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Jackson disses family members in unsurfaced eighties interview
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 22 September 2009
I’m not sure we should really be dwelling on an interview Michael Jackson gave in 1988 just because he spends much of it dissing his brothers, but hey, the News Of The World did, so let’s do it anyway. The interview, given to the ghostwriters of his autobiography ‘Moonwalk’, sees Jacko diss brothers and former bandmates Jermaine, Tito, Marlon and Jackie, though the late king of pop seemingly got cold feet and insisted the material not be used in the final book.
According to the NoW, Jackson recalls the latter years of the Jackson Five in the interview, and says: “The brothers didn’t give me support. We’d be working on a TV show or video and they’d be sitting around moaning and groaning but I’d be watching and learning. It takes a talent, but some people are lazy and don’t want to develop anything”.
During the interview he calls Marlon “old-fashioned”, Jackie “negative” and Jermaine a “womanizer”, whilst youngest brother Randy, a late addition to The Jacksons, was “hard-headed” and “macho”. He goes on to criticise his mother for giving a “tell all” interview about his childhood, calls his older sister La Toya “Mrs Nice and Nasty”, and criticises his youngest sibling Janet’s marriage to producer James DeBarge, observing: “It kills me to see her off and married. We did everything together and were just alike. It’s a terrible loss”.
As previously reported, ‘Moonwalk’ will be republished next month, though still without the juicy family slagging bits, I think. No fun.
