We don’t often have the opportunity to get up close and personal with mega-celebrities, but other mega-celebrities do. That is the case with Elton John, who had an opportunity to be close to Michael Jackson.
Elton John has been around for many years and it seems as if he had known Michael Jackson from when he was a teenager. Now, he is causing some waves because he is asserting that Michael Jackson is a ‘disturbing person to be around.’
Many of us remember the day that Michael Jackson passed away. He was only 50 years old at the time and it was in 2009. Since then, there have been many rumors circulating about his life and personality.
This includes some rumors that Elton John may be starting, and he wrote about it in his autobiography, Me. In that 2009 autobiography, he talks about his relationship with Jackson.
Something that you need to remember about Jackson is the problems that he had when he was alive. He had been accused many times of sexually abusing children, and Elton John and now labeled him as being ‘mentally ill.’
Elton wrote: “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.”
Even though Elton didn’t know for certain, he did speculate that the strange transformation was associated with the long-term drug addiction that Jackson experienced.
He went on to say: “God knows what was going on in his head, and God knows what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of, but every time I saw him in his later years I came away thinking that the poor guy had totally lost his marbles.
“I don’t mean that in a lighthearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.
“It was incredibly sad, but he was someone you couldn’t help: he was just gone, off in a world of his own, surrounded by people who only told him what he wanted to hear.”
He also wrote: “For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all.”
As you can imagine, there were people who agreed without John and his opinion of Michael Jackson and there were others who defended Jackson. I guess it’s something that will always be debated.