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Michael Jackson: I HAVE ANTRHAX?? Very Sick; Being Tested Now (my title)
Newsoftheworld via Drudge ^ | 11/04/2001

Posted on 11/04/2001 11:46:32 AM PST by VA Advogado


POP legend Michael Jackson has given the most amazing and astonishing interview of his life to the News of the World.

He insists he is about to be tested for anthrax posioning after bursting out in a mystery rash ...and says he once proposed to Princess Diana. "We were like two caged animals," he adds.

Jackson, 43, spoke to the News of the World through his psychic best friend Uri Geller!

Our associate editor Phil Taylor and Uri, the world-famous author, paranormalist and psychic conducted the interview by phone from Uri's Berkshire mansion. This is what Jackson had to say...

NoW: Are you worried about the anthrax attacks in America and are you taking any precautions?

Jackson: Yes. I'm taking medication myself. Because-I don't know if I should say this-I'm very sick.

NoW: You're coughing a lot. Do you have the flu?

Jackson: I don't know. They're going to test me and the children for anthrax. We're all very, very sick right now. I've never felt so bad in my entire life. (Michael has custody of two children by estranged wife Debbie Rowe — Prince Michael Jnr, nicknamed Baby Doo Doo and pictured right with Jacko, is four, and daughter Paris Michael Katherine is two.)

NoW: Are you scared?

Jackson: No. I'm just praying that it's not getting worse. I feel very, very weak and sick.

NoW: Can you describe your symptoms?

Jackson: My chest burns very, very much. It's hard to breathe. And when I swallow it stings. It burns so bad. You can't stop coughing. And your eyes burn. And you're tired all the time. And your back hurts very much. There are some rashes. I've been seeing the doctor every day. They're going to take me in and do tests with me and my children."

NoW: Are you taking anything to treat it?

Jackson: Yes. And I won't open any envelopes now. I don't want to open anything. I'm very concerned about the children. I pray for them constantly. That's my main concern. I want them to be safe. How can you explain to them what's going on, and make them feel everything will be OK?

NoW: Do you think the Afghanistan crisis could result in World War III?

Jackson: I think a lot of what is going on is Biblically prophesied. But God promises he will not let man destroy the earth. That man will try, but he will not let them do it.

NoW: How much do you think America changed after the terrorist attack on September 11?

Jackson: People have never been so close in this country. Everybody has flags up everywhere. They speak again to each other. They say hello. They're hugging. It's like we've gone back to the 1930s or something.

NoW: How did you feel when the terrorists attacked New York?

Jackson: I felt my world end. I felt such grief. I cried and I cried.

The conversation eventually turns to his album.

NoW: You've written a song called Privacy On Invincible. Is it about Princess Diana?

Jackson: Oh boy! Y'know...we shared the same life. We shared the same pain. And that's what we could talk about on the phone. We were like two caged animals. We could talk about it. And that was our therapy-speaking to each other.

NoW: What was the most memorable thing Diana ever told you?

Jackson: To continue the work I'm doing to help the children. And whatever I do, don't stop. To continue to love and to travel and to go to the hospitals. That was her favourite thing about me-how much I loved them, sincerely, from the heart.

NoW: Did you love Princess Diana?

Jackson: I'm crazy about her. I adored her.

NoW: Would you have married Princess Diana if you'd had the chance?

Jackson: Yes! Yes!

NoW: Did you ever propose to her?

Jackson: Uhmm. There was some talk between us.

NoW: So did you have a chance to ask Diana to marry you?

Jackson: Er...oohh.

NoW: Come on, Michael. The whole world wants to know.

Jackson: We talked in that area. I will say that much. I think we lost a precious jewel when she died. We lost the heart of the world. It was like when we lost Mother Teresa. The world isn't the same place any more.

NoW: What's the best thing about being a pop star?

Jackson: Getting to share your gift from God with the world and hope and pray they accept it and love it. I just want to make wonderful music and give them a treat to the eye with song and dance and a sense of escapism, that's all really.

NoW: What was the loneliest time of your life?

Jackson: The loneliest? Oh boy, that's a tough one. I'm always lonely.

NoW: Are you lonely now?

Jackson: Of course. It's part of what I have to go through to be the artist that I am. I have to paint with a palette of different emotions.

NoW: What was the saddest time in your childhood?

Jackson: Wanting to be with other children and I couldn't. I was thrust into an adult world. All my childhood I was with grown-ups-playing nightclubs and fights break out and people drinking-Chicago, New York, Indiana, and all throughout the south and Philadelphia. I was never with children.

NoW: Were you ever physically abused?

Jackson: Of course, of course. I was beat up a lot when I was a little kid.

NoW: When you addressed the Oxford Union earlier this year you criticised your father for not showing you enough love as a child and depriving you of your childhood. Do you regret making that speech?

Jackson: No. Because out of the criticism came forgiveness. The speech was about how to forgive our parents for their wrongdoing and laziness. And I had a lot of harsh bitterness embedded in my soul. It was so bad that whenever I've been in the presence of my father-even now-I feel dizzy. I feel like I'm going to faint.

NoW: Have you spoken to your father since?

Jackson: Yes. He was at the Garden show (Madison Square Garden in New York where he celebrated 30 years in showbiz last month). I love him and I totally forgive him.

NoW: What made you write the track Speechless?

Jackson: Oh I love Speechless. I'd had a water balloon fight with kids. And right afterwards I ran upstairs and wrote Speechless in, like, 45 minutes, I really did.

NoW: Tell me about the message in your song The Lost Children.

Jackson: I'm saying there are souls out there that are lost. People who have disappeared and have never been found again. I remember when I was a little kid, I was in a department store with my mother. I was no more than five, I think. I turned around and she was gone.

I'll never forget the feeling. I felt my world was ending. So imagine really, really being lost. It's like Armageddon of the brain.

NoW: Finally Michael, are you at all optimistic about the world's future?

Jackson: Very. When I see a baby smile, I bubble with a sense of bliss. And I believe in that smile. I see God in that smile.

© Copyright News of the World, 2001.



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To: blackbart.223
Wow, it's been a bad week for Michael Jackson...

I just read in the newspaper that Pepsi has been forced to fire Jackson...

Yeah, they caught him suckin' on a Squirt!!...LOL

81 posted on 11/04/2001 3:20:48 PM PST by One4Indictment
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To: VA Advogado
Michael Jackson: I HAVE ANTRHAX??

No, you are a paranoid delusional child molesting hypochondriac and you have severe case of mental illness.

Now leave your monkey alone and go feed your llamas.

82 posted on 11/04/2001 3:21:37 PM PST by slimer
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To: RANGERAIRBORNE
"no-talent child molester"

I thought I was the only one with that opinion.

83 posted on 11/04/2001 3:24:41 PM PST by Sueann
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To: razorback-bert
Child molester and total sicko , I honeslty could care less what he is sick from he is already a sicko.
84 posted on 11/04/2001 3:26:22 PM PST by Snow Bunny
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To: VA Advogado
What a complete FREAK!!! I know those kids aren't his, but do they really live with him? Someone has to help those kids if they live with him...I mean how can any of his entourage allow children to live with a freak child molester??????
85 posted on 11/04/2001 3:27:02 PM PST by dixiemelody
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To: One4Indictment
"Wow, it's been a bad week for Michael Jackson... I just read in the newspaper that Pepsi has been forced to fire Jackson... Yeah, they caught him suckin' on a Squirt!!...LOL"

You are one sick puppy!

86 posted on 11/04/2001 3:27:05 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: VA Advogado

87 posted on 11/04/2001 3:27:52 PM PST by visagoth
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To: VA Advogado
Does Jackson qualify for the Darwin Award?
88 posted on 11/04/2001 3:41:37 PM PST by Fraulein
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To: ikka
Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman!
89 posted on 11/04/2001 3:42:05 PM PST by poweqi
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To: visagoth
Not quite as funny now, is it? What's their NEXT album going to be called- "SMALLPOX"?

Hey, just so long as some dumbass American teenager will buy it, it's like, cool, ya know???

90 posted on 11/04/2001 3:43:56 PM PST by RANGERAIRBORNE
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To: Ditter
This creature's last good song was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"when he was a kid.Since then he has undergone a serious mental degeneration and a strange physical transformation.Howard Hughes used to collect jars of his own urine and fingernail clippings-yech!!Some people can't deal with fame.
91 posted on 11/04/2001 3:45:21 PM PST by steamroller
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To: Salo
Here's another one (pretty bad)....Q: What do Michael Jackson & Willie Schoemaker have in common? A:They've both ridden 3-year-olds. (Hey,I didn't make it up!)
92 posted on 11/04/2001 4:04:20 PM PST by gimme1ibertee
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To: eddie willers
Am I the only one who noticed the source of this "interview"?

I noticed too. Which makes me think, when you read this:

Jackson: Yes. I'm taking medication myself. Because-I don't know if I should say this-I'm very sick.

NoW: You're coughing a lot. Do you have the flu?

which of the following options applies: (1) the interview is a hoax, or (2) Uri Geller has Anthrax?

93 posted on 11/04/2001 4:19:53 PM PST by Kiwigal
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To: VA Advogado
He'd better also get his refrigerator tested for salmonella. I hear it's being sent to want-to-be-in-the-news-too pop icons. [snicker]
94 posted on 11/04/2001 4:26:34 PM PST by Blue Eyes
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To: kcvl; VA Advogado
Okay. I know something I guess not many FReepers know about Michael Jackson.

My husband noticed a weird-looking white circle around a freckle on my shoulder. (I'm white, by the way.) He ran me right to the doctor. My doctor said I had Michael Jackson's disease, and I thought he was kidding. Nope. Michael Jackson and I have vitilago, an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own pigment cells. A biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.

It's pretty harmless for me, a Caucasian, but it was probably quite a shock for MJ to find himself turning white as his pigment cells began to disappear. It probably started on one hand--hence the "one glove" phase he went through. At some point he was probably quite "freckled" or piebald in appearance, and that is probably when he elected to have the remaining skin bleached at the dermatologist's, where he met his brood-mare wife. It would be far easier to end up with a half-way even-looking result with bleaching of the pigmented skin than by trying to do anything with the cancer-prone vitilago-affected regions.

Vitilago has no real ill effects except that affected areas have a very highly increased rate of skin cancer. I have to keep the areas of my body that have gone Victorian-white completely out of the sun, and I'm much more careful about using sunscreen on the rest of me. (Because of lupus, I stay out of the direct sun anyway, but even indirect UV rays can be a problem with vitilago.) Anyway, that would explain the hats, the scarves, the head-to-toe covering MJ uses when he's out in public during the daylight hours.

I have no idea why his kids are so light--but--one of my sisters-in-law is married to a black guy, and their first kid is dusky skinned with blonde hair and green eyes. The other two are darker. It's just a matter of how genes are expressed, and it's pretty much meaningless. If you look at the features of his children, I think you can see a little of the original, out-of-the-box pop star in them.

My best friend is a black lady and I thought she was going to literally fall on the floor laughing when I told her I have Michael Jackson's disease. "What, are you going to turn white???"

I'm not saying he's not bizarre, but to a certain extent, at least with the appearance issue, he has cause.
95 posted on 11/04/2001 5:01:01 PM PST by ChemistCat
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To: cdwright
OMG, we had no idea.

Come out of the closet TG. We know you're on his fan club alert list. :)

96 posted on 11/04/2001 5:03:40 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: ChemistCat
I'm not saying he's not bizarre, but to a certain extent, at least with the appearance issue, he has cause.

LOL Chemmy, you always seem to make me grin.

97 posted on 11/04/2001 5:05:49 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Temple Drake; Fraulein; NYCVirago; EmmaPeel
C'mon you guys give Jacko a break- at least he's a black man trying to raise his kids himself and be a good father (/sarcasm in his case).
98 posted on 11/04/2001 5:13:04 PM PST by mafree
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To: mafree
C'mon you guys give Jacko a break- at least he's a black man trying to raise his kids himself and be a good father (/sarcasm in his case).

That would only apply if he were still black and still a man.

99 posted on 11/04/2001 5:22:39 PM PST by goodieD
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To: VA Advogado
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100 posted on 11/04/2001 5:24:39 PM PST by Lady GOP
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