Michael Jackson looking kind of… vulnerable during the 1995 interview with Diane Sawyer. Famous for being the interview with Lisa Marie Presley but also famous for Diane Saywer grilling him endlessly over the allegations.
Despite these screen captures, Michael kept his cool and confidence in anwsering every question, dodging none. He wanted to anwser everything, even as far as telling Lisa Marie to continue anwsering a question even if Diane Saywer butted in with another one.
He sat there in the open, on live tv. No edits, no list of questions he wouldn’t anwser. He faced Diane, he didn’t cower or hide anything. It made me proud to be a fan and better yet a supporter of his innocence.
“When he’s on tour, he goes to hospitals without the press following him. Without anyone knowing. He’ll get up in a disguise and do it. Take his disguise off when he’s there and kids know “Wow, it’s Michael Jackson!”
Diane Saywer: Was there no point at which you said to yourself, reading everything that everybody had been reading “Maybe this is true? Maybe I completely didn’t understand who he was?”
“No. [Shakes head]. No way. Absolutely not!
Diane Saywer: Never?
“Never! I know Michael’s heart. I know his mind and his soul. I’m not that insensitive. Especially to him, or people I love.”
Diane Saywer: How did you decide to go to Singapore?
“He was my friend. He was alone, he was totally alone. And he just, uh, he needed help. Nothing in the world could ever hurt him more. If it’d been calculated. If they had planned an assisination, they couldn’t have done it any better. It almost, it almost broke his heart.
He wasn’t aware of what was happening (Michael’s dependance on pain killers), he was dulling his pain but it really frightened me because I had been there and I know how easy it is to get there when you’re in mental or physical pain.”
