Michael Jackson’s Untold Story beyond the Michael Jackson movie | The Childhood He Never Got To Live D
Michael Jackson was greatest entertainer who ever lived. He sold out stadiums on every continent, won eight Grammy Awards in a single night, and yet he always was a little boy who wanted his childhood back. Michael was 5 years old when his father first put him on a stage. Joe sat at every rehearsal himself. 5 hours a day.
Every mistake was corrected immediately. The children called him Joseph, not dad. He demanded that. By 7, Michael was performing in nightclubs. In his own words, “I grew up in nightclubs. I saw fights break out. I saw people throw up on each other. That was my childhood.” There was a park across the street from the Motown studio.
He wrote about it in his autobiography. “I can remember looking at those kids playing games. I’d stare at them and wonder. I’d wish more than anything that I had that kind of freedom.” He never got it. By 13, he became the biggest pop star on the planet. While other kids had slumber parties and friends, Michael Jackson was on a world tour.
He once said, “I put mannequins in my room because I was painfully lonely. I would walk up to strangers and say, ‘Will you be my friend?’ They’d say, ‘Oh my god, it’s Michael Jackson.’ And that was never what I wanted.” In 1988, he spent $17 million on a 2,700 acre estate. He named it Neverland. After the boy who never grows up.
It had a Ferris wheel, a petting zoo, a private cinema, and a train he named Katherine, after his mother. His sister LaToya wrote, “Neverland was a living fairytale. Michael created it to finally have a normal childhood. He once told a friend, ‘If it weren’t for children, I would choose death. I wanted to perform so well that people would love me back.
He did all not for fame, but for love. Joe Jackson said years later, “Look what I came out with. Kids that everybody loved all over the world.” He was right and he was completely wrong. He came out with the greatest entertainer in human history who spent every dollar he ever made trying to buy back the one thing money cannot buy, a childhood.
Born in a two-bedroom house in Gary, Indiana with nothing, died as the most famous entertainer who ever lived.
