*Elton John opens up about his relationship with Michael Jackson in his new memoir, and how it changed as the late singer got older.
“I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14,” John wrote in an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir “Me,” which was published by The Independent, PEOPLE reports. “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,” John writes.
“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 the poor guy had totally lost his marbles. I don’t mean that in the light-hearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around,” it continues. “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.”
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This is just a short picture thread of a “mentally I’ll disturbing to be around” Michael Jackson who according to Elton John in 1993 stated he didn’t sit down for dinner in ten years with adults because he felt uncomfortable pic.twitter.com/TDhrr0wQMi
— Maria Hassell (@MeYouUsMJFAM) October 13, 2019
John went on to describe a dinner party he once threw that MJ attend. But according to the “Rocket Man” singer, Jackson dismissed himself from the dinner table, and was later found hanging with the housekeeper and her 11-year-old son.
“After a while, he got up from the table without a word and disappeared. We finally found him, two hours later, in a cottage in the grounds of Woodside where my housekeeper lived: she was sitting there, watching Michael Jackson quietly playing video games with her 11-year-old son,” John wrote. “For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all.”
John’s account follows the disturbing allegations made against the King of Pop in HBO’s controversial “Leaving Neverland” documentary in which two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, claim Jackson sexually abused them both as children.
The Jackson estate has sued HBO and slammed the Emmy Award-winning documentary for being “another rehash of dated and discredited allegations.”
“Me” will be available on Oct. 15.
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