New Book that offers hint of Michael Jackson's private life

The death of King of Pop on June 25, 2009 had left all of his avid fans and some of the people who mocks him perplexed; questions like “Why MJ take medicines and always being drugged up?”, “Is he really a pedophile?”, “How come that he married the only child of Elvis Presley Lisa Marie knowing that he is already married to Debbie Rowe?” and more of the speculations and gossips are made by rumormongers who do nothing with their own life, but bothers to pry about MJ.

I admit, me myself is an avid fan of Michael Jackson, and when I heard in the news that he p(–foul word(s) removed–)ed away, well, I can’t help myself not to cry remembering his song “Ben” and I even screamed about it. Jackson had a profound influence on me, not only of his music but the way he deals with people around him and being a philanthropist. He is one of the kindest soul I know that I will surely miss.

I guess, people are really too judgmental with the business he’s in.

So, if you’re looking for answers about Jackson’s life, a new book that offers its readers to have a glance of the King of Pop’s ‘shocking and ‘hush-hush’ life is highly recommended for you to turn its pages. This book, that was written by Frank Cascio, a personal (–foul word(s) removed–)istant-turned-personal manager of MJ is entitled “My Friend Michael: An Ordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man.”

Cascio at the age of 5 became a family friend and eventually turned to be one of the closest friend and employee of Jackson. In the book, Cascio writes that Jackson was first introduced to Demerol in 1984 when he burned his head during a Pepsi commercial shoot, and started using the medicine on his “Dangerous World Tour” which includes 69 performances for the benefit of various charities including his own “Heal the World Foundation” and was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola.

Jackson ended the said tour due to an illness that requires hospitalization, and by that time, the legend singer became dependent on medicines and even to drugs.

According to Cascio, the singer also took propofol in 1999 in Munich when the singer was 50 feet in the air and instead of coming down slowly, the platform Jackson was on fell down. And in order to treat his skin disease vitiligo, MJ also takes Demerol.

“I became worried about his drug use, it had become clear to me that Michael’s drug use was escalating,” Cascio wrote. Cascio said that sometimes he needs to pay the doctors in cash “because all of MJ’s medical issues had to be kept from public and their cost off the books.” Cascio also said that he had some of the prescriptions written out in his name.

Cascio added that he really want to help Michael, he wanted to look for help but he didn’t know who to turn to, so ahead of Jackson’s 2001 anniversary shows, he spoke to Tito, Janet, and Randy, but MJ “simply puched them away” when three of his siblings approached the said singer.

Conrad Murray, the pop star’s doctor was convicted on Monday of involuntary manslaughter for supplying insomnia-plagued Jackson with the powerful operating-room anesthetic propofol to help MJ sleep.

“But in the end, physical and mental anguish prevailed, but Michael died in his endless quest to attain some inner peace,” Cascio writes.

Moreover, in 1993, when the pop star was accused of child molestation charges, he asked the Cascio family to visit him in Israel while he was on tour. He later asked if the young boys could stay on tour with them.

“He went to my father and broke down crying,” Cascio writes. “People might question my parents’ judgment in sending two young boys off to spend time alone with a man who had been accused of molesting another boy. But to us, the suggestion that we were in any danger was completely absurd.”

Throughout the book, Cascio writes that MJ never had sex with children, but had a love for them, wanted to be a father of 10 kids in total.

“MJ teneded to like tall, and slender women whom I describe as nerdy in a sexy way, and Princess Diana was at the top of his list of women he wanted to date,” Cascio writes.

Cascio also said that Jackson used to claim that dancer and rapper Omer Bhatti, was his son, long rumored to be his love child by a Norwegian woman, but Cascio did not believe him. Jackson later admitted that it wasn’t true.

“By way of an explanation, Michael gave me the same reason he’d given for his marriages to Lisa Marie and Debbie Rowe. He needed to show the Saudi prince and the rest of the Arab business world that he had a family,” Cascio writes.

When he worked as his personal manager, Cascio said that he had to interfere when John McClain, now the co-executor of Jackson’s estate, and the director of Jackson’s “You Rock My World” music video, wanted the singer “to use makeup to darken Michael’s skin for the video” and “to fill in his nose with putty.”

Cascio said Jackson locked himself in a bathroom and cried.

“They think I’m ugly?” Jackson asked. “They think I’m a freak, they think I’m a freak, they think I’m a freak.”

Do you think MJ is a freak? For me, he’s not. He made every way possible he can do to entertain us and give hopes for children in charity. He made his life useful! There’s no way he can go back and change what had happened and start a new beginning. It is us who have the chance to make a new start and make our life perfectly useful, not only for ourselves, but for other people.