I applaud you all for being so understanding. I can't. Personally, I think she's just given even more ammunition to help Murray's case. She basically told the world that Michael Jackson got whatever he wanted - it's was his way or the highway. Many, many references to drug use but barely any reasons given as to why he was taking them and who was prescribing them.
If Katherine's interview goes down the same route, I reckon you can kiss good bye to any hope of Murray serving time.
They should all have just kept their mouths shut.
Of COURSE. And, if there is any doubt now about Oprah's motivations, watch how
she was the one who directed the conversation back, and back, to the topic of DRUG-USE. I shudder at what she will ask Katherine, and the children!
This was LMP's opportunity to make things right, and to defend Michael in death as she never did in life. Surely she KNOWS there is a criminal trial coming up for Murray? In that trial, the defense will try to paint a portrait of Michael as a drug-addled junkie. It's a weak defense, but
attacking his character is all they've got. She KNOWS Michael was murdered, but yet
she threw him under the bus. Oprah continuously guided the topic back to drug use. LMP didn't say she ever SAW Michael taking drugs, but yet that is the image she portrays of him. Why she found that necessary at this critical time, I have NO idea. There are time in life when we must make pivotal choices, and this was one of those. Now, her choices are part of her own history.
With a trial coming up, if any still doubt that she threw him under the bus, consider that she SAID
her father's death and Michael's were IDENTICAL! No, they were not! She really did say that, for an audience of millions. She strongly implied, if not said, that
his 1995 collapse was due to a drug-overdose. It was NOT, and his doctor at the time said it was not, at a tv press-conference. She also failed to speak out strongly that he would never be capable of harming a child. IMHO, she's done a lot of damage, now. For those who do not know Michael as his fans do, that's all they will know of his private-life. That Michael overdosed just like Elvis (he did NOT), and that
his own wife wasn't certain if he ever molested children. It's so very, very sad, that she felt the need to speak out at all, much less BEFORE Murray's trial!
She had an opportunity to defend him, and she failed at that. Michael was a gentleman, and
never talked in public about their marriage. The very best thing LMP could have done at this time to respect his memory, was to say absolutely NOTHING.
He reached out to her in 2005, during the worst period of his life, asked her if she
loved him, and she told him she was INDIFFERENT? I will never forgive her for making Michael cry, at such a devastating time. There are different kinds of love, including love-in-friendship. Surely she could have done that much for him?
She said that Michael TOLD her he thought
there were people out to kill him for the ATV catalog and for his estate. And then she refused to name names? She needs to step right up and do so. Michael isn't here to speak for himself, but she should now relate to someone, what Michael thought about his life being at risk. She could have done so much good for his legacy and for his children's futures, and she chose otherwise.
Michael, wherever you are, I'm just so very sorry. You deserved better. . .
They were a beautiful couple in my eyes. They gave each other a lot.
