Christ, this is horrific. It makes me think that all the dancers,
Kenny Ortega, everyone feeding us the twitter updates, 'Wow, Mike is on top form' etc etc are clearly ignoring one massive factor - he is unhealthily thin! There's no way they didn't notice - I mean, they were all there the same day as these fans who saw him in the tight white outfit. What they do have in common is that they are all working for AEG, which makes me think they had some kind of clause in the confidentiality agreement that we know the dancers signed and are still bound by - DON'T MENTION MICHAEL'S WEIGHT! Like the pink elephant in the room that no-one is talking about. I'm not saying he couldn't dance or perform, maybe he still could and maybe it WAS still amazing, but they clearly knew him being drastically underweight was going to pose a big problem for a 50-date tour.
I read an interview the other day with the director who produced the Peter Pan musical, I forget his name but someone posted it on here, and he saw Mike immediately after one of the Bad shows. He said
he was limp and lifeless and could barely move. He needed to sleep 12 hours to recover. We know he lost 10lbs during the Bad tour and supposedly lost 4 lbs a night just in sweat etc. How was this ever going to work for a 50 year old man who is already drastically underweight?! Why did he not have a chef and a dietician and a doctor monitoring his food intake and making him drink protein shakes etc?!!
I'm not going to get into the whole drug issue but we know they suppress your appetite, make food taste funny and cause nausea, so maybe there was something going badly wrong on that front.
This is so unbelievably tragic - I feel sorry for those around him that tried to help if they couldn't and despise those that did nothing. This should not have been allowed to happen!