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Tito Jackson: We tried to intervene for Michael

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Meanwhile, in another room Jackson's brother Tito and less well known sister Rebbie sit quietly. In the documentary, Tito says: "To have to carry your brother to his grave… a major part of you dies with that."

More than two years on from Jackson's death, aged 50, they look as if they are still in mourning. They describe the Michael they remember – the loving brother, the joker who would whisper into Rebbie's ear that a cockroach was climbing up her leg as she was singing live.

Rebbie says towards the end of his life it felt as if Michael was beyond their help. "It was very difficult at times. It's important when someone is in that space to be able to have hands on to some extent because you have people around you who are yes yes yes people."

She talks about the trial of Dr Conrad Murray, which is reaching its conclusion, and the need for justice. "The entertainment is one thing, but him being our brother is another thing."
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missred07 said:
Oh God! Give me a break. This is hard enough to read the news. It's painful to actually watch the video. Seeing is believing. I am so done with this family. I just hoped that PPB won't be brainwashed to think their father is an addict. The only reason I can think of J family's behavior is that they can't believe MJ didn't want to see them so they kept blaming others. Just like Jermaine's ex girls friend Magaret Maldanado said. It's always other people's faults when something happened in this family.
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The bolded would be the worse.:boohoo And it may happen, Michael's not here to explain things to them, they probably will not think that their family would lie or be misinformed. At least they have one relative, Jermaine, who has publicly said that the label addict shouldn't be used to describe Michael.
 
Rebbie deserves to be known as a nobody, a woman in her sixty's who hasn't achieved ish in her life professionally, despite of the biggest star in the world producing songs for her. The ultimate slap onto Rebbie's old wrinkled face. Thanks heaven that she will never ever see Michael again, contrary to her believe she won't make it.
 
Maureen is an evil old woman that's for sure.
 
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I thought Tito was okay but now? I only support Michael and wish his kids well. The other Jacksons get no support from me. They have no respect for Michael at all. They set a horrible example.
 
goldiee said:
Is there a smiley that turns its head around like the Exorcist? I'm at work and can't watch a video now.

She never drove her car through his gates, that was Randy. And that wasn't about an intervention, he and Michael fell out over money, he was trying to talk to Michael.

What in hell is wrong with these people?
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They are sick, greedy and selfish..
 
What were they intervining though? They could hardly ever see him. So how can they jump to the conclusion he was an addict because of it? They didn't even know he had a problem in the early 90's until MJ said so himself. Just ask Jermaine. Which says a lot. so did they just go with that everytime they couldn't see him? That it just must be drugs? I just don't get it. And how f-ed up Rebbie ramped his gates too with her car. Crazy!

Someone needs to tell them what a drug intervention actually means because they never truly had one with Michael. Their was never a time where they had a specialist with MJ and the whole family there sitin and talking about what they feel about him and how they all want to help him. They never actually got to that point because they themselves said they were convinced he was fine when they did finally talk to him and was asured he was fine. So their was no actual intervention then. But, their was alot of harrassing and breakin into private property by them that's for sure.
 
Personally, I don't want to support the family anymore because of this. And it makes me very sad because I liked most of them for nearly my entire life. For them to spend all those years publicly supporting Michael while he was here and then suddenly trashing him after his death is like a hard smack in the face for me. I know Michael wasn't perfect. But seriously, I'm getting really tired of the constant stream of negativity coming from his family, especially since they were falling all over themselves to deny media reports that he was having serious drug problems when he was still alive. So I don't want to hear anything now that he's gone. During Murray's trial, the family was so quick to rightfully say that Murray is responsible for Michael's death because he administered the things that killed Michael. But then the family contradicts that statement by saying that " Michael was an addict and (blah blah blah) ". It seems to me sometimes that they are trying to get in good with Michael's haters to get themselves back in the spotlight. And to even think that just makes me sick. I don't understand them at all. And I am very disgusted. This is truely discouraging considering that I looked up to these people for years and years. I know they are human. But I thought they were better than this. For them to be talking about Michael like he deserves nothing better than to be dumped on all the time is a real let-down for me. This is just my opinion.
 
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calling Michael Jackson a drug addict is the new 'it thing' to do. Thanks to his family who never fail promote this new name of Michael, 6 years ago you'd call him a ch.ild mol.ester and now you can call him a drug addict, how nice.
 
I was only able to watch that clip once. I found it very sad. Surprisingly not because of the "drug addiction" topic. To make my point, watch a clip of Tito talking about music or playing the guitar and compare it to his body language here. He's blinking repeatedly and he can't look straight into the camera as he's saying this stuff. There is just something about the aura many of them give off that I can't relate to as a sibling. They speak of their brother as an entity as other worldly, disconnected from them. Its a shame reporters don't pursue their questions. For example, where police called after the fight with Tito and the guards? Who broke up the fight? What happened after Rebbie drove her car through the gate, did she just drive away? Tito has said that he's never seen his brother under the influence, then why does he believe he needed an intervention? If Michael shut out everyone that "cared" about him, who told them Michael was abusing drugs?Also, they never mention Michael's children and their well being in all this. The most honest, sincere concern I've seen concerning Michael's well being is Kenny Ortega's email read in court. I can't imagine what other products and revelations the Jackson's will come up with once the media attention fades.
 
This was obviously a paid interview with a British tabloid. That's how the Jacksons make money these days.

In the end I think the fans should just move on.
 
ExoticPrincess said:
You gotta wonder why Janet's, LaToya, Rebbie and Randy's signatures were not affixed to that letter? are'nt they apart of the Jackson family too? never any unity with them clearly.
I say, if you can put Jane Velez-Mitchell and others in the media on blast, you should be able to do it to your own family when they are issuing inaccuracies in the media.
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Thats what i was thinking! why wasnt janet, latoya, rebbie & randy 's signatures in it? its all to crazy aye.
 
I watched that video and all I can say is that there will be NOTHING that the Jacksons do from now on that will surprise me as it relates to Michael, aboslutley NOTHING! I can't stand them, I really can't!

That video of Rebbie & Tito is so disgusting. Here Tito is recounting how the family tried to intervene towards MJ and Rebbie is smiling & then when she recounts that she drove her car through the gate at one time to see MJ, she laughs. Then she nonchalantly sips from her smoothie like she just recounted an endearing story. Also, the way she matter of factly sayd, "Mmm Hmmm", quickly over and over again while tito speaks in enraging. This is supposed to be a lamentation at what happened to your brother that you claim to love so much. I understand how people grieve in different ways, but Rebbie seems totally disconnected from the story. Even when Janet was smiling, she still had a sadness behind her eyes, a regret. Rebbie has joy or at least indifference.

Ugh, let me get out of here.
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Your post is 100% on point! Rebbie sickens my stomach with her behaviour, like this is some game to her. When a sibling has to try to ram their car to get to see the other sibling, that tells me so much more than Tito and Rebbie would have us believe. Did anyone of them stop and think that Michael just did'nt want anything to do with them? he probably was just tired of being hounded by them.
 
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I sent out a tweet I hope other do the same - I want them exposed
Im so angry :mat: with the Jackson's for selling Michael down the river to promote their documentary, tributes and AEG civil suite


@JermJackson5 Tell @TitoJackson5 and Reebie its time for these unfair & hurtful rumors, for profit, to end http://bit.ly/s4ssn9
 
goldiee said:
Is there a smiley that turns its head around like the Exorcist? I'm at work and can't watch a video now.She never drove her car through his gates, that was Randy. And that wasn't about an intervention, he and Michael fell out over money, he was trying to talk to Michael.What in hell is wrong with these people?
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yeah that was randy. the fools cant get their lies straight
 
I too just had to send both Tito and Jermaine a couple tweets, they have gone too far now.
 
Did they ever see Michael high or out of it? I don't get this when they never saw him. No one ever questions them how they know, what they saw or anything. The media want Michaelto be an addict and the family gives them what they want. Once this trial is over I don't want to hear from them anymore.
 
Right they claim they hadn't seen MJ, so how the hell would they know anything? if Grace and company was telling them, then they should've helped him.. Talking about it now and he's dead, doesn't do MJ any good, so they need to shut up.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/05/michael-jackson-brother-tito-family

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Michael had this ritual every time we said goodbye," recalls Tito Jackson, from beneath his trademark bowler hat. "All of us brothers would hug and tell each other we loved each other, but Michael's favourite thing was to say, 'I love you more' and that night was no different."

The night in question, at a restaurant in the Jackson family's adopted city of Los Angeles, was the 60th wedding anniversary of Joseph Jackson and his wife, Katherine. "The entire family was there," says Tito. "We just talked and took pictures and shared ideas and caught up with what we'd all been doing. It was a very happy night. Michael was full of life and full of spirit, and he was just getting ready to start enjoying his life again.

"He was going to buy another place, as he was sick of Neverland. He wanted to start doing movies and just take it easy and be with his children."

The following month, on 25 June 2009, Michael Jackson had a heart attack in bed at his mansion in LA. After his death, an autopsy ruled that the sedative Lorazepam and the powerful anaesthetic Propofol found in the 50-year-old performer's blood were primarily responsible for Jackson's premature death. On 8 February 2010, his doctor Conrad Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

At the time of writing, the resulting trial was nearing its conclusion, but whatever the outcome, the process hasn't produced emotional closure for Jackson's relatives.

"I don't think there will ever be closure for our family," admits Tito, who is in London this week for the world premiere of a documentary on Jackson, The Life of an Icon. It has been produced by David Gest, concert promoter and longstanding friend of the Jackson family.

"I'm not a doctor but whether he knew better or Michael knew better he shouldn't have been doing that. He's a doctor. He's in charge. He's taken an oath and at that time he should have been doing what he needed to do to get my brother straight, not contributing to the situation.

"The world has lost a great man, but for our family it has nothing to do with music. To lose your brother, someone that you've known all your life and loved all your life and to know what happened to him …" Tito trails off.

Regardless of his legal culpability, for Tito at least, Conrad Murray represents a type of person who began to contaminate his brother's life as his popularity peaked in 1982 with the release of the album Thriller.

"I thought he would be able to handle it," says Tito, of the pernicious celebrity that accompanied Michael's success. "And to start with he did handle it very well, but he was put in a position that no one's been put in, and the problems came when a whole lot of other people got involved more and his family got involved less. That's when the trouble started."

The film suggests that the second-degree burns Michael suffered to his scalp on the set of a Pepsi commercial on 27 January 1984, when faulty pyrotechnics accidentally set his hair alight, were pivotal in his physical and psychological deterioration.

The incident, and resulting rhinoplasty, triggered a spiralling addiction to painkillers and plastic surgery.

By the time 13-year-old Jordan Chandler went public with accusations of sexual abuse – eventually settled out of court – against Jackson in 1993, stories of sleeping in an oxygen chamber, adopting chimpanzee companions and wild financial excesses had already corroded his reputation. Despite his acquittal from further child sex abuse charges in 2005, Jackson never regained the effervescent verve that had propelled him to such stratospheric musical heights in the late 70s and early 80s.

"All of that had something to do with where he was with his career, his life, the whole thing," agrees Tito.

"Divide and conquer," he continues, "that's what happened to Michael. Purely in the interests of financial greed, people in the business – and we're talking lawyers, managers, all kinds of people – wanted to divide him from his brothers.

"Michael's problem, just like his mother, is that he trusted people too much. He really did. He trusted too much and was taken advantage of.

"We tried to reach him but the people round him made it very difficult. When he got into trouble a few times they all ran – and when he was exonerated they all came back."

Tito's exasperation is palpable and his measured baritone bristles: "Am I still angry about it? I'm fucking furious. It makes me feel like shit how people wanted to use him. As a family we did try to help him but although Michael knew who these people were, and tried to keep them at arm's length, he didn't see everything because he was too close to it. I could see that these people were there for the wrong reasons, but I couldn't run Michael's life for him. But if I'd known then how tragically this journey would end, I wouldn't have taken it.

"I'd give it all up to have my brother here with me now. I'd do anything to have my brother with me."

One of nine Jackson children, Tito was born five years before Michael on 15 October 1953 and remembers his brother as a child: "He was always different. He was the little one that always used to suck his finger. He sucked it so much I thought he was going to have buck teeth, but his personality was different too. He was like a grown man in a little man's body. My brothers and I, we'd go to a city and were more interested in seeing the stadium where the New York Giants played – Michael would want to meet the politicians or see the local history. He was always a heavy reader and always interested in other countries' cultures."

As the family's musical talent blossomed, marshalled militarily by their steel-worker father, Joseph, so did the brothers' more playful side. "We laughed to keep our sanity and Marlon and Michael, my two little diddy brothers, when they were nine or 10, used to love to go to New York and fill balloons with water then drop them on people from above. We were just normal boys having fun."

Normality for the Jackson brothers who were to become the all-conquering Jackson 5 – Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael – entailed four hours of after-school rehearsals, a 90-minute round trip to an evening gig, homework, then eventually bed between 2am and 4am.

The schedule was relentless and in 1993, speaking to Oprah Winfrey, Michael admitted that he was physically and emotionally abused by his father during rehearsals and that he would often vomit at the sight of his father.

The public picture of Joseph as a bullying tyrant is not one Tito accepts. "To pull off what he pulled off, how he pulled it off, where he comes from, where his family was born from, I think my father is one of the greatest men that ever lived."

Tito strongly denies accusations that Joseph's authoritarian regime contributed to Michael's emotional acquiescence and eventual retreat from conventional adult life. "I'm pretty sure that everybody at some time in their life has a few words with their pop, but the difference between the Jackson family and other families is that it gets written about. The relationship we've got with our father is not different at all."

After Michael's death, his mother Katherine, now 81, became the legal guardian of his son Prince, 14, and daughter Paris, 13, from his second marriage to former nurse Debbie Rowe, and nine-year-old Blanket, conceived via artificial insemination by a still anonymous surrogate mother.

"My mother is still a very strong lady," says Tito, "so they're in good hands. If you've been watching the court case you can see she's got her wits about her. We're there every day, and they have a lot of cousins the same age to hang out with so it helps them to know their family is around them."

Inevitably, Michael's death has also brought the rest of the family closer together. "We've always been tight but we're tighter than ever now. We're closer than people could ever imagine, but the hole that Michael has left will never be filled.

"Everyone has their perception of who my brother was and he was just a person that loved life, loved seeing people happy and loved making a difference through his music. It's not for me to say how much of a difference he made, but I don't think I could have asked for a better brother."

• Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon is out on DVD
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http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/index...erish-memories&catid=85:latest-news&Itemid=82

(2-11-2011) Prince, Paris and Blanket talk about their Dad every day, Michael's sister says.

"Every day, all the time when I'm around them, they say, 'Dad used to do this, Dad used to say it like that.' You hear it all the time," Rebbie Jackson said.

Rebbie also said the children are aware of the current trial going on against Dr. Conrad Murray and that they are coping fairly well with it.

"I've been around them and seen how they are aware of it. They're dealing with it OK from what I've seen, as best can be expected," she said.

Rebbie and her brother Tito are in London to promote the release of the David Gest documentary, Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon.

Tito Jackson said he misses a lot about their brother.

"Just being around him, listening to music, having fun, family days. Just being a family, being my brother," he said.

Tito also expressed how proud he is of his brother, saying, "I just want people to remember the loving person he was, more than the music. How he cared. He was one of the few people that I know that I can put up in the category of some of the greats such as Dr. [Martin Luther] King. He changed the world. He did it through his music... that was his thing. Dr. King did it through speech. Michael did make a difference, and he's still making a difference today."

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passy001 said:
And people wonder why the Jacksons are disliked so strongly and more importantly why MJ left them out of his will. Their PR is always a nightmare. Give them some cash and they'll spew all sort of nonsense about MJ. That's how utterly corrupted and immoral they are. It'll only get worse over time since they're broke and jobless. By the way, we all know what those "interventions" were about. they were putting pressure on MJ to resurrect their dead careers, with Joe and KJ leading the pack.

Someone on this forum said once that MJ was born in the wrong family. Sadly I am slowly leaning towards the same thought.
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You can count me as one of the ones that finally put the Jackson Kool-aid down, because no matter how much I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, they've always showed their true colors when it comes to Mike and it isn't pretty. It's just hard for me to grasp how your own family can be your worst enemy. Mike knew what his family was about better than most and seeing that he didn't trust them with his estate, with his money speaks volumes. Too bad he trusted them with his CHILDREN, which will be their new meal tickets.

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And people wonder why the Jacksons are disliked so strongly and more importantly why MJ left them out of his will. Their PR is always a nightmare. Give them some cash and they'll spew all sort of nonsense about MJ. That's how utterly corrupted and immoral they are. It'll only get worse over time since they're broke and jobless. By the way, we all know what those "interventions" were about. they were putting pressure on MJ to resurrect their dead careers, with Joe and KJ leading the pack.
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Passy you are so right! Joe and Katherine was leading the pack.. They were with MJ together at the hotel in May 2009 with Randy Phillips talking about that ALLGOOD Concert.. At that time were either of them concerned about MJ's health or mental state? They were with MJ one month before he died and Katherine had seen MJ a week before Murray killed him. Did she not notice anything? This whole family is such a disgrace. I used to love that family believe it or not, but they only care about themselves and their bottom line and they used and abused MJ just as much as anyone else.
 
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