Watched this documentary on Ist April at STAR WORLD, produced by ITV (UK) & The interviews were conducted by British journalist Martin Bashir, who is well known for a 1995 interview in which Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles. About Martin Bashir Martin Bashir is an Award winning journalist currently working for ITV, Britain’s most popular television network. He spent eight months with reclusive pop star Michael Jackson for this hotly anticipated documentary. This British journalist who had nearly unfettered access to the reclusive pop star over an eight-month period.
The documentary starts with MJ talking to MB (Martin Bashir) about his success, his past etc. on the Tree! (MJ claims to be his favourite past time) & make MB to be with him!! MJ lives in NEVERLAND a 3, 000-acre ranch, three hours north of Los Angeles & when the camera rolls in NEVERLAND by god!! What a site, I strongly believe that it is a paradise for Kids. Magnificent Merry-go-rounds, Toy Train etc. you name it he had it, inside the rooms, all roofing & interior designing are heavily inspired by Peter Pen, a folk legend & MJ considers himself Peter Pen!!! Now the INTERVIEW MB starts asking question about his family, his obsession for his Face especially Nose, his sex life, his childhood etc. MJ narrates his horrible childhood days of JAKSON –5, how his father (Joe) beats them, when they commit some mistakes & he (Joe) nagged him about his Fat Nose, he was so scared to his father that every time he sees him he Puked!! & Whenever he calls Joe, they were not allowed to call him DADDY (what a pity on the kids), probably these are the reasons why MJ forced to change his face especially his nose.
When enquire about his Sex life he quite shyly told the story (not the Juicy one), how he had sex with women etc. The pop star’s lifestyle has been the subject of controversy and rumor since 1993, when Jackson reportedly reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with a 14-year-old boy who had accused him of sexual molestation. The superstar maintained his own innocence throughout the interview saying that he was shocked when he came to know the allegations. MJ also allowed the British crew to film him with his own three children: 5-year-old Prince Michael I (who is known as Prince), 4-year-old Paris, and his infant son Prince Michael II, the baby he notoriously dangled from the balcony of a Berlin hotel in November. All three children’s faces were covered during filming, the two older ones in feathered masks, and the baby in a green veil. Jackson told MB that he never lets his children be seen in public without masks, in order to conceal their identity. Prince and Paris were born during Jackson’s three-year marriage to his dermatology nurse, Debbie Rowe. MJ in Las Vegas for shopping & it was a splendid display of wealth along with an eye for craftsmanship & MJ appreciates too. Now the KIDS MJ told one place that when Paris was born, Jackson said he was so anxious to bring her home from the hospital that after cutting the umbilical cord, he brought the newborn home before hospital staff had cleaned the afterbirth. ’’I hate to say this, I snatched her and just went home with all the placenta and everything all over her, ’’ Jackson said. ’’Got her in a towel and ran.’’ Both Rowe, the mother, and doctors were fine with what he did, Jackson said. He got an obsession for kids & this is evident form the incident I mentioned above & when media criticized MJ for SLEEPOVERS (small kids sleeping in his Bedroom in the night) MJ defends himself quite brilliantly along with his 12-year-old friend Gavin who earlier diagnosed a terminal illness. Gavin said Jackson’s friendship and support helped him beat cancer, and that the 44-year-old pop star is a child at heart.
When MB confronted MJ about his behavior on this MJ said he doesn’t seem to understand why people question his behavior. For his part, Jackson said anyone who would criticize the sleepovers as inappropriate is missing the point of his loving gesture, and deserves pity. ’’The problem is, he appears to exist in a world he has constructed himself, ’’ I guess people who raised fingers on MJ about his behavior got an answer. I do find MB somewhere sometimes pushing him very hard to confess something or the other in order to make his Programme more Juicy & MJ candidly open himself to us via this Programme. I find MJ a deeply emotional person who cares for this world, care for Children & he himself a kid clad in the body & mind of a 44 year old man, he wants to play with his kid & fellow friends as all normal human beings. MJ confess that he has not put his kids in the school just because somebody in his name might hurt them mentally or emotionally & of course the Paparazzi, he scared of them too, same like you & I for our kids. I can go on & on, in order to cut it down that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this documentary & all the fake claims, myths have been shattered.
MAY GOD BLESS MJ & HIS FAMILY? OM SHANTI. BHATT