Thank you so much for this footage!
I really regret now flying over...I really was considering flying over to London, but I was 17 at that time and I had school, so my parents wouldn't allow me to fly over...
I didn't really mind it, because I somehow already knew he just wouldn't announce some ''new album'', I could feel he was going to announce concerts, so I was like ''whatever, I am going to see him anyway! I can skip this.''.
Now whenever I think of the press conference I just want to break down crying, because the concerts announcements would have been such a good chance to see him up close, and I just feel like a complete idiot to let that chance slip away from me.
Geez, I still remember the press conference like it was yesterday. I skipped my last lessons, so I would be home on time to catch every single detail of it lol, but Mike came too late. I sat there behind my computer for 3 hours, too afraid to even leave it to go to the toilet. I remember sitting behind my computer somewhere around 15.30 and leaving it somewhere around 19.00 lol. Once that little trailer my internet crashed and I ran like I never ran before to my television searching for BBC lol.
I even cried my freaking eye balls out when Michael came on that stage thinking like ''FINALLY, this is it! FINALLY!!!!!''. After the conference was finished I immediately turned on every radio channel to see if they were reporting the concerts in the news section..and they were!
I was so excited...
You know, I am graduating from high school this year and my plan would always be to follow Michael around for year after graduation. I would be old enough and be able to finance it myself instead of begging my parents for money. I always imagined how it would be like seeing him..
I just want to slap myself in the face right now, for letting all those chances to see him slip away…
I just feel so angry, sad and frustrated about not meeting him, arrrgghhh!
I’m always so thankfull when fans like you share the footage they have (especially when it’s more recent’), just for a few minutes it makes me forget that I never met him and makes me feel like I’m actually there in person. Screaming his name, running after his car, just trying to make him notice you…thanks for doing that for me.