Why Was Michael Jackson So Odd?

I hope this isn’t too TMI but I am ex Mormon and I had been with my previous husband for 17 years and I thought everything was normal and no problems. Swearing was not a thing that was allowed in the Mormon church so when I was intimate for the first time with my second husband, who is not a Mormon And has never had anything to do with the Mormons when we were together I said Frick and he looked down at me and he goes sweetie. You are 37 years old. Just use the real word lol. Yeah us X cult members are strange.

I never once believed that he was inappropriate to the children he invited to his ranch. It does raise eyebrows, but for a harmless reason: Here's an adult who is only just now experiencing how it was like to be a child. Others who had a normal childhood would find MJ's behavior strange.

Ja Rule family Jehovah witnesses I believe Jay Z mom's was one also. But let's be honest Michael was disfellowshipped after Thriller. So him celebrating Xmas at that time didn't bother the elders.

I think that growing up in a two bedroom house with 10 other people probably conditioned Michael to be used to having other kids in his bed. He may have thought that is the way that kids always sleep or that was the way he was most comfortable.

I didn’t realize he was a witness and I never knew what a yucky cult they are until I learned it here. Thanks! My Michael theory is if you could empathize with Michael and be super rich and every grownup you meet basically can’t be trusted because you never know what their intentions are. Kids, on the other hand, no, not that hand! Kids just want to have fun and eat snacks.

I hate to say this but I'm kind of shocked and disgusted by the amount of people in these comments defending that sick freak and with the channel's creator, for the same reason. Defending him because he was a mega-star? Well, he was also a mega-pedo who used his "power," status, and celebrity to make a 7-year-old fellate him. Owen you've said other things that I disagree with, but I've let it slide because we're allowed to disagree sometimes, but this is way too much, and all of you others that are ok with it, it's just gross. And before one of you says it, of course he didn't abuse McCauley Culkin, Culkin was already a celebrity; Jackson used him as cover, and Culkin did his job perfectly. Watch "Leaving Neverland," and tell me you still don't think he was as gross on the inside, as he was on the outside. While Copeland was born looking like a monster, Jackson made himself into one, and it was 100% apt. Finally, I'm sorry to say, but Owen, as I stated, this is one opinion I can't support on any level and I'm unsubbing from both channels of yours, that I'm subbed to.

Wen I was forced to celebrate a birthday, I was vomiting the way to the restaurant… phuu.

True! He did not fit in and this makes the people suspicious

He was a child molester

Yeah, Michael was a weird guy. I too was raised as a JW. However when it came to Christmas I understood most of the things they would do but in my house we never shut that part down. We would watch the Christmas movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Story". We were not the typical depiction of a JW family despite the fact that my father was a congregation elder. Not all of us were completely isolated but I was still weird too.

Michael having Christmas reminds me of me at 28 going into a bar that had dancing. I'm surprised my back didn't break from how tense I was. I was clueless. I knew three things. Two drinks an hour to maintain control, maintain eye contact, not every worldly girl is trying to fornicate with me. Yup, I knew that much.

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Michael Jackson became a Jehovah Witness when he was 5. So he, and his older brothers knew of Christmas until he turned 5. He liked to act in many of these videos, and many people buy him not understanding simple things.

I think yes Jackson didn't have much of a childhood, but that doesn't mean he didn't commit harm to these children. He even admitted to giving children wine called "Jesus Juice' in coke cans and giving them adult magazines. However I was not there, and don't know the full story, nor was anyone else. But there were other children who went over to his home who did have a "normal childhood." So can't explain everything away. He was found not guilty, but that just means the prosecutor couldn't prove enough. Don't bother responding to me as I'll delete your comments

You know what I think Michael was very naive, way too innocent than the rest of us and he spent his whiole childhood and adolescence sheltered doing nothing but being on stage since the age of 5, he didn't socialize with many people outside of musicians, he just didn't know that society would think it was something wrong or criminal, because he actually did nothing wrong but just watched movies and played video games with the kids like he was one himself because he never had the chance to do it as a kid. Not to mention the horrible abuse from his father. You can see in his behavior since the 70s as a teenager that he was actually childlike. You just can't fake it your whole life. He genuinally enjoyed having fun with animals, in amusement parks, etc, the way kids do. He essentially stayed emotionally suck in that childlike state due to his childhood. He said it himself at the height of his sucess with Thriller at 25 years old that the place he felt more comfortable was on stage, that everything else was new to him, that he was shy and that he was just beginning to learn about people and friendship. At 25. Imagine that. I bet it would be incredibly hard just for someone like you and I, now add in billions of dollars and fame, perfect opportunity to accuse him of these things and get money. He was an easy target, they saw he was vulnerable and took adventage of his kindness and naivety. He just couldn't say no if the children wanted to come to his room, (a 2 stories bedroom), play and sleep in his bed beside him. Cause after all, sleeping on a bed is not a crime and by helping and playing with children, he was helping and nurturing his own inner child. And he was found not guilty on all 14 counts in 2005 anyway.

Didn’t know he was JW starting to all make sense

he wanted to delete the thriller video because his church told him it was demonic, he had damnnear a breakdown and cried and immediately told all his managers/promotion team/his people to destroy the thriller video tapes, somebody convinced him not to and thats why he put that wanring at the start of the video. he still stopped all the thriller promotion i think even tho the song was still in its hype phase.

what made him leave was the smooth criminal music video in 1987. he was shooting with a gun in that video and the watch tower was outraged about his bad representation and gave him an ultimatum, either the chruch or his fame. Jackson struggled but in the end chsoe his career. he still retained a lot of the JW beliefs all the way until his death but he was very confused from that point on spiritually speaking. reading and trying out different beliefs and religions, eastern religions, new age spirituality and more.

looking back at his statements about still believing in jesus and the bible and private/leaked interviews, his religion ended up being kind of a mix mainly from JW and normal christianity with some of his own interpretations and some new age spirituality at the time of his death.

The jehovah witness have a great way of finding extremely talented people

Corey Feldman never claimed anything happened either.

He was a weird dude. But a pedo? No not at all.

Prince was a Jehovah's Witness. And he was also a weird dude.

Thank you! I've been thinking about this for a while now; given all the things I've learned about Jehovah's witnesses, then finding out MJ was one, suddenly that made everything so clear to me. I don't think Michael Jackson did any of the things he was accused of, he really was just weird.

Out of all the things Jehovah witnesses aren't allowed to do, why is being a celebrity especially a child star acceptable? Anything else that would take that much time away from meetings and service, anything else that would require so much worldly association would not be okay. No higher education allowed but being a famous actor or singer even as a child is okay? Also isn't the entertainment industry ran by Satan?

I have been around actual pedofiles. I have autisim and grew up in a controling household he always seemed like he was isolated and never got to have childhood friends abuse and all that he internalised it never turned it into hate he tried to spread joy the joy he never had

No way you all have seen Surviving Neverland and have all this sympathy