“He was genuinely mentally ill”: Elton John Revealed Michael Jackson Preferred to Be With Children, Despised Adult Company Due to Severe Medication
After approximately 50 years of superstardom, legendary pop artist Sir Elton John is now more open than ever. He has made some surprising admissions in his autobiography Me: Elton John. One of them is his acquaintance with Michael Jackson, who he believes to have been “mentally ill.” Jackson, whom John had met for the first time when the late “King of Pop” was 14 years old, ended up going to the party that John had planned.
Elton John’s Shocking Revelation About Michael Jackson
The Rocket Man singer wrote that Michael Jackson was “the most adorable kid you could imagine” but later began sequestering himself away from reality.
“I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14… He was just the most adorable kid you could imagine. But at some point in the intervening years, he started sequestering himself away from the world, and away from reality the way Elvis Presley did,” he wrote.
Elton John speculated in a piece that Jackson’s dependence on prescription medicines was the cause of his character transformation.
Every time I met him in his later years, I left with the impression that the poor guy had completely lost his wits. “God knows what was going on in his head, and God knows what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of,” Elton said.
“I don’t mean that in a lighthearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.”
Jackson died on June 25, 2009, and his legacy has suffered after the Leaving Neverland documentary on HBO reignited allegations that the pop star molested children.
Michael Jackson Loved Children’s Company More Than Adults
The pair had a distressing lunch together in the 1990s, at which Jackson’s makeup appeared to have been performed by a “maniac,” and his nose was “covered with a sticking plaster.” Sir Elton also recalled the lunch. John added, “The poor guy looked dreadful, terribly fragile, and unwell.”
The situation became even stranger when Jackson got up from the table “without a word” and was seen “quietly playing games” with his housekeeper’s 11-year-old son in their cottage.
“For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with the adult company at all,” John wrote.
After the highly publicized docuseries Leaving Neverland, which reviewed the s*x abuse allegations made against the singer, was released in 2019, Elton’s comments about Jackson’s supposed mental health were made.
Jackson wasn’t the only well-known figure Elton mentioned in the memoir’s opening; he also mentioned the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II.
In his letter, he said, “I know the Queen’s public image isn’t exactly one of wild frivolity, but… in private she could be funny.”
Me, the 350-page authorized biography of Elton John, was published on October 15, 2019, by Macmillan. The memoir is accessible anywhere you prefer buying books.
Source: Far Out
