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JACKO: I SLEEP WITH KIDS... IT'S FUN
Feb 4 2003
Michael's amazing TV confession screened UK, to be shown Later in USA this wk, bought for over 3 million !
MICHAEL Jackson has sensationally admitted he regularly sleeps with children in his bedroom - sometimes in the same bed.
The eccentric star, rocked by a child abuse scandal in 1993, admits he often invites disadvantaged youngsters to stay with him overnight for "milk and cookies".
But he insists his motives are not sexual. "It's just fun," he says.
Jackson revealed the full extent of his obsession with children in a shocking TV interview.
The singer's disturbing admissions come a decade after he paid £18million to 13-year-old Jordan Chandler after being accused of molesting him.
In a Tonight special shown on ITV1 last night he also claimed he:
ONLY ever had plastic surgery on his nose - and that was to help him sing high notes.
NEVER met the surrogate mother of his third child, Prince Michael II.
SNATCHED his daughter Paris from hospital and took her home minutes after she was born.
DANGLED his son from a hotel balcony just to please fans and held on to him "tight and strong".
DREAMS of adopting at least 10 more children.
During the interview with Martin Bashir, Jackson was shown holding hands with one of his "best friends" - a 12-year old boy called Gavin.
He met the 44-year-old star two years ago after being told he was dying of cancer and has since made regular visits to Jackson's Neverland ranch outside Los Angeles.
Gavin told Bashir: "There was one night, I asked him if I could stay in his bedroom and he let me stay.
"I was like, Michael you can sleep in the bed, and he was like, `no, no, you sleep on the bed - if you love me you'll sleep in the bed'.
"I finally slept on the bed. But it was fun that night."
Jackson denied there was anything strange in his behaviour. "Why can't you share your bed?" he asked. "The most loving thing to do, is to share your bed with someone.
"My greatest inspiration comes from kids. Every song, every dance, all the poetry I write, is all inspired by that level of innocence.
"That consciousness of purity. And children have that. I see God in the face of children. And man, I just love being around that all the time."
Bashir was not convinced. This is how the bizarre exchange unfolded:
Bashir: Is it really appropriate for a 44-year-old man to share a bedroom with a child that is not related to him at all?
Jackson: That's a beautiful thing.
Bashir: That's not a worrying thing?
Jackson: Why should that be worrying? Who's Jack the Ripper in the room? There's some guy trying to heal a child, I'm sleeping on a sleeping bag on the floor.
Bashir: Did you ever sleep in the bed with them?
Jackson: No. But I have slept in a bed with many children, I slept in a bed with all of them when Macauley Culkin was little.
"Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macauley Culkin was on this side, his sisters in there. We all would just jam in the bed you know we would wake up at dawn and go in the hot air balloon. You know we had the footage. I have all that footage.
Bashir: But is that right, Michael?
Jackson: It's very right. It's very loving. That's what the world needs now - more love, more heart.
Bashir: The world needs a man who's 44 sleeping in a bed with children?
Jackson: No, you're making it all wrong.
Bashir: I suppose the problem for many people is what happened in 1993, or what didn't happen. How did you feel about the allegations?
Jackson: I was shocked because God knows how much I adore children.
Bashir: Isn't that precisely the problem, that when you actually invite children into your bed you never know what is going to happen?
Jackson: When you say bed, you're thinking sexual - it's not sexual, We're going to sleep, I tuck them in and I put a little music on and when it's story time I read a book.
"We go to sleep, I give them hot milk, you know, we have cookies, it's very charming it's very sweet, it's what the whole world should do.
Bashir: Why does it mean so much to you?
Jackson: I'm just very sensitive to their pain. If there were no children on this earth, if someone announced all kids were dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately."
At one stage Bashir was shocked when Jackson asked if he'd ever tried sleeping in the same bed as a child.
Jackson: Because what's wrong with sharing a love? You don't sleep with your kids or some other kid who needs love who didn't have a good childhood?
Bashir: No, no I don't. I would never dream...
Jackson: That's cos you've never been where I've been mentally.
Bashir: But Michael, I wouldn't like my children to sleep in anybody else's bed.
Jackson: Well, I wouldn't mind if I knew the person well.
During the interview, filmed over several months, Jackson displays some odd behaviour towards his own three children - all of whom have their faces covered at all times.
He talks about the birth of his four-year-old daughter Paris.
"She came out the wrong way and was being kind of choked by the umbilical cord," he says. "So I was kind of worried and I was so anxious to get her home that, after cutting the cord - I hate to say this - I snatched her and just went home with all the placenta all over her.
"I'm not kidding - I got her in a towel and ran." He insists Paris's mother, dermatology nurse Debbie Rowe, did not mind him taking the baby away.
He says she gave him the children "as a gift":
Bashir: So she knew that Michael Jackson wanted children?
Jackson: Yes, that's why. She said, `you need to be a daddy'.
Bashir: She said you needed to be a daddy more than she needed to be a mother?
Jackson: Yeah. She wanted to do that for me as a present.
Bashir: As a present?
Jackson: As a gift. I used to walk around holding baby dolls.
Bashir: Really?
Jackson: Yes, cos I wanted children so badly.
Bashir: Your wife gave you two children as a present because she knew you wanted to be a father?
Jackson: Yeah. It was a lovely gesture.
Bashir: It's an incredible gesture.
Jackson says the mother of his third child, Prince Michael II - whom calls Blanket - is a black woman he has never met.
"I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells," he said. "I didn't care what race she is as long as she is healthy."
Jackson says he was angered by claims he could have hurt Blanket when he dangled him over a hotel balcony in Berlin.
"We were waving to thousands of fans and they were chanting they wanted to see my child, so I was kind enough to let them see. I was doing something out of innocence. I was holding my son tight and strong."
Jackson admitted his own upbringing was traumatic. While touring as a child star he had to pretend to be asleep while his brothers brought girls back to their bedroom for sex.
He was also petrified of his dad Joseph, who regularly beat them with a belt. "I was so terrified of him I would regurgitate," he said.
Jackson revealed how in later life he was unable to have a physical relationship with his first love, Tatum O'Neal.
He said she tried to seduce him, but as she began to undress him, he held his face in his hands - and she gave up.
"I was very naive," he said. "I just wasn't ready for that." But he says he will never take out his hang-ups on his own children - or anyone else's.
"It's not true that the abused abuse," he insisted.
He said he wanted to adopt at least 10 more children - a boy and a girl from every continent. "That's my dream."
Jackson also denied having any plastic surgery - apart from his nose. "It helped me breathe better so I can hit the high notes," he explained.
He reacted angrily when Bashir suggested that he had been under the knife numerous times.
"None of it's true," he snapped. "They made it up."
Feb 4 2003
Michael's amazing TV confession screened UK, to be shown Later in USA this wk, bought for over 3 million !
MICHAEL Jackson has sensationally admitted he regularly sleeps with children in his bedroom - sometimes in the same bed.
The eccentric star, rocked by a child abuse scandal in 1993, admits he often invites disadvantaged youngsters to stay with him overnight for "milk and cookies".
But he insists his motives are not sexual. "It's just fun," he says.
Jackson revealed the full extent of his obsession with children in a shocking TV interview.
The singer's disturbing admissions come a decade after he paid £18million to 13-year-old Jordan Chandler after being accused of molesting him.
In a Tonight special shown on ITV1 last night he also claimed he:
ONLY ever had plastic surgery on his nose - and that was to help him sing high notes.
NEVER met the surrogate mother of his third child, Prince Michael II.
SNATCHED his daughter Paris from hospital and took her home minutes after she was born.
DANGLED his son from a hotel balcony just to please fans and held on to him "tight and strong".
DREAMS of adopting at least 10 more children.
During the interview with Martin Bashir, Jackson was shown holding hands with one of his "best friends" - a 12-year old boy called Gavin.
He met the 44-year-old star two years ago after being told he was dying of cancer and has since made regular visits to Jackson's Neverland ranch outside Los Angeles.
Gavin told Bashir: "There was one night, I asked him if I could stay in his bedroom and he let me stay.
"I was like, Michael you can sleep in the bed, and he was like, `no, no, you sleep on the bed - if you love me you'll sleep in the bed'.
"I finally slept on the bed. But it was fun that night."
Jackson denied there was anything strange in his behaviour. "Why can't you share your bed?" he asked. "The most loving thing to do, is to share your bed with someone.
"My greatest inspiration comes from kids. Every song, every dance, all the poetry I write, is all inspired by that level of innocence.
"That consciousness of purity. And children have that. I see God in the face of children. And man, I just love being around that all the time."
Bashir was not convinced. This is how the bizarre exchange unfolded:
Bashir: Is it really appropriate for a 44-year-old man to share a bedroom with a child that is not related to him at all?
Jackson: That's a beautiful thing.
Bashir: That's not a worrying thing?
Jackson: Why should that be worrying? Who's Jack the Ripper in the room? There's some guy trying to heal a child, I'm sleeping on a sleeping bag on the floor.
Bashir: Did you ever sleep in the bed with them?
Jackson: No. But I have slept in a bed with many children, I slept in a bed with all of them when Macauley Culkin was little.
"Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macauley Culkin was on this side, his sisters in there. We all would just jam in the bed you know we would wake up at dawn and go in the hot air balloon. You know we had the footage. I have all that footage.
Bashir: But is that right, Michael?
Jackson: It's very right. It's very loving. That's what the world needs now - more love, more heart.
Bashir: The world needs a man who's 44 sleeping in a bed with children?
Jackson: No, you're making it all wrong.
Bashir: I suppose the problem for many people is what happened in 1993, or what didn't happen. How did you feel about the allegations?
Jackson: I was shocked because God knows how much I adore children.
Bashir: Isn't that precisely the problem, that when you actually invite children into your bed you never know what is going to happen?
Jackson: When you say bed, you're thinking sexual - it's not sexual, We're going to sleep, I tuck them in and I put a little music on and when it's story time I read a book.
"We go to sleep, I give them hot milk, you know, we have cookies, it's very charming it's very sweet, it's what the whole world should do.
Bashir: Why does it mean so much to you?
Jackson: I'm just very sensitive to their pain. If there were no children on this earth, if someone announced all kids were dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately."
At one stage Bashir was shocked when Jackson asked if he'd ever tried sleeping in the same bed as a child.
Jackson: Because what's wrong with sharing a love? You don't sleep with your kids or some other kid who needs love who didn't have a good childhood?
Bashir: No, no I don't. I would never dream...
Jackson: That's cos you've never been where I've been mentally.
Bashir: But Michael, I wouldn't like my children to sleep in anybody else's bed.
Jackson: Well, I wouldn't mind if I knew the person well.
During the interview, filmed over several months, Jackson displays some odd behaviour towards his own three children - all of whom have their faces covered at all times.
He talks about the birth of his four-year-old daughter Paris.
"She came out the wrong way and was being kind of choked by the umbilical cord," he says. "So I was kind of worried and I was so anxious to get her home that, after cutting the cord - I hate to say this - I snatched her and just went home with all the placenta all over her.
"I'm not kidding - I got her in a towel and ran." He insists Paris's mother, dermatology nurse Debbie Rowe, did not mind him taking the baby away.
He says she gave him the children "as a gift":
Bashir: So she knew that Michael Jackson wanted children?
Jackson: Yes, that's why. She said, `you need to be a daddy'.
Bashir: She said you needed to be a daddy more than she needed to be a mother?
Jackson: Yeah. She wanted to do that for me as a present.
Bashir: As a present?
Jackson: As a gift. I used to walk around holding baby dolls.
Bashir: Really?
Jackson: Yes, cos I wanted children so badly.
Bashir: Your wife gave you two children as a present because she knew you wanted to be a father?
Jackson: Yeah. It was a lovely gesture.
Bashir: It's an incredible gesture.
Jackson says the mother of his third child, Prince Michael II - whom calls Blanket - is a black woman he has never met.
"I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells," he said. "I didn't care what race she is as long as she is healthy."
Jackson says he was angered by claims he could have hurt Blanket when he dangled him over a hotel balcony in Berlin.
"We were waving to thousands of fans and they were chanting they wanted to see my child, so I was kind enough to let them see. I was doing something out of innocence. I was holding my son tight and strong."
Jackson admitted his own upbringing was traumatic. While touring as a child star he had to pretend to be asleep while his brothers brought girls back to their bedroom for sex.
He was also petrified of his dad Joseph, who regularly beat them with a belt. "I was so terrified of him I would regurgitate," he said.
Jackson revealed how in later life he was unable to have a physical relationship with his first love, Tatum O'Neal.
He said she tried to seduce him, but as she began to undress him, he held his face in his hands - and she gave up.
"I was very naive," he said. "I just wasn't ready for that." But he says he will never take out his hang-ups on his own children - or anyone else's.
"It's not true that the abused abuse," he insisted.
He said he wanted to adopt at least 10 more children - a boy and a girl from every continent. "That's my dream."
Jackson also denied having any plastic surgery - apart from his nose. "It helped me breathe better so I can hit the high notes," he explained.
He reacted angrily when Bashir suggested that he had been under the knife numerous times.
"None of it's true," he snapped. "They made it up."
