Elton John has added his voice to the continuing debate about the late music icon Michael Jackson, claiming that he was a “disturbing person to be around.”
John claimed that he had known Jackson from way back in his teenage years…
He revealed that throughout the years that followed, he seemed to lose his way.
Jackson died suddenly back in 2009 at the age of 50…
And sadly, since then many infamous stories and rumours about him have come out that will never truly be put to rest.
In his 2019 autobiography, Me, Elton John made remarks about Michael Jackson and his relationship with him.
Jackson, who had a history of being accused of s*xually abusing children, was labelled “mentally ill” by John.
“I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14,” Elton wrote. “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.”
Elton continued by speculating that he believed Jackson’s transformation was the result of his long-standing drug addiction.
“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 that the poor guy had totally lost his marbles,” the singer said.
He added: “I don’t mean that in the lighthearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.”
“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.”
Jackson preferred the company of kids to adults, according to Elton John…
He didn’t address the charges made against him in recent years, but did write: “For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all.”
After hearing what John had to say about the King of Pop, dozens have spoken out…
One defended the star, writing: “It’s called Social Anxiety. And many people have it. Some more severe than others. I used to have it bad. I was very awkward and weird to people that I didn’t know.”
While another agreed:
“It’s called “Arrested Development”. He was deeply traumatised and scarred as a child, never taught how to deal with fame, reality, adulthood. True Peter Pan syndrome. Very sad really.”
“This is the result of bad parenting. So sad because he was so talented,” a third said.
What do you make of his comments?