We'll have to agree to disagree then.
But imo what led up to MJ using drugs in the first place was because of his passed issues.Issues that he needed help for and needed to deal with.Perhaps MJ toward the end was in a certain amount of denial.
He dealt with those issues in spite of all the madness in his life, and you listed some of them, so if you're gonna talk about Jackson being in a certain amount of denial that he had a problem, try to tell a pressured being to sleep, which was what he was suffering from towards his life. Although towards the end of his life he wasn't addicted to medication (that's the word, not drugs), the autopsy established that, not to mention blood tests run by nurse Cheryll Lee in the February of 2009, just a few months before his ordeal with the concerts began. There were a lot of them, and he couldn't sleep, he was sleep deprived. Of right. Nobody cared to reduce the amount of concerts he had to make, AEG, nobody, ecstatic fans were all up on his back asking from him to perform. He was very much focused and concerned with every single detail regarding touring, but sleep-deprived and a doctor, instead of taking care of him while he prepped for his tour, killed him. He told fans he only wanted to do 10 shows. Who and what exactly was gonna make he sleep with all that madness? He tried everything to go to sleep, and nothing worked. This topic has been much discussed, and your saying that he was in denial and all that is exactly what his 'doctor' and his defense and the media are coming up with. He couldn't sleep and he knew it and he couldn't eat much precisely because of lack of sleep and working a lot. He wasn't a drug addict, although it would have been totally human for what he'd been through.
But to lay all of the blame at the feet of one person and one person only, is wrong in this instance. Alot of things happend in MJ's life that led up to June 25th.Joe Jackson abusing his kids, Childhood and not feeling loved, the pepsi accident in which he was badly burned, the 93 allegations, the 2004 allegations, 20 years of media rubbish, feeling misunderstood due to actually being misunderstood, these are all very heavy issues on their own.MJ had to deal with all of these.
Exactly. More than one person was responsible with slowly killing him all his life, that's not being denied, I've made posts regarding that in a thread related to AEG, and was instantly yelled at for what some deemed me as siding with Murray just because I said there were many involved and that Murray was paid to do what he did. But that's not the topic here.
It's about using Michael Jackson as an example of 'how a person can self destruct if they substitute materialistic things and not deal with their problems instead of seeking help,which can manifest itself into bad things and go horribly wrong.
He sought help, he even had his doctor call nurse Cheryll Lee complaining about feeling ill, and the doctor should have taken him to the hospital, which he didn't. He dealt with his problems the best he could, given that he was always surrounded by untrustworthy people and he couldn't trust anyone, but wanted to. These kind of portrayals are generalistic, applied to those celebrities who died of overdoses and what not, and Jackson's situation is different, as he died at the hands of another, a 'doctor' that he hired to help him go on tour. Pressuring concerts he wanted to postpone of, if not cancel from. He wouldn't have needed painkillers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety ones if it weren't for this pressuring tour, yet his doctor abused his 'power' by eventually giving them to him to death. He didn't have any choice, apparently, with all the people that surrounded him. If, say, many fans told him or wrote to him via banners, "Michael, you don't need to do these many concerts", instead of asking him to come to their city and tour, if he didn't have large webs of mafia people pressuring him to do these shows, if he weren't sued left and right, he could've slept better and he would have been alive today. Nobody helped him, many wanted his money and name, not firstly concerning over his person, so he died like a dog assisted by incompetence in the end. He had no one to completely trust in his proximity outside his children. Yet he still made it to 50. He had his flaws,certainly, but that is not what killed him. He didn't know who to trust, so that's confusion.
'Denial'...
But whatever, I've exhausted my take on this..
