Brooke Shields on Michael Jackson - from Rolling Stone

[Triana]

I always knew Michael was very sweet in this way. He really did have a pure and simple heart and he was lonely, misunderstood and wanted people in his life - a family - but it was difficult for him to have that with ANY semblance of normality because of who he was - going out was a huge production so he couldn't do that much as years went on. So bringing his world - and what he wanted in it to him - was the only way he could have that. And of course, liars, extortionists, and tabloids destroyed THAT for him too. . . Anyway, Brooke Shields explains it pretty well in this piece.

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He just felt so bad that there were so many little children in Romania in these orphanages, and he wanted to try to give them homes, and I really wanted to be able to do that with him, but it would have divided my life too much.

I hope when you write this, it doesn't sound freakish. What it was was a young man who kept reaching to try to find happiness. I think he wanted to take his resources and make a difference to other people in their lives, and he knew that I wanted to do that in the world, too, so he would reach out to someone like me and say, "How can we make a difference, it's easier to adopt a child if you're two people." He never said, formally, "Will you marry me," it was never that for me, he never was that definitive, but I think he was a guy who kept searching for happiness.

The problem is when you try to bring that out and in this society, it turns into a tabloid sentence, which is, "He wanted Brooke Shields to live with him and adopt babies," and it sounds ridiculous. And it never was that clear-cut. He found people he loved in his life and he didn't want to let go of them and he wanted them all to live together because he didn't want to go out into the outside world, which was so cruel and too much to handle, and it makes sense. I've seen many people in this position where they try to bring people into their circle, because going out of their life, just walking outside on the street is too much for them. That's why he created Neverland, because he wanted to bring people in so that he didn't have to leave and he could feel their happiness and he could somehow regain something that he felt he'd lost. So of course I was going to be one of the people he was going to call.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29126877/michael_jackson_remembered_brooke_shields_on_king_of_pops_pure_soul

[Iggo]

1. "Brooke Shields on Michael Jackson"

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[Yehonala]

2. He Fell In

He fell into such a destructive cycle. Like a lot of badly abused people he didn't feel he would be able to be understood and therefore didn't get help and let things happen and more damage. Then he wasn't able to believe in himself enough to get help so the spiral just got worse. At the last of his days he was going to reach out again, but died. He only knew how to reach out through his music, which only made him a person worth only how well he did on stage, making him more of an object.

Off stage his demons took over and that's how he became a figure of such ridicule, which only isolated him further.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Thank you, Sigmund Freud ...

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