Moogisland, you better control your frustrations. Who needs to wake up is you. It could be anyone, not just Michael Jackson, that are entitled to their privacy. He did not need to tell anything he didn't want to you or anyone. He always strived to be a good example for people, and he made a difference in the lives of many, in spite of his many pains. If you heard of this word before, that is. Nobody has a right to delve into somebody else's medical problems that are derived from life's problems and make them public, go on TV and put them on blast and pretend like they know them, even though they don't really. It's unacceptable to do that to a dead person who happened to be family.
Jackson did not proclaim to be an angel or anything, and he said so himself. I wonder if you could do or endure the things that Jackson did in his life and with that much dignity. He was a way way much better person than you, that is for sure, you just pretend to get real, putting people here on blast, and your attitude proves just that, including that you're a bit messed up yourself. Before calling out on others, look in the mirror and get to know yourself, for obviously you've serious knowledge gaps when it comes to others.
^^ This.
I think there are fans who think he was an angel, but I don't think most of us think that. But he wasn't more messed up than most people are, despite of his life being much harder than the average person's.
So he watched porn? So what? It's not like the vast majority of men in this world don't do that. So he drank alcohol? So what? It's not like many people in this world don't do that. (In fact, a certain amount of alcohol is healthy, according to doctors.) I never had the impression he was an alcoholist, or something - and there's no proof of something like that.
As for bleaching his skin. The media always accused him of bleaching his skin because "he didn't want to be black". That's a big fat lie and we all know that. We also know that he used creams to even out his skin and make blotches disappear. We know that's one form of treatment for vitiligo patients. I thought when Michael said he didn't bleach his skin it's obvious he meant: he didn't bleach his skin to want to be white (like the media accused him of doing). That's what he meant and I thought it's obvious by now, at least for fans. Apparently it isn't. Yes, he could have been more accurate about it, but 1) he is not owing the public an explanation about everything he does, 2) it's something he was obviously embarassed to talk about, so he just wanted to quickly get over such questions in interviews, 3) like Macaulay Culkin told Larry King, Michael wasn't great at expressing himself accurately in interviews and that brought a lot of misunderstanding of him. You can clearly see that in Bashir's interview that if there were subjects those embarassed him he didn't give accurate answers, just wanted to quickly get over it - even if he could have done a lot to defend himself with a more accurate and elaborate answer. One thing that jumps to my mind is when Bashir asked him if he didn't go to jail in 1993 because he paid Chandler off, and Michael answers with a "yes". But it's not true! The settlement was only to settle the civil trial, it had nothing to do with the criminal trial! Michael could have and should have elaborated this, instead he gave an answer which wasn't true and even made him look guilty. Even if the answer he gave wasn't true, he did not "lie". Noone lies to make himself look guilty. He just wasn't a good communicator when he wasn't in his comfort zone and that's it. Same about what he said about skin bleach.
He didn't lie about that he just didn't elaborate on it. He told a long time ago that he had vitiligo and that's why his skin is turning white. And it's true, since if he hadn't had vitiligo he wouldn't have to use creams to whiten his splotches.
What else do we want? That people didn't believe him is not Michael's fault.
According to Michael's long-time friend David Nordahl the media KNEW very well that Michael had vitiligo and STILL chose to write BS about him bleaching his skin to turn into a white person. They KNEW and still wrote BS. So what Michael could do about it?
I don't think anything of the above makes him a "messed up" person. If so, then 90% of this world are made of messed up people.