses were on the bedside table. There was also a urine sample in the room. Next to the bed, a tan sofa was, apparently, Dr Murray's seat.
One fact that has been established from preliminary hearings is that Dr Murray used his iPhone a lot through the early hours of that fateful day. One call was to a woman he'd recently met, logged at 11.51am, some 15 minutes before my brother apparently stopped breathing.
She said she was talking to him when she realised that he wasn't listening any more but the line was still open and she heard "a commotion — I heard coughing and mumbling". She tried calling and texting him back, but received no reply.
We're finding it impossible to accept Michael's inexplicable decline and that one company didn't spot that something was seriously wrong.
As a family, we would like to know who else — if anyone — entered and left the house on the night of Michael's death, but although the LAPD are treating his death as homicide, its investigators decided to retain only the four minutes of CCTV footage showing Dr Murray's expected arrival. Unless the authorities surprise us, it seems that all other footage has been erased.
It is hard for us to understand why such crucial footage could be wiped like that. It makes us wonder if every stone has been turned in the LAPD's investigation: it has so far concentrated on one doctor, and one night.
I guess time will tell, but our only hope is that, ultimately, justice doesn't fail Michael, like everyone else seems to have done.
www.thetimes.co.uk
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we should ask Michael Bearden on his facebook if it's true
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It just doesn't seem likely.
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I find it hard to believe too
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I thought it was clear that Michael was fine in rehearsals since even Chernoff admited that unedited and raw footage showed that Michael was doing well, even on his bad days. I'm sure that if there had been any indication of Michael crawling up ramps and carried up stairs, Murray's defense team would have been all over it.
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I asked Michael Bearden on his FB page about it. Let's see if he replies...
JMie
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After these two excerpts it seems to me that Jermaine's book is much worse than LaToya's.
Re: Jermaine Writing Book On Life With MJ *Update Post 253, Book To Be Released In Sept*
Jermaine's answer to this TV programme:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n8_v85/ai_14866479/
Jermaine's answer to this TV programme:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n8_v85/ai_14866479/
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Re: Jermaine Writing Book On Life With MJ *Update Post 253, Book To Be Released In Sept*
Yeah..yeah...yeahhh typical Jackson move.
Sell the tabloid story overseas ..and go on an American show & come off like a saviour. Yet he never sued, nor requested a retraction. Deja vu..even back then.
We've seen it since June 25th 2009. The quotes weren't made up, they were given to the tabloids in exchange for big money.
Yeah..yeah...yeahhh typical Jackson move.
Sell the tabloid story overseas ..and go on an American show & come off like a saviour. Yet he never sued, nor requested a retraction. Deja vu..even back then.
We've seen it since June 25th 2009. The quotes weren't made up, they were given to the tabloids in exchange for big money.
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Re: Jermaine Writing Book On Life With MJ *Update Post 253, Book To Be Released In Sept*
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I just read the excerpt and I am again saddened.
My initial thoughts:
* AEG lawsuit
*What is it with LaToya and Jermaine believing that Michael had a craving for Joe?
* Michael Jackson was MICHAEL JACKSON and the STAR OF THE SHOW - who would disrespect him that way?
* Was TII only about 2 days of rehearsal (my memory is not the best)?
My initial thoughts:
* AEG lawsuit
*What is it with LaToya and Jermaine believing that Michael had a craving for Joe?
* Michael Jackson was MICHAEL JACKSON and the STAR OF THE SHOW - who would disrespect him that way?
* Was TII only about 2 days of rehearsal (my memory is not the best)?
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For Jermaine this is a turn around given he never once said Michael was stress. He always talked about what a professional Michael was and he just had some sleep problems. I guess he didn't want to call Toya a lair or he decided that even though AEG is innocent going by his previous words, he want the money from the suit. Although, he kind of shot himself in the foot when he also mentioned the autopsy and quote it as truth. Since the autopsy also says that Michael was healthy and not underweight and he now can't take it back
As for Joe, both Toya and Jermaine are big Joe supporters. Jermaine's defended Joe when he told a Tab what his mother killed Michael. He try to play it off by saying that the Tab took the quote out of context. He also all but call Michael a lair about abused. I wonder if he has the 'I hate so and so' notes like Toya.
Jermaine is full of crap about TII and he knows it. I doubt he has ever seen all the rehearsal footage since not even Murray's defense can use it. But, Jermaine, like Toya, seems to have a underline desire to help Murray because he doesn't fit into their scheme. They want there to be someone else to blame, with money, so they can sue them and get a big payday. That's the only way you can explain the fall guy crap and they are only going after Murray cause he's black.
Personally, I find it more annoying that Jermaine believes that Michael would hire people who would treat him like that and only leave the stage crying like girl. He has been in the business for 40 years and I doubt he would like people just tell him what to do and just sit there and take it and they cry to daddy. Just because they can't run a show doesn't mean Michael suddenly can't.
Oh, TII was more than two rehearsals. People say, however, that the 23 and 24th was when Michael was at his best. Which is funny because according to Jermaine and Toya, Michael should had been at his sicker at this time. But, this is Jackson Land they live in where reality doesn't reach.
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JerNOTverySmart, can go kick rocks as far as I'm concerned!
All of those PAST interviews are going to kick him in the butt. All of his contradictions are out there for all to see.
Michael was fine. No, Michael was not fine. Okay JerNOTverySmart, make up your mind!
Jermaine and LaToya, both, trying to make folks believe that Michael Jackson, THE MICHAEL JACKSON, was basically holed up in some corner CRYING FOR HIS DADDY, is just pathetic.
If Michael held his father in such high esteem, his father would be in charge of The Estate Of Michael Jackson and not the 2 men who are in charge. As we can see, not only is Joe Jackson not in charge, he's not even mentioned at all. LOL!
JerNOTverySmart, is just that, in my opinion.
All of those PAST interviews are going to kick him in the butt. All of his contradictions are out there for all to see.
Michael was fine. No, Michael was not fine. Okay JerNOTverySmart, make up your mind!
Jermaine and LaToya, both, trying to make folks believe that Michael Jackson, THE MICHAEL JACKSON, was basically holed up in some corner CRYING FOR HIS DADDY, is just pathetic.
If Michael held his father in such high esteem, his father would be in charge of The Estate Of Michael Jackson and not the 2 men who are in charge. As we can see, not only is Joe Jackson not in charge, he's not even mentioned at all. LOL!
JerNOTverySmart, is just that, in my opinion.
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After reading the second excerpt, I really wanted to ask whether Jermaine put a bug on MJ or he installed secrete camera in staple center everywhere and MJ's house. The way he wrote is just like tabloid that he knew every details of what happened before MJ died. Seriously? How can he even know that MJ crying for Joe off microphone? That's so weird. I really don't understand how can he said they only saw MJ once in May, 2009 on one hand but wrote so much details in the book on the other hand when he didn't even witness all these things. The way he wrote is like he is watching a people's life like movies. I feels like he is actually writing a novel.............
I didn't know actually caring about Michael and his kids and standing up for him against NO MATTER WHO was "hating." Maybe if this family was decent and stop milking this man's death, we wouldn't feel this way about them.
I'm just so sick and tired of them not acting like a normal family and just loving and remembering their lost ones.
I'm just so sick and tired of them not acting like a normal family and just loving and remembering their lost ones.
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In the second excerpt, Jermaine talks about Michael not being at rehearsals at 2 p.m. As someone who works in the performing arts, I can safely say there would have been times when everyone else would have needed to be there at 2 but Michael would not have been. It would depend on what they are rehearsing and what the plan for the day was. Nothing peculiar in that. It is one of the perks of being the star AND being in the industry for 40 years!
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Too bad JerNOTverySmart didn't get the memo from Murray's defense team.
Wherein after reviewing the multiple hours of UNRELEASED footage of the TII rehearsals, they said there was nothing in the footage that the defense could use.
Sorry JerNOTverySmart, you fail - AGAIN!
If he would have put this much energy into trying to rebuild his OWN SOLO CAREER years ago, he might have something to stand on today and a little dignity to go with it.
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Thank you. That's why Jermaine should not have even started talking about such things in the first place, in my opinion. Doesn't he care about how this looks to people who already do not like Michael? And doesn't he care about how upsetting this is to Michael's fans? Personally, I guess not.
welcome to another episode of "we don't have a consistent story"
- one minute you'll hear that Michael didn't want to do 50 concerts , only wanted to do 10 and that AEG conned him into other 40
- next minute Jermaine would tell you that not only Michael started working on these concerts in 2008 but also planned to do 2 world tours.
- one minute you'll read the claims of AEG hired Murray and pushed him on to Michael
- next minute Jermaine will tell you he was hired by Michael's request.
- one minute AEG worked him to death
- next minute Michael imposed the stress on to himself
the rest seems to be coming from Karen Faye honestly
and is "toxic poisoning of the brain" a real thing? I mean I'm no doctor but I never heard such thing. Would demerol or propofol poison the brain?
- one minute you'll hear that Michael didn't want to do 50 concerts , only wanted to do 10 and that AEG conned him into other 40
- next minute Jermaine would tell you that not only Michael started working on these concerts in 2008 but also planned to do 2 world tours.
- one minute you'll read the claims of AEG hired Murray and pushed him on to Michael
- next minute Jermaine will tell you he was hired by Michael's request.
- one minute AEG worked him to death
- next minute Michael imposed the stress on to himself
the rest seems to be coming from Karen Faye honestly
and is "toxic poisoning of the brain" a real thing? I mean I'm no doctor but I never heard such thing. Would demerol or propofol poison the brain?
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Jermaine opposed the tribute because of its timing. However when we look at what is being discussed about his book, it has more of an impact than the "tribute" - raising issues that will impact on the jury pool.
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The answer is NO. Isn't it obvious by now?
yeah Jermaine opposed the tribute because of it's timing; but not because of the trial. His main issue is 'not when I have a book coming out'
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Originally Posted by TheChosenOne
Jermaine opposed the tribute because of its timing. However when we look at what is being discussed about his book, it has more of an impact than the "tribute" - raising issues that will impact on the jury pool.
No,I believe who ever was quoted in that Guardian report..the only reason he turned down the tribute if because he wasn't getting as much money as he wanted.
This had nothing to do with the trial as these last few days have proven.