Elton John Says Michael Jackson Was “A Disturbing Person To Be Around”
“For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all."
Elton John has shared an extract of his upcoming memoir in which he calls Michael Jackson “a disturbing person to be around”.
— Content warning: this article addresses alleged child sexual abuse. —
In an excerpt of John’s Me, as obtained by Radar Online, the singer details several encounters with Jackson, who he first met in the ’70s when Jackson was a teenager.
According to John, Jackson “was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around”, and believes that he had “totally lost his marbles” by the ’00s.
He also shares an anecdote of a lunch at his own house that Jackson attended in the ’90s. Looking “awful, really frail and ill”, Jackson then disappeared from the table “without a word” according to John. John later found Jackson “quietly playing games” with his housekeeper’s 11-year-old son, in the housekeeper’s separate house.
“For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all,” he writes.
The comments come after Leaving Neverland debuted this January. The explosive two-part documentary centring on two men who allege they were sexually abused and groomed as children by Michael Jackson during the late ’80s and early ’90s.
Jackson died in June 2009, due to medical malpractice by his doctor. His estate and family deny the documentary’s allegations.
Feature images via Wikipedia. Jackson photo by shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, John by Ernst Vikne shared under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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