He didn't get weird, he was made weird.
From a young age Jackson was physically and mentally abused by his father, enduring incessant rehearsals, whippings and name-calling. Jackson's abuse as a child affected him throughout his grown life. In one altercation—later recalled by Marlon Jackson—Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks". Joseph would often trip up, or push the male children into walls. One night while Jackson was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window. Wearing a fright mask, he entered the room screaming and shouting. Joseph said he wanted to teach his children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his bedroom.
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He didn't get weird, he was made weird.
You have to have a license to drive a car, to fish, to hunt, but not to be a goddamn parent. Jesus.
Who can blame him for creating Neverland for himself.
He didn't get weird, he was made weird.
So true. As weird as he became, I always felt sorry for the kid he didn't get to be.
Man, that's just. . . those poor kids.
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Y'all the live footage from ucla med ctr is crazy. Mass "press" packing an entrance trying to get to an official press conference, they think.
His dad was a monster and then I think I've read reports that he was exposed to the sexual activities of his brothers when he was way too young. Scarred from many different angles.
Woah - really surprised about Michael Jackson.
(Especially considering my department had a completely morbid but business-necessary Celebrity Deathwatch meeting this week and decided to start pulling Farrah Fawcett, Ted Kennedy, and Walter Cronkite footage right away. MJ wasn't even in the ballpark of possibilities.)
Walter Cronkite *isn't* dead?
