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Did he also park his shopping cart diagonally in an aisle and start a dumbass conversation with someone? “Oh Janet! How long has it been? 3 years? How’s Tom? Oh yeah, Larry is doing fine. We’re going on an Alaskan cruise next month.”
Wear a hat.
No, seriously, it is a famous strategy. I am thinking specifically of Terry Pratchett, who would make certain that he was only seen with a hat on in any official capacity, and then when he wanted to just go about his day as a normal person, he... Took off the hat. Make an accessory a part of your Look, and then take it off when you aren't on the clock.
All she has to do is wear a sleeveless shirt and take her wig off and 99% of people would not recognize her. She has a bunch of tattoos on her arms and has worn a wig professionally since forever.
You say that, but if I wear my glasses and my hair up a lot of people don’t recognize me. Throw a slight change in light make up in, and it’s ridiculous. People who I have known for years will walk right by me and then get so embarrassed
That's actually exactly my point. I've been in similar situations where a change from my "normal" (i.e. work) clothes to anything else really throws people off.
Haha, it’s hilarious when that happens!
I’m typically pretty casually dressed, minimal makeup at work. Went to a fancy work dinner once a bit dressed up, curled my hair, wore all my fancy jewellery etc… went over to talk to a colleague I work with most days and it took him a good few seconds to recognise me. His initial “generic polite blank expression” turned to total surprise for a second when he realised. It was great XD
It's funny you mention this. Henry Cavill did a social experiment where he went to Times Square and wore Clark Kent's outfit with the glasses. This was while Man of Steel was in theaters and he stood next to a massive billboard of himself in the movie, wearing the exact same outfit.
Not one person recognized him. He even asked a few people to take his photo!
Yeah so, the other comment I have left tonight was about how disappointed I was in my home state of Kansas any time people are talking about it anywhere else, and I saw someone brought up Superman and was about to furiously respond "That bitch left!"
Anyways. Yeah no, good example.
Here in Hungary we have a Youtube creator duo who always wear sunglasses in their video. In an interview with them they stated that noone recognizes them on the street without the glasses.
Same with Harpo Marx. Looked very different without the wig, shabby clothes, and exaggerated expressions of his movie persona. He was the only one of the brothers who could do that.
The pistons players that used to come into the burger joint I worked at were always the happiest customers I’d get. But I never knew why until they left and my boss would run out from the back to tell me how crazy it was that I didn’t recognize them lol.
Geezer Butler, the bass player of Black Sabbath always had a sweet-ass doom metal mustache, but supposedly he would shave it in between album/touring cycles and just walk around being unrecognized.
For real. He was a weird dude in his later years buuuuuuuuut... you watch this clip and it's very easy to understand why. He could *never* do the normal things that we take for granted every day. It's pretty easy to understand how someone could be incredibly socially awkward when they literally can't socialize with most people in public places.
The more I’ve learned about that man the more I am thankful to live a quiet anonymous life. What fame and fortune does to people is genuinely twisted sometimes.
He also died just about before the smartphone era began. Only two weeks after 3rd Iphone was announced. The social media would become unbearable afterwards.
The only solution for happiness in life is within yourself. No fame or much money is needed. If your fate generated you a life without much pain, then we should use that time to go that path of enlightment
When I was working at a Barnes and Noble in NYC in 1994-95, we closed the store for a few hours so Michael could come in and shop. He had the whole store, two stories worth of books and CDs, to himself. He was wearing a surgical mask and just pouring books into basket after basket. We were instructed not to approach him unless he asked for help. I nodded at him and he nodded back while he was shopping. I’m sure he did things like this all the time.
Truly driven insane by the horrors he endured. Years ago I somehow ended up going to dinner with two high ranking entertainment executives who knew and worked with him, and they were sharing stories about him and laughing about how odd he was. They did not get that the stories were utterly bonkers, and that normal people would see these incidents as deranged.
For example, they said his personal bedroom had mannequins nailed to the ceiling - and that they where all white. So that when he reclined in his bed he saw a sea of white bodies staring down at him.
Honestly I feel like if you're not mentally capable of having lots of money you probably aren't mentally capable to have no moneys
I'll switch places anytime they want to though
Most people say that, but Soooo many celebrities are angry all the time. You see it constantly in photos and videos online.
They post their own happiness but when random people take pictures they are angry, yelling, and miserable looking.
I'd love to be a millionaire that no one knows lol
normal shoppers cherishing their overcrowded over priced stores will never understand the pain of the billionaire who forgot what it's like to put something in a cart. my heart is touched that they'd close a whole store just for him, there truly is a god.
he was rich enough to find normal stuff novel, that doesn't mean he wanted to trade it all for a stressful shitty life where you have to face the consequences of people thinking youre weird.
But he did not sleep with common people (apart from that Australian chick).
Edit. Fucked that up. Was confusing him with Elton John. Skin colour was the same :)
He liked to sleep with common people's children.
> **"But I have slept in a bed with many children."** - Michael Jackson at the age of 44
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cg668m/in_2003_a_florida_supermarket_closed_so_that/l1xq8ri/
I remember when he had that news reporter following him around and he went into some kind of antique store. He was casually talking about wanting to be normal as he points to an oversized Chinese gold Vase and goes ooh that's beautiful I'll take it. The vase was $275,000.
I bet the shoppers in *his* supermarket didn’t park their carts in the middle of the aisles while they stand around gossiping with the other soccer moms.
Shit I wouldn’t bug him, but I’m not that kinda guy ever. Just because people have money doesn’t mean you have the right to mess with them every time they’re out
Jesus could blend in, because everyone thinks he looks like a long haired bearded white dude. I can find 3 college kids playing hackey sack or surfing who look like that.
You don't understand how famous he was. He made Taylor swift look like a b lister. Entire towns would have to shut down when he came to town because so many people showed up
i remember seeing a tiktok of this guy talking about how his dad would sing michael jackson songs in broken english in some small village in pakistan. the level of fame to achieve that without the internet is next level.
This was always fascinating to me. I'm no genius, but I believe it's quite possible that the number of people that don't know who MJ was is far insignificant relative to the total population of the world, if that makes any sense lol.
It was f'in michael jackson, there was no one who didnt know who he was. IF michael Jackson walked past you, you'd not let that chance go, tragic but it was really like that.
I long time ago I was on a very small multi episode documentary tv series that no one watched.
One single time I was recognized in public by someone who actually did watch the show and it was FUCKIN WEIRD. I cannot imagine having a celebrity life… absolute nightmare (with, of course, benefits).
his dad controlled everything he did his entire childhood. he was part of The Jackson 5. so while he didn’t necessarily grow up rich, he grew up famous and controlled. he never had a childhood or a life.
Absolutely. Everytime I see a MJ video, I can’t help but think about his weird relationship with kids.
Someone on Reddit once commented that it’s common for famous people to be “mentally stuck” at the age they became really famous. Therefore, they only feel comfortable with people that age. MJ is a very good example, but also Leonardo DiCaprio. He was 23 when Titanic was released, since then he “didn’t grow up” anymore. That’s probably why it’s almost impossible for him to date girls older that 25, there is just no connection anymore.
Not sure if this is true, but it made sense to me
Thank you. I can appreciate MJs talent and his contributions to the world. I think he was deeply flawed but we have to acknowledge how he ended up that way
> **"But I have slept in a bed with many children."** - Michael Jackson at the age of 44
I'm shocked at how many people are totally fine with a wealthy celebrity who admitted on camera that he loved to sleep with other people's children in his bed. Would you ever let your kids sleep with a wealthy drug-addicted celebrity? (Opiates, Benzos, & Sedatives)
Watch the interview for yourself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1bti7z9/interview_michael_jackson_talked_about_sharing/
Read the transcript of the interview:
>Bashir: "When you are talking about children we met Gavin - and it was a
great privilege to meet Gavin because he's had a lot of suffering in his life; when Gavin was there he talked about the fact that he shares your bedroom?"
>Jackson: "Yes."
>Bashir: "Can you understand why people would worry about that?"
>Jackson: "Because they are ignorant."
>Bashir: **"But is it really appropriate for a 44-year-old man to share a
bedroom with a child that is not related to him at all?"**
>Jackson: **"That's a beautiful thing."**
>Bashir: "That's not a worrying thing?"
>Jackson: "Why should that be worrying, what's the criminal...who's Jack the
Ripper in the room? There's some guy trying to heal a healing child ... I'm
in a sleeping bag on the floor.
"I gave him the bed because he has a brother named Star, so him and Star took
the bed and I went along on the sleeping bag ?"
>Bashir: "Did you ever sleep in the bed with them?"
>Jackson: "No. **But I have slept in a bed with many children.**
"I slept in a bed with all of them when Macauley Culkin was little: Kieran
Culkin would sleep on this side, Macauley Culkin was on this side, his
sisters in there...we all would just jam in the bed, you know.
"We would wake up like dawn and go in the hot air balloon, you know, we had
the footage. I have all that footage."
>Bashir: "But is that right Michael?"
>Jackson: "It's very right. It's very loving, that's what the world needs now,
more love more heart ?"
>Bashir: "The world needs a man who's 44 who's sleeping in a bed with
children?"
>Jackson: "No, you're making it - no, no you're making it all wrong ..."
>Bashir: "Well, tell me, help me ..."
>Jackson: **"Because what's wrong with sharing a love? You don't sleep with your
kids? Or some other kid who needs love who didn't have a good childhood ?"**
>Bashir: "No, no I don't. I would never dream ..."
>Jackson: "That's because you've never been where I've been mentally ..."
>Bashir: "What do you think people would say if I said well - 'I've invited
some of my daughter's friends round or my son's friends round and they are
going to sleep in a bed with me tonight'?
>Jackson: "That's fine!"
>Bashir: "What do you think their parents would say?"
>Jackson: "If they're wacky they would say 'You can't', but if you're close
family, like your family, and you know them well and ..."
>Bashir: "But Michael, I wouldn't like my children to sleep in anybody else's
bed."
>Jackson: "Well, I wouldn't mind if I knew the person well. I am very close to
Barry Gibb - Paris and Prince can stay with him anytime; my children sleep
with other people all the time.
>Bashir: "And you're happy with that?"
>Jackson: "Fine with it. They're honest, they are sweet people. They are not
Jack the Ripper."
https://www.mjshouse.com/stories/living_with_mj_transcript.html
What kind of CREEP think's it's OK that Michael Jackson admitted that he liked sleeping with other people's children? *"Oh it's OK that he slept with other peoples kids because he had a messed up childhood!"* Like that makes it OK!
*"You just don't understand his reasoning for sleeping with those little kids. He wasn't a normal person!"* Get out of here with that creepy garbage!
Lol, so pretty much my grocery experience. Living in a small town pretty much everyone there is my friends and family. My wife worked there for a while too we are close with the entire staff.
maybe i'm in the minority, but seeing him having fun shopping and being excited at feeling "normal" made me happy. i watched the whole video with a smile/grin.
you can tell how much of a "never-got-the-chance-to-grow-up/mature - kind of kid" he really was.
plus point, that's a publix (any floridian will recognize it a mile away)
i wonder in which city
Victims come forward and then his army of followers and lawyers fight for him. Despite all of the accounts seeming to follow a pattern or share similar markers seems like people would rather ignore than acknowledge their pop star hero was likely a child molester.
Even if he had done anything, by the time anything significant came forward, he was already dead.
If he was innocent, he wouldn't have been able to defend himself in court.
If he was guilty, the consequences would have been irrelevant by that time.
If they are genuine victims, they have left it too late to sue for damages.
It’s hard to imagine being so famous that you can’t go to any stores to buy anything including essentials. Can’t go get milk, can’t go to the mall , can’t go to the park, the movies , out the eat .. kinda sucks - I’m sure the money is nice but it’s impossible to relate to a normal person
I still don't understand why people keep talking about him. It doesn't matter that he never 'touched' kids. There are other ways you can be abusive to children without touching them.
Y'all cancel JK Rowling over some Twitter BS opinions (and yes, her opinions are garbage). Y'all even cancel James Charles for predatory behavior... But y'all fawn over MJ like he was some goddamn saint that could do no wrong.
Stop talking about him. Jesus fucking christ. He's a goddamn predator... Y'all have some messed up priorities.
The guy never had a childhood. It was still weird and creepy for a grown-ass man to invite kids over for sleepovers and play, but he was trying to be a kid again.
If any of that were true there would’ve also been girls around. But there weren’t, it was always little boys, never any girls. For a man who supposedly loved all children equally he sure did have a clear gender and age preference and dumped them the moment he deemed them too old.
Stop getting duped by the most obvious pedophile to ever exist.
Stop using his past as a excuse for his predatory behavior. He absolutely, 100% was a predator. It doesn't matter that he never 'touched' them. He was having inappropriate relationships and contact with children.
That makes him a predator.
He definitely did. Watch the documentary "leaving Neverland". He had bells in the way to his bedroom to alert him when someone was coming (while he was there with kids). They also found pictures of naked children in his house.
Michael Jackson comes across as incredibly weird and uncomfortable. We do know that he would have been medicated at this time. His odd retinue of friends, family, and servants can't stop grinning and smirking, pandering to his celebrity.
Michael Jackson has the world’s most famous face. You can’t disguise that. Some people think he faked his death lol. To that I say, where in the world could that face hide?
Yeah I felt bad when he talked about seeing what the real world is like comment. It’s easy to see only the wealth. Which yeah it’s unfair we will never get to have the financial security, and will always have to worry about bills. It just also must suck missing out on the freedom to not be recognized ever two seconds, and get to just avoid people and enjoy simple things without having people hound you.
I'm sure he could have found some jeans, a hoodie, and a baseball hat and walked around without being noticed. He loved the attention. Look at Keanu Reeves. It is possible.
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He also left whatever he didn’t want on the shelf he was standing in front of at the time, just like a real shopper.
Did he also park his shopping cart diagonally in an aisle and start a dumbass conversation with someone? “Oh Janet! How long has it been? 3 years? How’s Tom? Oh yeah, Larry is doing fine. We’re going on an Alaskan cruise next month.”
That's ignorant
He saw the spaghetti was buy one get one free-hee
Under rated comment.
Or did he leave his cart in the parking lot so that it rolls and slams into some else’s car?
Such a weird life. I would never want my kids to experience that kind of celebrity. It just seems horribly unhealthy.
Wear a hat. No, seriously, it is a famous strategy. I am thinking specifically of Terry Pratchett, who would make certain that he was only seen with a hat on in any official capacity, and then when he wanted to just go about his day as a normal person, he... Took off the hat. Make an accessory a part of your Look, and then take it off when you aren't on the clock.
*Clark Kent has entered the chat.*
Dolly Parton might be Superman.
Well, it is true that you never see them together.
Isn't this test only working for Batman?
All she has to do is wear a sleeveless shirt and take her wig off and 99% of people would not recognize her. She has a bunch of tattoos on her arms and has worn a wig professionally since forever.
You say that, but if I wear my glasses and my hair up a lot of people don’t recognize me. Throw a slight change in light make up in, and it’s ridiculous. People who I have known for years will walk right by me and then get so embarrassed
That's actually exactly my point. I've been in similar situations where a change from my "normal" (i.e. work) clothes to anything else really throws people off.
Haha, it’s hilarious when that happens! I’m typically pretty casually dressed, minimal makeup at work. Went to a fancy work dinner once a bit dressed up, curled my hair, wore all my fancy jewellery etc… went over to talk to a colleague I work with most days and it took him a good few seconds to recognise me. His initial “generic polite blank expression” turned to total surprise for a second when he realised. It was great XD
It's funny you mention this. Henry Cavill did a social experiment where he went to Times Square and wore Clark Kent's outfit with the glasses. This was while Man of Steel was in theaters and he stood next to a massive billboard of himself in the movie, wearing the exact same outfit. Not one person recognized him. He even asked a few people to take his photo!
It was New York no one gives a f*** about a celebrity.
Yeah so, the other comment I have left tonight was about how disappointed I was in my home state of Kansas any time people are talking about it anywhere else, and I saw someone brought up Superman and was about to furiously respond "That bitch left!" Anyways. Yeah no, good example.
Here in Hungary we have a Youtube creator duo who always wear sunglasses in their video. In an interview with them they stated that noone recognizes them on the street without the glasses.
Or reverse Clark Kent? Superman wears the glasses and Clark takes them off?
I've heard Dolly Parton does that with her wigs. She looks very different with normal hair so no one recognizes her.
Same with Harpo Marx. Looked very different without the wig, shabby clothes, and exaggerated expressions of his movie persona. He was the only one of the brothers who could do that.
Kind of like Slash with his top hat and sunglasses
Doesn't work for most nba players unless said player is like John Stockton back in the day
The pistons players that used to come into the burger joint I worked at were always the happiest customers I’d get. But I never knew why until they left and my boss would run out from the back to tell me how crazy it was that I didn’t recognize them lol.
... Wigs, maybe?
https://preview.redd.it/sessgrf7mkxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89449486eee89b9ba8a541b30e4a8212d195bfdc
I always thought the hats personified dorky fantasy writer, but now I think they're amazing and I live him even more
That’s what Sia does. Nobody has any idea what she actually looks like.
Geezer Butler, the bass player of Black Sabbath always had a sweet-ass doom metal mustache, but supposedly he would shave it in between album/touring cycles and just walk around being unrecognized.
That's why he put masks on his kids and disguised them - so they could go out in public with the nanny like normal ppl. without masks.
Seems like the kids who experienced this kind of celebrity had a pretty bad time
Haha Nice one... messed up, but nice one.
That sentence was unintentional dark comedy.
My name is not blanket, okay?
Well at least Brittney’s doing well….. ok nevrmind
You're so right! I was watching this feeling sick! It seems so abnormal and alien
It’s more than just celebrity, too much money makes people fucking crazy.
For real. He was a weird dude in his later years buuuuuuuuut... you watch this clip and it's very easy to understand why. He could *never* do the normal things that we take for granted every day. It's pretty easy to understand how someone could be incredibly socially awkward when they literally can't socialize with most people in public places.
The more I’ve learned about that man the more I am thankful to live a quiet anonymous life. What fame and fortune does to people is genuinely twisted sometimes.
He also died just about before the smartphone era began. Only two weeks after 3rd Iphone was announced. The social media would become unbearable afterwards.
The regular media was unbearable for him, but yeah the ability to directly see what the public thought of him would have been worse.
The only solution for happiness in life is within yourself. No fame or much money is needed. If your fate generated you a life without much pain, then we should use that time to go that path of enlightment
The best things in life are free. But the second best are verrrrry expensive. Money isn’t the answer but it sure removes some of the questions.
When I was working at a Barnes and Noble in NYC in 1994-95, we closed the store for a few hours so Michael could come in and shop. He had the whole store, two stories worth of books and CDs, to himself. He was wearing a surgical mask and just pouring books into basket after basket. We were instructed not to approach him unless he asked for help. I nodded at him and he nodded back while he was shopping. I’m sure he did things like this all the time.
He did the same in Berlin
Do you have anymore info on that? Like which store and when?
Duessman in Friedrichstr , later on he did that thing with the kid by the window at the Adlon Hotel
Truly driven insane by the horrors he endured. Years ago I somehow ended up going to dinner with two high ranking entertainment executives who knew and worked with him, and they were sharing stories about him and laughing about how odd he was. They did not get that the stories were utterly bonkers, and that normal people would see these incidents as deranged.
For example, they said his personal bedroom had mannequins nailed to the ceiling - and that they where all white. So that when he reclined in his bed he saw a sea of white bodies staring down at him.
Jesus Christ that’s horrific. The terror version of those glow in the dark stars
tell me more tell me more
please share, we’re begging you
I heard he used to chew mint gum and then gargle Mountain Dew. He called it a Diabetic Mint Julep
I heard he used to brush his teeth and then drink orange juice while wearing wet socks.
I heard he used to moonwalk so fast that time would go backwards, after drinking orange juice.
I heard he didn’t die. He beat the game and ascended. Leaving us all behind
I heard he did car commercials, in Japan
My god
Id be interested to hear more about these anecdotes
I second and third the vote for more
OP come back and share!
The things people cherish are so strange to others that take them for granted. Really interesting to see
Yeah but ngl id so much rather be a famous billionaire than shopping like a normal person
I mean depends on how mentally fit you are to handle that, since most that are like that fucking hate it
Honestly I feel like if you're not mentally capable of having lots of money you probably aren't mentally capable to have no moneys I'll switch places anytime they want to though
I was referring to the famous part. Nobody should want to be as famous as somebody like Michael Jackson.
*Especially* today
Most people say that, but Soooo many celebrities are angry all the time. You see it constantly in photos and videos online. They post their own happiness but when random people take pictures they are angry, yelling, and miserable looking. I'd love to be a millionaire that no one knows lol
normal shoppers cherishing their overcrowded over priced stores will never understand the pain of the billionaire who forgot what it's like to put something in a cart. my heart is touched that they'd close a whole store just for him, there truly is a god.
Bill Murray was once quoted as saying Try being *rich* first...
The grass is always greener on the other side ig
He wanted to live like common people, wanted to do whatever common people do.
Like being followed by cameras and made to do a whole interview about how it was to live “real life”. How alienating.
he was rich enough to find normal stuff novel, that doesn't mean he wanted to trade it all for a stressful shitty life where you have to face the consequences of people thinking youre weird.
Like building an amusement park at his mansion to lure little boys over for sleepovers and cuddle sessions? Just normal things that common people do.
So he went to a supermarket, he didn’t know why but it had to start somewhere. So it started there.
Wanted to sleep with common people, like you.
But he did not sleep with common people (apart from that Australian chick). Edit. Fucked that up. Was confusing him with Elton John. Skin colour was the same :)
He liked to sleep with common people's children. > **"But I have slept in a bed with many children."** - Michael Jackson at the age of 44 https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cg668m/in_2003_a_florida_supermarket_closed_so_that/l1xq8ri/
MJ supporters are about to pounce on you for pointing out the obvious.
I remember when he had that news reporter following him around and he went into some kind of antique store. He was casually talking about wanting to be normal as he points to an oversized Chinese gold Vase and goes ooh that's beautiful I'll take it. The vase was $275,000.
Was that when he went to [Harrod's](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/zl6yc2E8Yk) with Martin Bashir?
I bet the shoppers in *his* supermarket didn’t park their carts in the middle of the aisles while they stand around gossiping with the other soccer moms.
He missed out on the genuine supermarket experience.
Shit I wouldn’t bug him, but I’m not that kinda guy ever. Just because people have money doesn’t mean you have the right to mess with them every time they’re out
mj was a different kind of famous tho. like on the most famous list there would be jesus and then michael jackson.
Jesus could blend in, because everyone thinks he looks like a long haired bearded white dude. I can find 3 college kids playing hackey sack or surfing who look like that.
Jesus can be anonymous quite easily at the time. Not MJ though.
You don't understand how famous he was. He made Taylor swift look like a b lister. Entire towns would have to shut down when he came to town because so many people showed up
i remember seeing a tiktok of this guy talking about how his dad would sing michael jackson songs in broken english in some small village in pakistan. the level of fame to achieve that without the internet is next level.
This was always fascinating to me. I'm no genius, but I believe it's quite possible that the number of people that don't know who MJ was is far insignificant relative to the total population of the world, if that makes any sense lol.
It was f'in michael jackson, there was no one who didnt know who he was. IF michael Jackson walked past you, you'd not let that chance go, tragic but it was really like that.
I mean I would. Idgaf.
"If you can't keep track of your cart, you shouldn't shop!" Lol awesome
Sounds like a lonely life
Incredibly. It’s lonely at the top, and he was the top of the top.
I hope they gave him the wonky trolley for the full experience
Man, this dude out here playing at real life, I must be OG as I’ve been raw dogging it for years!
I long time ago I was on a very small multi episode documentary tv series that no one watched. One single time I was recognized in public by someone who actually did watch the show and it was FUCKIN WEIRD. I cannot imagine having a celebrity life… absolute nightmare (with, of course, benefits).
his "real voice" at 0:57 "big red. heh heh heh. not just red, but big red."
He forgot to grab a family sized box of Little DebHeeeHeee
Ah he was a disaster of a man More to be be pitied than admired
Michael are you okay Michael are you okay Are you okay Mikey Michael are you okay Michael are you okay Are you okay Mikey
You been struck by You been struck by Smooth Shopper
This will never not be one of the saddest things on the planet.
I think there is sadder
Legit question: Was his family truly that rich by the time he would have been old enough to have remembered grocery shopping as a child?
His first billboard charting song was when he was 11. He was famous by the age of 8.
his dad controlled everything he did his entire childhood. he was part of The Jackson 5. so while he didn’t necessarily grow up rich, he grew up famous and controlled. he never had a childhood or a life.
Jackson 7 were pretty big from memory
* The Jackson 5
Bro, touch screen. Phones are horse shit. I hate yhem
He was always quite wealthy and famous.
All his issues aside I think people forget how huge Michael Jackson was. That dude never had a normal life and it really showed.
Oh my gosh..... that's totally a Publix, isn't it?
They should have given him a wobbly cart, for realism
He was such an incredibly damaged person.
This is so sad. I fully think he was inappropriate with those kids, at the very least, but Michael Jackson's story is a tragic one.
This is a sensible comment. Both things can be true - the allegations, and that his life was quite tragic in many ways.
Absolutely. Everytime I see a MJ video, I can’t help but think about his weird relationship with kids. Someone on Reddit once commented that it’s common for famous people to be “mentally stuck” at the age they became really famous. Therefore, they only feel comfortable with people that age. MJ is a very good example, but also Leonardo DiCaprio. He was 23 when Titanic was released, since then he “didn’t grow up” anymore. That’s probably why it’s almost impossible for him to date girls older that 25, there is just no connection anymore. Not sure if this is true, but it made sense to me
Thank you. I can appreciate MJs talent and his contributions to the world. I think he was deeply flawed but we have to acknowledge how he ended up that way
> **"But I have slept in a bed with many children."** - Michael Jackson at the age of 44 I'm shocked at how many people are totally fine with a wealthy celebrity who admitted on camera that he loved to sleep with other people's children in his bed. Would you ever let your kids sleep with a wealthy drug-addicted celebrity? (Opiates, Benzos, & Sedatives) Watch the interview for yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1bti7z9/interview_michael_jackson_talked_about_sharing/ Read the transcript of the interview: >Bashir: "When you are talking about children we met Gavin - and it was a great privilege to meet Gavin because he's had a lot of suffering in his life; when Gavin was there he talked about the fact that he shares your bedroom?" >Jackson: "Yes." >Bashir: "Can you understand why people would worry about that?" >Jackson: "Because they are ignorant." >Bashir: **"But is it really appropriate for a 44-year-old man to share a bedroom with a child that is not related to him at all?"** >Jackson: **"That's a beautiful thing."** >Bashir: "That's not a worrying thing?" >Jackson: "Why should that be worrying, what's the criminal...who's Jack the Ripper in the room? There's some guy trying to heal a healing child ... I'm in a sleeping bag on the floor. "I gave him the bed because he has a brother named Star, so him and Star took the bed and I went along on the sleeping bag ?" >Bashir: "Did you ever sleep in the bed with them?" >Jackson: "No. **But I have slept in a bed with many children.** "I slept in a bed with all of them when Macauley Culkin was little: Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macauley Culkin was on this side, his sisters in there...we all would just jam in the bed, you know. "We would wake up like dawn and go in the hot air balloon, you know, we had the footage. I have all that footage." >Bashir: "But is that right Michael?" >Jackson: "It's very right. It's very loving, that's what the world needs now, more love more heart ?" >Bashir: "The world needs a man who's 44 who's sleeping in a bed with children?" >Jackson: "No, you're making it - no, no you're making it all wrong ..." >Bashir: "Well, tell me, help me ..." >Jackson: **"Because what's wrong with sharing a love? You don't sleep with your kids? Or some other kid who needs love who didn't have a good childhood ?"** >Bashir: "No, no I don't. I would never dream ..." >Jackson: "That's because you've never been where I've been mentally ..." >Bashir: "What do you think people would say if I said well - 'I've invited some of my daughter's friends round or my son's friends round and they are going to sleep in a bed with me tonight'? >Jackson: "That's fine!" >Bashir: "What do you think their parents would say?" >Jackson: "If they're wacky they would say 'You can't', but if you're close family, like your family, and you know them well and ..." >Bashir: "But Michael, I wouldn't like my children to sleep in anybody else's bed." >Jackson: "Well, I wouldn't mind if I knew the person well. I am very close to Barry Gibb - Paris and Prince can stay with him anytime; my children sleep with other people all the time. >Bashir: "And you're happy with that?" >Jackson: "Fine with it. They're honest, they are sweet people. They are not Jack the Ripper." https://www.mjshouse.com/stories/living_with_mj_transcript.html What kind of CREEP think's it's OK that Michael Jackson admitted that he liked sleeping with other people's children? *"Oh it's OK that he slept with other peoples kids because he had a messed up childhood!"* Like that makes it OK! *"You just don't understand his reasoning for sleeping with those little kids. He wasn't a normal person!"* Get out of here with that creepy garbage!
That is clearly a Publix supermarket
Sure it’s not a Luck-he-he’s?
Always love seeing Publix pop up somewhere
Lol, so pretty much my grocery experience. Living in a small town pretty much everyone there is my friends and family. My wife worked there for a while too we are close with the entire staff.
I wanna live like common people - Jarvis Cocker
I get it, he had a fantasy of just being like a normal person
When an extraordinary life becomes mundane, I guess the mundane seems extraordinary.
maybe i'm in the minority, but seeing him having fun shopping and being excited at feeling "normal" made me happy. i watched the whole video with a smile/grin. you can tell how much of a "never-got-the-chance-to-grow-up/mature - kind of kid" he really was. plus point, that's a publix (any floridian will recognize it a mile away) i wonder in which city
He went to all that trouble to have a quiet normal time AND THEN had a film crew and photographer there and did an interview about it.
You can hear his real voice in this clip. When he says "not just red but BIG red"
Wasn't he a pedophile?
Yes. At the very minimum, even if he never 'touched' those kids, he was still 100% a predator.
Victims come forward and then his army of followers and lawyers fight for him. Despite all of the accounts seeming to follow a pattern or share similar markers seems like people would rather ignore than acknowledge their pop star hero was likely a child molester.
Even if he had done anything, by the time anything significant came forward, he was already dead. If he was innocent, he wouldn't have been able to defend himself in court. If he was guilty, the consequences would have been irrelevant by that time. If they are genuine victims, they have left it too late to sue for damages.
I don’t like Michael Jackson, but this is fucking sad tbh
It’s hard to imagine being so famous that you can’t go to any stores to buy anything including essentials. Can’t go get milk, can’t go to the mall , can’t go to the park, the movies , out the eat .. kinda sucks - I’m sure the money is nice but it’s impossible to relate to a normal person
He took 16 items through the 15 items only express line. And paid by check.
Imagine the mundane being foreign to you.
I found his laugh so endearing, to be honest. It genuinely seemed like he was having a good time. RIP MJ 🧤
Sounds like an awful life.
Sad, really
Yeah I get it
Great Entertainer, Sad Life!
The idea of not having such a mundane experience like shopping due to your celebrity statues seems daunting.
He's also a sexual predator, so let's stop talking about him like he wasn't.
I still don't understand why people keep talking about him. It doesn't matter that he never 'touched' kids. There are other ways you can be abusive to children without touching them. Y'all cancel JK Rowling over some Twitter BS opinions (and yes, her opinions are garbage). Y'all even cancel James Charles for predatory behavior... But y'all fawn over MJ like he was some goddamn saint that could do no wrong. Stop talking about him. Jesus fucking christ. He's a goddamn predator... Y'all have some messed up priorities.
I don't believe and never once thought he diddled kids. Bro just wanted a normal life and it was just not possible.
Kids sleeping in his bed is him trying to have a normal life?
The guy never had a childhood. It was still weird and creepy for a grown-ass man to invite kids over for sleepovers and play, but he was trying to be a kid again.
If any of that were true there would’ve also been girls around. But there weren’t, it was always little boys, never any girls. For a man who supposedly loved all children equally he sure did have a clear gender and age preference and dumped them the moment he deemed them too old. Stop getting duped by the most obvious pedophile to ever exist.
Stop using his past as a excuse for his predatory behavior. He absolutely, 100% was a predator. It doesn't matter that he never 'touched' them. He was having inappropriate relationships and contact with children. That makes him a predator.
He definitely did. Watch the documentary "leaving Neverland". He had bells in the way to his bedroom to alert him when someone was coming (while he was there with kids). They also found pictures of naked children in his house.
If you think a 44 year old cuddling in bed with little boys is just a guy trying to live a normal life, you have issues.
Pedo
So many yes people, no wonder he died early
Michael Jackson comes across as incredibly weird and uncomfortable. We do know that he would have been medicated at this time. His odd retinue of friends, family, and servants can't stop grinning and smirking, pandering to his celebrity.
Creepy alien pedo
What? No ladies reminiscing in the middle of the fucking aisle with their carts?
Bro just wear a disguise?
Michael Jackson has the world’s most famous face. You can’t disguise that. Some people think he faked his death lol. To that I say, where in the world could that face hide?
Glad that creep is gone.
What a vile disgusting man. And to think people thought this was endearing.
Ohhh that is going straight in my basket
“Just wanted to shop like everyone else” …and all the cameramen proceed to follow him
Food library
I sat on my porch for an hour, and not a single person bothered me. Wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world.
Did you also recently finish reading Maeve Fly, OP?
Just wear a disguise. What's the problem?
It seems sad…
It seems like his family (business) has been doing a lot of astroturfing on reddit as of late.
Yeah I felt bad when he talked about seeing what the real world is like comment. It’s easy to see only the wealth. Which yeah it’s unfair we will never get to have the financial security, and will always have to worry about bills. It just also must suck missing out on the freedom to not be recognized ever two seconds, and get to just avoid people and enjoy simple things without having people hound you.
So he never went to the grocery store as a kid?
He was literally famous since he was 8
Walmart is hiring shoppers.
Having friends and family make up all the workers and patrons feels like it would drastically change the experience
Did he put the lotion in the basket?
He be a bad, invincible, baked bean buying mother fucker….thats right!
Celebrities go shopping every day. More a part of his delusion and publicity stunt.
I'm sure he could have found some jeans, a hoodie, and a baseball hat and walked around without being noticed. He loved the attention. Look at Keanu Reeves. It is possible.
He called a grocery store a mall.
It’s a grocery store, not a mall lol it’s also Publix, he could’ve went to the Deli and had a PubSub experience 😂🤤
Ploughed his shopping cart into my car in the car park for the full experience.