Michael & me
By Carrie • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: NewsHello to one and all!
Tis I! Your intermittent blogmeister, back to provide you with inside information on The Late Michael Jackson. I was friendly with Michael. I believe that he considered us to be friends.
Micheal Jackson reading Carrie Fisher's Whishul Drinking
I visited him over the Christmas holiday at that weirdly expensive rental home somewhere here in Southern Cal. What’s odd is that I see fans laying flowers in front of homes that I don’t think Michael ever lived in. But then this whole scene is odd.
Here’s the thing though—–I saw Michael multiple times with his children and thought that he was a very good father. Not only based on seeing him with his children, but also based on his children themselves. They are very well behaved, respectful children, who seemed content in Michael’s company. I mean, I doubt if Michael cooked for them or parented them in ways that might be considered conventional, but you could see how much he loved them and how much they loved him. I do NOT believe that Michael did anything untoward to not only his children, but to any other child. He was a child himself. I never in any way viewed him as someone who was capable of doing what they accused him of doing. He was devoted to his family and doted on them. In a town where you more often see children of celebrities with their nannys and in the care of others, I never saw anything like that with Michael and his children. I would say he was a hands on parent, but with the press and some of the public being as they are, I wouldn’t want to say anything that could be interpreted in any way other than the loving scene that I observed between his 3 children and himself. And I stand to gain nothing in stating this.
Michael was one of the sweetest souls I’ve ever encountered. He was generous and polite. And where you might expect to see children that were pampered and spoiled, his children showed none of this.
I don’t believe that Arnie Klein is the father of these children. Why would he do that? He might as well just adopt 3 kids, rather than arrange a situaion where he was not the father. I realize these children don’t resemble him mightily, but I there must be some other explanation other than someone else fathered these children. Michael was eccentric, no doubt. But he was no fool.
My favorite news program that I’ve seen regarding this whole scene is a program that asked the question, “Are there too many programs on Michael’s death and who will gain custody of his children…….”
Anyway, there you have it. For now. I’ll let you know of any other insights I am privy to as we go along. If I can.
Aside from that, I’m fine. (whatever that means!) Tomorrow we go to Berkeley to do my show for two weeks to prepare for Broadway. Perhaps I will seek custody of Michaels children, depending on how things develop………
Unless you have some other suggestions. Everyone else seems to want to weigh in on it……..
Marry me,
Carrie
break a leg for the show…. won’t it be odd going back to the same venue to do a show? i find it odd even when it’s going back to the same venue with a DIFFERENT show!! but then maybe that’s cos my brain thinks it’s still the old show!
although i guess you kind of know what to expect from a berkeley audience now, which has to be a bonus.
hope it all goes well and any changed you’ve made since the last time go down well, and that this time round you can actually find the way back to your dressing room….
Great to see you post again. I never was a huge fan of Michael Jackson’s but I did enjoy his music, I think most of us who grew up in the 80s were. He was an amazing performer and he will be missed.
Break several legs in Berkley, I keep telling my friend who lives in that area to go see the show for me (since I can’t go). I keep crossing my fingers in hopes that I can make it to NYC when you’re on B’way.
Carrie,
It’s Bonny in Denver. I saw you last improvising for this show you were going to write that is now heading for Browdway. Break-a-leg in Berkeley. I wish I was there. There is this guy in Oakland I’m curious about. Some things don’t change even in 35 years. I hope your ECT has not erased me. That hair around your ears should remind you.
I was just catching up on your blogs when I saw this post come on. I expected you to have something to post in memory of Michael Jackson. Maybe you can help his children to write journals. It’s sad how many close loves Elizabeth Taylor has lost. This year I have been lead to my heritage of Chabad Lubavitcher. The 15th yarzheit of the great and loving Rebbe Schneersohn was on June 25th this year. As thousands of the Chabad gathered saying their prayers fans from many audiences over the world were learning of the passing of Farrah and Michael. A sure sign two more angels moonwalked to heaven.
Keep writing and I’ll keep reading,
Bonny
Well, I can say that I too think there has been too much about Michael Jackson’s death on TV. They just cannot leave him alone.
As for marrying you, well, I would have to have a prenup. I would hate to lose that condo I have in Kansas.
love the photo!!
As always so happy to read your blog, Carrie. Thank you for sharing your experiences with Michael Jackson and his children. It was so nice to read your thoughts about how Michael would never hurt a child. You know that Whoopi Goldberg on The View said something very similar. She never saw anything and never believed Michael hurt any child. Enjoy the Berkeley shows. Saw and loved you in Boston and hope to get to the Broadway Wishful Drinking.
Take good care…
Thanks for your thoughts on Michael Jackson. It is good to hear from someone who actually knew him. Good luck in Oakland. My hometown is Vallejo…across the bridge. Wish I could see your show, but I now live in Arkansas. I read your book and loved it…also, love your Mom…follow both of your careers. Signed….a fan.
More disappointment…so many of the people I respected had these little hidden “home alters” in their lives with MJ enshrined upon them. Carrie I thought you, who seem so diligent at disavowing the “entertainment cult” of this society would have avoided comment on this. “Namedropping” becomes noone. Anyway, Im sure MJ wasnt guilty of any of the things which he was accused of, but then I believe OJ was innocent too because he wasnt convicted. Anyway, “Let the dead bury their own dead,” do you who said that once long ago? Dave.
In fact speaking of feeding this rediculous “entertainment cult” is there something redeeming in taking your show on the road to the two areas of the country which are most out of touch with reality (Art for Arhtur’s sake)? I suppose its the same as the “education cult’s” need to impress only those in their own Ivory towers and never make anything actually “walk on all fours”. Well Orville, I hope it flies, then I hope you can make it fly in the real world. Dave.
Hi Carrie!
Been missing your blog. So glad to see you again! I wish i could make it out to Berkeley to see your show. Alas, it is not in the stars this time. I keep hoping maybe after your Broadway run you’ll make your way to Texas??
when someone takes you up on the marriage offer, gimme a call. I’d be happy to do the ceremony for you!
Love and hugs,
G
I wish you would blog more often!!! I love your insights. I definitely would love to know more mundane daily things you take on with your twist of words on them… Wish I could see your show. Best of health and luck to you!
[...] Wars icon turned author Carrie Fisher took to her blog to discuss her feelings for the late Michael Jackson and his role as a father and [...]
[...] Wars icon turned author Carrie Fisher took to her blog to discuss her feelings for the late Michael Jackson and his role as a father and [...]
Thank you, Carrie, for such a sweet and clear picture of the MJ you knew. It’s refreshing! Hope I get to come over and see yer Berkeley show. Perhaps I’ll bring flowers and propose… would you be interested in marrying a nun?
xo, Sister Mable Syrup
Sweetie, I’d marry you in a heartbeat.
It kills me that I missed you when you were here in Seattle but from what I’ve seen, with each performance you hone both the show and your performance so perfectly that you and it will be a razor by the time you get to Broadway and I have no doubt you’ll be slashing throats nightly.
Have fun in Berkeley.
-Dennis
[...] Wars icon turned author Carrie Fisher took to her blog to discuss her feelings for the late Michael Jackson and his role as a father and [...]
[...] Wars icon turned author Carrie Fisher took to her blog to discuss her feelings for the late Michael Jackson and his role as a father and [...]
I’ll marry you in heartbeat. Glad to have found this site.
Carrie,
Thank you for a wonderful tribute to Michael. I’m very touched by your words.
Sarah T
[...] Wars icon turned author Carrie Fisher took to her blog to discuss her feelings for the late Michael Jackson and his role as a father and [...]
Michael Jackson & I were born on the same day. That alone was enough of a connection for me to follow his life with unusual interest. And now I just feel weird. And sad.
Please consider taking your show to San Antonio, Texas. Happy trails to you.
Hold me,
Judy
Nicely said, Carrie. Break a leg. Can’t wait to see the show!
Micheal was an incredible musician and performer. His demeanor (at least from what I saw in the interviews) was humble, tender and gracious. These qualities are rarely found in most people, let alone international superstars and I always found that incredible. He is loved many and will be missed.
I would also like to offer you my profound heartfelt gratitude for your incredible books. I a 27 year old bipolar, sociophobe, mother, musician and writer. Living with mental illness is hard enough but I also feel extremely alienated from most people a lot of the time. When I try to make jokes about how “sick” I am people can’t decide whether to laugh cautiously or smile, nod and pat me on the head like a child who’d just blurted something totally inappropriate and embarrassed their parents. Haha….
I finally read Wishful Drinking and to hear someone else talk about living with mental illness humorously is such a breath of fresh air. The more people that open up and tell their stories shamelessly, the faster we can erase the ignorance and stigma. Every person that isn’t afraid to speak up makes it a little easier for someone else to find the courage to break the silence. Wishful Drinking has inspired me to start writing a book about my own experiences because I honestly think most anyone with this illness has at least SOME fucking ridiculous and entertaining stories to tell. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for speaking out and making me laugh so hard I peed my pants a little.
As for as the marriage part, yes. Do you prefer Massachusetts, Connecticut or Iowa?
Too real to be sick and too sick to be real,
Ash
[...] Fisher posted the following on her official website: [...]
July 7th, 2009
Ms. Fisher,
The warmth you express for the late Mr. Jackson comes across as genuine. You confirmed my thoughts concerning the kind of parent he was. Thank you for sharing your personal insights.
I read your last publication, “Wishful Drinking” yesterday afternoon. Again, thank you for sharing your most personal and intimate memories with others. Your work in educating others concerning mental health issues is extremely important.
I am looking forward to seeing your show in the City in the fall. I’ll be the middle-aged man with a smile on my lips and empathy in my heart.
Marry me,
Bill
thanks for posting this. I’ve known several people over the years who worked with MJ extensively, and they all said the same thing — that they didn’t believe he was capable of what folks had accused him of.
love your blogs. keep writin’!
Carrie, I just started reading your blog & find it very interesting. I always enjoyed your turn of a phrase & “Celebrity is obscurity biding it’s time” I found quite appropriate this weekend. Went to see “Public Enemies” & toward the end a waitress shows up who looks very familiar. It was a small role & not too important to the plot. Turns out it was Leelee Sobieski, an IT girl from 10 years ago. Your phrase fits perfectly. On another note, people say things out loud to celebrities they wouldn’t say to their worst enemy(including critics) so think of them as if they were your mother when you were your daughters’ age & say to yourself “Mom isn’t it time for you to back to the set now”.
I was so sorry to hear about Michael’s passing, but I think the media needs to back off! It sickens me to see all the people on television who were close to Michael who are now all over the television talking about how they knew he was doing something unhealthy and didn’t say anything to the media then because they were his friends. I hope I never die, ’cause if all your friends do is spill your secrets after you’re dead…well, I don’t want to give them the chance.
I’m very happy to hear your positive story about Michael. And, break a leg in Berkley! XOXO-Natasha
Carrie, you are amazing inside and out.
As someone who knew M.J. up close and personal [as much as possible anyhow], you’d know better than any of us ‘lookers on’.
I won’t re-hash the sordid details of the things M.J. did do with young children, singled out alone in his bed [witnesses de facto], but, you have to remember Christina Crawford’s memoirs and how many Hollywood people actually vindicated her story by corroborating it.
Judge not, lest ye be judged? I betta shaddup! I ain’t no angel.
As for YOU, miss gorgeous, pretty thang, you!
Get plenty of REST. For sleep? I’ve found that taking L-tryptophan coupled with a B-Complex capsule does the trick. For energy in the day, I take a B-vitamin with L-Tyrosine for energy in the day time. B-vitamins are so crucial for well-being and inner harmony. I’ve noticed a HUGE boost in my overall mood [less depression] when I take my B’s. I’ve had depression all of my life [I even remember severe depression as far back as when I was five years of age]. I think the key is loving yourself and self-acceptance. I had so much self-hatred towards myself growing up, I was the ‘geek’ or the ‘ugly’ one or the ‘chubby’ one or the ‘poor’ one ad infinitum. As I blossomed into the ’swan’ from the ‘ugly duckling’, I saw how quickly people changed their attitudes towards me.
Where do we go from ‘here’?
It’s always sad when a little spark of magic leaves the world.
The media seemed determined to demonize him for what may well have been simply a refusal to stop believing in magic, and grow up, whatever that’s supposed to mean. The World doesn’t seem to approve of retaining a sense of wonder after puberty.
Glad to hear something positive about him as a human being.
Before you say that Michael would not molest any child, maybe you should read the child’s affidavit at : thesmokinggun.com .
Berry Gordy was right when he said at the service: ” Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer who ever lived.” That being said, I do believe the first case was true and that is why he paid $22 million dollars to settle it. I think the second case was a farce, but he put himself in a vulnerable position by CONTINUING to allow children to sleep in his bed, even AFTER he had been accused of doing that very thing while molesting children. And remember, those were not the only accusations against Michael Jackson. He paid off SEVERAL children’s families for molesting their sons. The molested kids were never black and all of them were between the ages of 9 and 12. Once they got pubic hair, he was done with them. I know the world has lost a superstar but we can’t excuse his actions because of his fame. I met Michael Jackson and he seemed wonderful on the outside, but as a criminal defense attorney I can state, so do a lot of my clients. I pray that God forgives him for any wrong-doing he may have done and that he rests in peace.
Thank you for posting this, with all the crazy press it is nice to simply read a friend’s take on Michael Jackson, you honored him and his memory in doing that. Which is what a real friend does.
I know someone (doesn’t everyone in Hollywood?) who grew up right by the Jackson family home in Encino. One day when he was little, he had a lemonade stand. And who comes by, but Michael. He talked for some time, and my friend said that Michael wasn’t creepy or anything. Looking back, he got the vibe that he just loved speaking to children. Probably because they were some of the only people in the world who wouldn’t want something from him. I always thought that of him. And I am the most skeptical person in the world. 9 times out of ten, I’ll believe the worst in people. Which is quite sad, I guess. But I never bought the charges against him. Was he a little misguided and overzealous in his friendships with some kids? Sure. But I just don’t think he saw children in a sexual manner. And what parent accepts money from the person that abuses their child? Ugh.
I went down to his star on the Walk of Fame the day after he died. What a circus! But some of it was touching, seeing people dancing and singing in the street. Right next to the people selling bootleg memorial shirts. When his daughter Paris spoke at the memorial today, it broke my heart. I think people tend to lose sight of the fact that first and foremost, he was a father.
Oh, and yes, I will marry you. But I am a girl and so are you, and that is not legal here in California. So you are off the hook.
Hope you had safe travels!
xo,
Ericka
[...] Fisher took to her blog to write about her friend, the late Michael [...]
I guess I’m too old and jaded to get to vaclempt(probably spelled wrong, not much call for spell check on yiddish words in West, Texas) over the deaths of singers, actors, etc. Although I did cry like a baby when Randolph Scott died. Since I didn’t know MIchael I can’t say I’ll miss him, and his music will be around if I want to hear him. Plus it’s hard to feel sorry for some one that had it all and still managed to kill himself with drugs..Every time I hear the expression enabler I get pissed…every one has choices to make in their life…and to do or not do drugs is a personal choice and wish people would just except responsibilities for their own actions…thus said…have a good run doing what you do…It is good to know he was a good father, as thats probably what he should be known for.
There’s been a lot of mixed opinions and feelings expressed among my circle of friends and family about this, as there has been everywhere. I enjoyed his music, though I never paid much attention to his life or character beyond that, and had only a very vague idea from a few pictures seen or snippets of news heard of the sometimes strange ways in which he seemed to live over the course of his life. If I had any feelings about MJ, I suppose they were ambivalent.
And yet, when I heard the news from a clerk in a shopping mall (as soon as I realized it wasn’t a joke she was trying to make), I felt a moment of cold hollow in my gut. It was followed by a few hours of confusion and disbelief. So I guess these feelings coming to even me, who had no real connection or feelings about Michael, must be proof of how far his music and presence reached. My condolences, Carrie.
j
I’m going to everything in my power to make the two and a half hour trip up to Berkeely to see the show. Currently, I kind of lack transportation… and money.. but come hell or highwater (I never knew what the phrase meant, anyway, but whatever), I’ll get there somehow.
Hey doll,
I would marry you OBVIOUSLY but I’m afraid I fit into the 50% of your audience (that you are fully aware of) that is homosexual and insane. There is nothing I can do about that, nor would I want to. A hug perhaps, marriage not.
Anyway, do you think you might find it deep within your bosom to bring your show to the UK. Specifically Brighton. Maybe my house? A theatre will do. I am not a NUTTER despite the fact I previously claimed insanity. I know England is very far away and it would be a mission, and if you asked ME to come do a show near your house I probably couldn’t be arsed to get out of bed… but hey, think about. I can’t buy ALL the tickets but I’ll have a go. There might even be a sandwich in it for you.
Hormonally yours
Crysi de Milo (the acceptable face of postgenderism)
“I realize these children don’t resemble him mightily, but I there must be some other explanation other than someone else fathered these children.”
Yes, very simple – MJ was probably sterile and “shooting blanks” but he wanted the world to believe that they were “his”.
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[...] Fisher, who says she was friendly with Jackson (but not on a Liz Taylor level), took to her blog on Monday to talk about what she knew about the King of Pop as a father: I saw Michael with his [...]
Thanks for writing about this, it’s very nice to read an honest and believable perspective. I am sorry for the loss of your friend and very sad that those kids lost their dad. I think I’m done reading or watching anything about MJ now & hope the media can put it to rest. It really bothered me last week watcthing the nightly news and hearing Katie Couric give an update on Michael Jackson (basically “no plans have been announced yet”) and then after the commercial break she said “For our 2nd story, a U.S. soldier was kidnapped in Afghanistan.” WTF that’s the 2nd story??? Infuriating. I think the press won’t change until we stop buying the tabloids and start changing the channel. Who’s with me?!
I’m really looking forward to seeing you at the 2:00 show in Berkeley this Sunday! I happened to find a 1961 “Movie Stars” magazine with a cute photo of you, Tod and your mom in Bermuda. There’s also a slew of articles about Debbie, Eddie, Liz, Harry, etc. etc. I even noticed a submission for to get an entire magazine dedicated to Debbie, Eddie and Liz for only 25 cents! Do you suppose it’s too late to send in for that one?
Thanks for all the good times! Can’t wait!
Best,
Jo
You are wonderful, thank you for keeping it real, as only you can do. Best Wishes, Joseph
Love ya Carrie, but I think you’re wrong. In looking at Dr. Klein I see the spitting image of Prince (Michael’s son). That man is his father. Maybe not Paris’s or the little one. Or maybe so. I guess all that matter is they had a father and he died. I hope the kids are raised by the Jackson women now.
Best of luck with the show.
It was so good to see Paris singing along to her dads songs at the end of the memorial service..and absolutely heart breaking to hear her speak about how much she loved him. I hope the three kids will find a home where they will be loved, nurtured and protected like all children need and deserve.
Well, I was a big fan of Michael Jackson when I was seventeen but, unlike you, Carrie, he left me! Well, you left us all for awhile, as well, but you CAME BACK to us in recovery and now you seem more present than ever. I mean PRESENT as “IN THE NOW.” I just don’t believe Michael ever came back. I kept waiting for Michael to hit some kind of rock bottom and come back but he just kept getting farther and farther out there until he is just absolutely gone now. Nothing left. I choose to remember the young, very handsome, black Michael Jackson who came out with “Thriller!” and didn’t seem to be so medicated all the time. I know I’m being judgmental; I know all about self loathing, and I’m just a recovering bipolar addict looking from the outside in. When I think of Michael Jackson, I won’t remember the emaciated, pale sad figure he had become.
The more I realized he was a Peter Pan-esque type person, the less I was attracted to him, as well. I’m an adult, and enjoy being around other adults. Kids are fine when mentoring or parenting them but they don’t take the place of my adult friends. Poor Michael was horribly damaged, and I wonder if he was ever able to work through some of his problems rather than just have a circle of enablers that kept him chained and enslaved to his past? G-d, sometimes when I saw him I just wanted to scream, “TWELVE STEPS, MICHAEL! TWELVE STEPS!!!!” I look at your photos and read your blog, still your weird gay bipolar addict fan as much as I was then, Carrie, but both of us in RECOVERY (Life is so much more beautiful “present” in recovery) and I remember you “back in the day” and then think she is a celebrity who grew with us and not away from us. Michael just seemed to grow farther and farther away…
I’m thankful you are still PRESENT with us. I will say it about tore my heart out of my chest to hear his daughter cry at his funeral. I did see that part, and I thought, “My G-d, that poor child…” and “Children caught in the crossfire.” While writing this I’m praying his children find some balance and the childhood he never seemed to enjoy in his life.
Wow, its 3:15 damned o-clock? Am I manic? I took my meds today. Swear to G-d…
As far as the coverage is concerned, I think it was a great excuse for the cable news networks to run their pre-taped “Michael Jackson” videographies for ten days while their anchors went on summer vacation. I’m “Michael Jackson-ed” out!
1.)Cariie, I do not really know you or love you (or am in love with you), so it would be unfair to you and me to accept your marriage proposal. Ten years ago, yes, in a heartbeat. Then, I was very much that type of person. I’ll compromise. I like your books. I enjoy your promotional appearances I see on television. I’m not put off by body image or whatever they call it these days. So there is some familiarity. Let us get to know each other for a bit, not too long, and then see if we both want to take the plunge. If you are intrigued or interested, you have my contact info.
2.)Carrie, I have had a great love of the work of Michael the artist and the performer but never did like or care for the output of Michael the tabloid being and to this day I am not really sure who actually fomented and fed this beast. One reason (not the primary) I am a fan of the music and art of the San Francisco based group, The Residents is that they took great pains to have their personal lives anonymous, so all you had to appreciate and discuss was the band’s music and art, and not bother with minutiae and ephemera of their personal lives, i.e., diets, divorces, daughters and diva-like directors. Were it only possible that the only time we heard anything about MJ was only when he had a new album or tour coming out.
3.)Carie, MJ did have some problems, there’s no denying that, and what makes me unhappy and upset is when people can finally afford to get help, no matter how wealthy they get, they remain behind a fortress of complete denial and the people around who should be helping, contribute to the problem and make it worse. I had major depression bordering on bi-polar back in the nineties, and when the insurance ran out to treat it – that was that – I was shown the door. Several months later, a major pop star with major depression and a heroin addiction blows his head off instead of cleaning up his act – I start feeling the rage – I wanted to be able to afford treatment to heal – and this person who could afford to, chose to hide in his disease and self destruct. In light of MJ’s demise, is it safe to assume Michael’s biggest obstacle was his denial of his problems and there was no one who could stand up to him and his demons and say, “NO!” and get him the true help he needed? His death will probably be attributed to “misfortune”, “an accident”, ” a weakened compromised body” and no one will want to step up to the plate and say how they contributed to the demise of “The King Of Pop”.
I can’t wait for the tickets for Wishful Drinking in New York to go on sale. I read the book, listened to the audiobook and listened to the audiobook again, now I want to see it live. The timing is crucial as I am coming from Scotland (I am not a nutcase stalker, I was coming to New York then anyway) and I am very excited (possibly too exited for a 40 year old man) I love all of your writings, especially the ones you have done on audiobook format, something about your voice, I could listen to you read the phone book, Just the way I feel about Stephen Fry. (maybe I am a nutcase)
I wish people would remember no matter who MJ was or whose children they are, THEY ARE CHILDREN. Leave them alone to greive the only daddy they have ever known. Carrie, Thanks for shareing your memories.
Howdy Honey,
So what’s with all the broken legs? Jeeze I can just see it… you’ll be dragged out on stage in traction. Oh well, at least no one said break your mouth.
So enough with all these “oooh I can’t make it and wish I could” comments. I’m going, damn it and proud of it. Yesssiree. Got my tix and lookin forward to it. Mr. Big Spender here.
When you were visiting with him, could you take your eyes off of MJ’s nose? I would have gone crazy trying not to look. Kind of like talking to a large breasted woman.
OK. Time for a “nap”… (hint, hint) want to join me?
Carrie,
I think MJ’s kids do look like him very much! My Sister and I look exactly like my mother, blonde/blue fair skin and look nothing like our Dad tall black hair, however if you look closely you can see my Dad in us now that were grown! It’s more our demeanor than physical looks! People need to give the Jacksons a rest, specially the three kids and let the family and friends mourn in peace!
I love all your work, specially Star Wars
PS my favorite CF quote: “I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table” love you in comedy’s
Mike
Carrie,
I write out of solidarity! I just finished your book “Wishful Drinking” and am so glad you have a mother that is so loving, present and most of all damn funny. I unfortunately went through breast cancer & subsequent treament at the same time I gave birth to my twins. If that isn’t funny matierial I don’t know what is. My mother and I laughed at people’s responses to the babies ( “Yes, my mother had to carry one to delivery since I was diagnosed with cancer”.) and my baldness, my wig (who left the rat on the staircase?) and chemotherapy. We became world class delusionists. But my mom was there for me and 8 years later now I am happy, healthy and “doing” triathlons (Why would you want to do that, dear?) she is “for” me.
Aren’t we lucky?
All the best.
HI CARRIE!
IVE WANTED TO MARRY YOU SINCE I WAS 8! LETS GO BABE! 
Weve met, or at least I have stood around until a few moments of your life brought you to cross my path. I met you at your LA interview with the monty python guy in 2001, then again at SW celebration 3,your 2000 and 2001 Disney SW WEEKENDS appearances were AWESOME, yup I was there…and in NYC iyou did an autograph/toy show appearance gave you a burger king star wars watch n you let me take a snap of you with it
i have also been in the audience for your NYC Barnes N Nobles book signings in 2005 and for Wishful Drinking. I saw your last show of Wishful Drinking in DC and waited to say HI as you left the building after the show and headed down the alley with a bunch of pals for the after party…you were SO gracious to me that night and I felt bad I might have been “scary” standing around alone after the show waiting in the shadows…when you came past i stepped back n I said it was ok if you didnt want to sign my program…BUT you did 
YOU have ALWAYS been so kind to me a total SW nerd and it has made me very happy to have had so many face to faces with you…I just wanted to say thank you from a long time face in the crowd/one of your original BAND OF MERRY Stalkers 
YOU R THE BEST but im older now and love all the sw things you have signed for me so unless you wanna date, you wont see me in the crowd anymore…THANK YOU again for being SOOO Cool all the times I saw you and such,well, a sweet princess
OK, ill be at your show on Broadway, but ill steer clear of the stage door stalker scene…I CANT WAIT to see Wishful Drinking AGAIN
Thank you for the great pic you posted of MJ, someone else besides yourself who was someone larger then life for us kids of the 80s
Curt from new jersey 
I just read your book wishful drinking. it felt like i read it in 2 minutes. it really made think twice about the situation i’m in right now. thanks carrie!
Dear CFF;
I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing. It means a lot.
So much of your work is about “celebrity.” To fracture a hero’s words, “Some are born to celebrity, some achieve celebrity, and some have celebity thrust upon them.” You’ve tried to give us some notion what it’s like and you’ve done it well. But we’ll never really know unless it happens to us, will we?
Trusting your sincerity and talent, you say MJ was okay. I’ll take your word and mourn for him.
Marry you? Hon, I know I’m not worthy. I hope you find someone who is.
Hi Carrie -
What a lovely tribute to a freind – While I’m utterly tired of the ‘cult of celebrity’ and how people who vilianized MJ while he was alive are now trying to lionize him now he’s gone, this was a refreshing read to hear about the family man.
Break a leg in Berkly, and we’ll see you again soonest I hope!
PS – I don’t care who ‘fathered’ his children – it sounds like he was ‘Dad’, and the kids couldn’t have asked for more than that.
really insightful post. thanks. truly makes me rethink what i thought i thought i knew about someone i know nothing about.
re: marrying you – how about if i marry you a little? and by that i mean, i’ll read your blog and you’ll read my comments.
Carrie,
It’s so good to see you posting again. June was a long, hot dry month for those of us who enjoy your writing. I do hope to see more entries as you get ready to do the show in Berkeley.
Break a leg!
Dan
I saw the show last night. It was phenomenal. I went with my boyfriend who like many knows you from Star Wars. Personally my first memory of you is watching Postcards from the Edge. I thought it was so hilarious, I started researching who wrote it, found your book and became an instant fan! I was honored to be able to see you and your father sing together. Having lost my father not too long ago, it gave me goosebumps. Thank you for sharing!
As a former dabbler in the theater, i was always amused by the expression “break a leg”, which gives whole other meaning to the term “cast party”. Your Broadway show will be successful, I have no doubts at all. Enjoy it all and give thanks. Hope you drop by Dallas/Fort Worth soon, us people in boonies enjoy your work, too.
I am happy to hear that you too don’t believe he committed the crimes against children. A while back when this was all going on, I felt in my heart as well that it was all a big sham, for the money. What a shame to ruin someone for the love of money! But he wasn’t really ruined, and eventually the truth will come out. It’s a terrible loss.
Carrie Fisher,
Saw the show in Berkeley last night. I enjoyed it very much. Brought a friend who later confided in me her own past struggle with mental illness. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hospitalized for weeks. She, along with the rest of the audience, didn’t raise her hand when you asked if anyone had ever been intitutionalized. I didn’t ask her why once she related the details. It’s enough that you have raised your hand and are being open about your past. Wishful Drinking clearly impacted her.
Thanks for the wisdom delivered in laughs. It’s the best way!
Shea
Dear Carrie,
How strange to address someone I have never met by their first name- but you do make us feel so … in touch with you as we read the blog. ( The same feeling when I read and listen to your books, as well.)
Thank you for the blog, which I have been reading for quite awhile , quite timidly never posting even when I got an “engineer of elsewhere’s ” email saying to post, you’d be gone a bit.
Glad you are writing here again… hope you keep writing, I enjoy reading. I’m continually coming back to see if you’ve written something new…
Do break a leg in Berkeley.
I live in NYC – and really look forward to seeing your show at the Roundabout.I have loved your books- and “The Best Awful” somehow really stayed with me. I love that you yourself read them , as well, for the audiobooks. My favorite way of “reading ” them- is hearing them in your own voice.
This post ? Is lovely, I had the same impression listening to his interviews several years ago …though the English interviewer was actually rather snide- that he was rather child like, a child himself. When you state above “He was a child himself”– that is just what I saw in of all places Aruba, watching CNN doing god knows how many late night documentaries as he was accused of this and that. I thought, gut feeling, no- he seems more as though he is like a child, in a good way- innocent. That he prefers to be around children because he is still in many ways like them. In good ways. Sad, that he is suddenly- gone. Very talented. Sad, also – to leave the children parentless …. had not realized….
In any case, a very sweet post. I had not realized ( or watched the news and funeral) he left three small children behind. I hope a loving member of the family takes them in, they deserve that. I did glance at news of the funeral and children after reading here… sad for the children, hoping they do find a good home within their family somehow.
And thank you for continuing to blog. I love your blogs when you are in every sort of mood- I love that you early on told us you labor often over what to write here… ( which certainly makes commenting an intimidating prospect , I must say.)
Re: your blogs in which you seem to blame yourself for weight gain? They are hard to read – and not comment. To say one – we do not care, you look great, just stay healthy, and two- it cannot be your fault!!! (Even without reading your books and listening to them, I know/ knew enough about bipolar meds to know a lot of them cause weight gain.) And- I am struggling with sleep disorder meds that are making me horribly too thin, also really trying, to be normal weight for me – and still too thin , horrible. Maybe my scale is broken? But no, my jeans are falling off !
In any case… I am reading re: weight… and rather relating. A friend in LA just asked me as I took off layers entering a theatre to see a play reading: “DO you EAT? Are you eating?” As she is a longtime friend I felt I had to go into a long insomnia sleep med explanation re: my sleep disorder so she’d stop thinking I was somehow deliberately thinking this thin looks good. It doesn’t–but I was trying anyway to look presentable. ( Ouch.) First: “Your hair looks good!” (ironic as I’d thrown gel/ mousse on it and crumpled, hoping for the best) …then as I removed a jacket and layers ( it was chilly in May) – I got the “Are you EATING?” comments, again and again… Til I had to explain….( Longtime friend, had not seen her in ages.)
Though I know actually she was being honest and caring — ah well. In any case, having at the moment the opposite sort of problem but similar in nature- as in: it is not deliberate and not my fault, I am trying— –YOU — do look great, anyway.
Truthfully- while yes your promotional photo looks lovely- you also looked and were great presenting on the Tonys.
I recently re-bought (lazy they are backed up somewhere…) the itunes “Dinner at Five” episodes you are in ( two, I found) and watched those again – also very funny, and likeable. Fun to listen to and watch.
I hope to see your show here in New York. Planning on it.
Again , break a leg in Berkeley and I hope you will find a bit of time to blog for those of us who are not there. I have the Roundabout web site bookmarked… Looking forward to it.
Thanks for the blog, and please, I hope you do keep writing here.
I love your books, your humor, your honesty, and love reading whatever you choose to write.
(The post about your daughter was lovely also…as was this one about Michael Jackson and his children. I hope they find a good home.)
So… hitting send with trepidation, and wondering, do you read the comments this far back?… I am not a writer, clearly … and I don’t type all that well!! …
But your blog is so generous, honest … and it is late and I have my usual (sigh) insomnia … so … if you DO read this, be kind?…
I find your blog generous and honest and love it.
Thank you for the blog. I look forward to your show, It will make the winter a bit less dreary here …
Ana
Carrie – Been following your career for years and years and look foward to seeing you on Broadway. I go there a lot on business and always try to support Theater whenever I can. I was out in the LA area when you were doing a couple week run of Wishful Drinking, got invited to go to the show with a few of my business associates and at the last minute they had to give the tickets to the wives and friends because we couldn’t get our business done in time……what a bummer.
Warmest to You,
StanTheMan
After reading a post like this, I wish I could have seen one of your shows!
Your intellect, regardless of electroshock or not, is superior to that of Admiral Ackbar. You will accompany Admiral Ackbar to earth in addition to the forest moon of Endor!
Carrie
Delighted you are bringing your show to New York. My friend and I are traveling to New York in oct from Ireland and plan to see the show. We have been admirers of your work for many years and it will be great to see you live! Hopefully we will get a chance to say hello to you afterwards. I send you all good wishes from Dublin and great good luck with the show.
mark.
Carrie ~ Thank you thank you thank you for putting on such a fabulous show in Berkeley yesterday. How DO you do it??? Especially the Sunday matinee, you’ve got to be just wiped by the end of the show and after a full week of being “on.” I’m still wearing my front row glitterfetti ~ thanks for coming back to Northern Cal, and knock ‘em dead in New York! Cheers ~
Dear Carrie,
Thank you for your amazing performance in Wishful Drinking on Sunday afternoon. What a great surprise to have the opportunity to see you again before Broadway! Thanks for everything!
-Robert
Hello Carrie,
I had a great time at your show last Sunday in Berkeley. I’m hoping you saw the “Movie Stars” magazine from 1961 I sent back for you. It is chock full of Debbie, Eddie and Liz gossip (scary photo of Elizabeth Taylor on the cover). I wonder if you have a whole closet full of these old magazines – but I was really thrilled when I found it. I had just finished reading “Wishful Drinking” (for the first time) and here was the evidence!
Thanks again for your generous sharing of your experiences with us.
Regards,
Jo Beck
The box office are being very cagey about when the tickets for the New York run go on sale. I’m sure it’s nothing to do with me calling every day from Scotland (running up my phone bill) that can’t surely be pissing them off enough to tell me the tickets won’t go on sale until September, Would it? Anyone know when the tickets do go on sale? I wouldn’t expect Carrie to go to any trouble to find out, if she reads this, but someone must know. The box office will get a restraining order if I call again..
Carrie,
I cannot tell you how thankful and excited I felt upon learning that you were returning to do more shows at the Berkley Rep. I saw you twice last year there (I was the one who sent a slightly sloppy glittery heart shaped box w/ a Coke Zero meditation stone in it, and on another occaision I sent back a pile of drawings my students did of you).
Well since last year a lot has transpired that I won’t bore you with here, but essentially I finished my MA in Education, finished my 4th year working 100 hr weeks for a School in the North Bay. Then we arrive at this summer. Since approx mid June I’ve been on a whirlwind tour of Benzo withdrawl from a sleep med I’d been given (Klonapin). This occured because they pulled my generic manufacturer off the market (they were making tablets that were marked 1mg but that were actualy 2or more mg)……befriended Henry Rollins and started an email friendship lasting all of 7 replies before he politely asked me to cease (still cool that I ANNOYED HENRY ROLLINS TO DEATH!—awesome and I feel truly blessed for this).
I just got released from a 72 hour 5150 that I brought on myself after I had a bit of a nervous breakdown…now I’m dealing with doctors who want to label me bipolar, since my dear ol’ dad was. I know myself, and feel 99% sure I’m merely a sleep disordered overly verbal dynamo, but they never want your opinion really. My mom and friends agree, and curently I’m trying to FORCE all my various doctors to communicate w/ each other. Shrink, Psychoanalalyst, Sleep Study Dr., and previous therpists, doctors etc…. all to ascertain whether I’m definitely bipolar, or if I just had a crappy med withdrawl syndrome from Klonapin.
I know it’s a long comment, but I just wanted to set the stage for how meaningful seeing you were in town was to me. Just hearing your show will likely be better than any of the meds they’re trying to get me to believe in, and YES I am on the silly meds since I figure it’s better to be safe than sorry.
YOUR SHOW WILL PUT TO SHAME ALL THE ZYPREXA, LITHIUM, ATIVAN, AND AMBIEN that the world is shoving down my throat at the moment. You possess the power/the medicine of making someone laugh at a seemingly depressing situation. You put things in perspective. YOU ARE MY BEST MED THIS WEEK!
I’ll be at the Sunday 2pm show, and don’t worry I will not yell out your name like a crazed fan lunatic, but I will be laughing in that audience (something that I really need).
You’re the sparkling glittery dream big sister of my dreams, and hearing you speak always makes my day.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR RETURNING — AND GREAT TIMING!!!!!
PERFECT TIMING
CARRIE is the best medicine in town!
Love Love Love,
Alice W
I’ll marry you! Is 37 too young!
The most sinister accusations were likely untrue or confused recollections, but there was a mountain of evidence that Michael had a severely distorted moral sense when it came to boundaries with other people’s kids. He’s a tragic figure in many ways, but the oft mentioned excuse that Michael was merely a child himself is really no excuse at all – because he wasn’t. There are legitimate reasons why there were multiple litigations. This stuff doesn’t just blow in from a light breeze of misunderstanding.
He was a phenomenal entertainer and appears to have been a wonderful person to friends and family. Anyone can have a hidden weakness or a dark side, though.
Carrie – this was the first intelligent thing said about Mr. Jackson thus far. If I hated the news media before, I have completely stopped reading/watching now. Good for you. Given your upbringing, I think you are much more qualified than most any one else to comment on celebrities and their kids.
Cheers
Mike Cohen
Carrie
My two oldest children saw your show in LA a couple years ago. When they heard that your show was coming to Berkeley, they demanded that I not miss the opportunity to see you! (my son was going to fly up to the Bay Area to make sure I got tickets! My daughter told me to wear “depends” to your show!) My friend and I had a wonderful time last night and I wanted to thank you for “inviting us into your life.” Each of us has a little of you in us and to see life’s challenges and “recoveries” put out in front was emotional and personal. You have so much talent and caring to share. I think we all are going to be alright! Thanks for picking Berkeley, a great location, location, location for your show! Go to NYC and get that Tony you deserve!
hey carrie
it is so cool reading your blog and all the beautifull things about Michael Jackson.
Well, still like the line in my diary…..”show me where is off, and i’ll fuck there”…qm2……?
stanley
Hello Carrie -
First, I need to say I love your latest book. I picked up a copy and had trouble putting it down. It was a bit embarrassing laughing out loud in the quite bookstore where I found it…but I couldn’t help myself.
ECT was recommended to me also, at one point, but I was too afraid to take that route because of the potential risks. While reading about your experience with ECT in “Wishful Drinking”, I found myself feeling a surprising mix of relief, gratitude, and jealousy. Relief and gratitude that my memory is in tact, but also jealous that I can’t forget some of the memories I would love to live without. I applaud your honesty and your willingness to share your experiences with us. You show tremendous courage in your work, and I think your writing is more evidence of that.
Next, thank you for your post about Michael Jackson. He was a wonderful musician, and I feel sad for his children and his family. As for the molestation allegations, I would rather give him the benefit of the doubt – especially as I never knew him – just his music. Since you did know him personally, I think it’s very touching to hear what you had to say about him, so thanks for sharing that, too.
I think the world would be a heavier and darker place without your presence…so thanks for hanging in there and sharing some of your life with us.
Sorry, I can’t marry you since I’m a straight female – but you do sound a lot of fun.
Michael Jackson: Glad to hear he was actually with his kids, not giving them away. I too have been wondering about the insemination talks. Why would he do that? Infertile?
He was like an emu, that ostrich species where the male take care of several females’ eggs and chicks and chase the mothers away. Very odd. They have a strong paternal instinct, but are not all that into females.
Personally, I think too much medication, too little food, to many London shows, the trial and the loss of Neverland broke his heart.
May I just add that I am deeply saddened by Michael Jackson’s death. It was far too soon and it seems so unnecessary.
Carrie –
It’s DALE from your Friday night show. Thank you for the autographed lube (how many people can say they have autographed lube from Carrie Fisher – none of my buds believed me). You were AMAZING Friday night & I love your blogs. I agree with you regarding Mr. Jackson – may he rest in peace. I too lost my father at 9 years of age and my heart goes out to his children, they don’t need to hear in the news about any of these things.
If you still want to run off & get married – I am your man!
Again, thanks for your blogs, your books, your movies & your WONDERFUL sense of humor!
Much Love – Dale
Hi Carrie,
Thought you might like to know that tonight, Monday August 3rd, on Larry King Live they showed a very nice still photo of you with Michael Jackson and Arnie Klein. It seemed to be at Christmas time. On the show they were talking about why a lawyer for Dr. Arnie Klein was at the custody hearing for Jackson’s children.
Sending love and all good things to you,
Dorothy
I wish more people like you spoke out in defense of Michael when he was alive. Maybe he wouldn’t have been so down and alone the last years of his life.
Carrie–I love you and always thought how cool it would be to hang out with you! What you said about Michael was warm and genuine, and true. Thank you. And I LOVE your book…I bought copies for my friends!!! Come to our poker party—alcohol free!!! LOL
I agree with you. I dont think he was all that people say he was..
your biggest fan
hayley
Hi, Carrie. Just found your blog as I was looking at the Roundabout’s website. I hope to catch your show in NYC. But, more importantly, your blogs have been so inspiring to me – someone who has been sitting on the couch for the last four hours while the world parades by the window. I now realize that I too struggle with depression. Many of the things you have written have resonated with me. Thank you so much. You have given me a little hope today.
Hello Ms. Fisher ( in my world aka Princess Carrie Fisher)
Sadly I just finished reading “Wishful Drinking”
I say sadly because I wish it went on forever, for the book only took me less than 2 half days to complete, I tried so hard to make it last longer but I could not control myself and had to keep reading, it took me to another place, a place too familiar for me but a place besides the place Im in now, which to me is my own personal hell
I wont bore you with details but I had to say thank you!!!
you single handedly, not only saved my life for 2 days but I have little hope, rather than none at all, for this feels like my lowest point (i think), nothing compare to what you have been through but like I wrote there, my own personal hell
I too like George post # 86 feel exactly the same and I too was looking into information on your shows, I too suffer from depression, I too have tried and still try every now and then to “feel better” or “not feel at all” I too still try to “Block out the dreadful noisy din of not being good enough”
Im glad you have an amazing daughter, Im glad you and your mother are nieghbors and for the life of me I can not understand who would not want to marry you!! (well anyone worth while) I wish I had a family.
Im also glad I bumped into your website!! I get to read more of your wonderful writing that takes me away from the place I dont care to be any longer…
I truly hope I get to see you one day, you’re my new hero, your writing is truly amazing!
you have touched my heart and made me actually laugh out loud, because of you Im alive right now.. I think i’ll read Wishful Drinking again
Thank You,
Shame~
Elizabeth if my son was molested i wouldn’t look for money but i would look for jail. i mean and about the other things you said about the other kids you mentioned how do you know they weren’t lying. plus i know that most of them addmitted that nothing happened.and last you can’t trust the smoking gun because most of it’s documents comes from the prosecutors part and they are biased
Dear Carrie – not the ‘couldn’t help but wonder-girl -’
the Wonderful Girl!
Am just writing this to share you that I had this awesome dream I met MJ. I never met him in real life but I always wished one day. And even I thought I was hallucinating in the dream. Maybe I was. But he was so real! This happend on the day of his burial I found later. I don’t keep up with the news. Don’t read papers or magazines, given up on that crap.
Anyway in the dream I had he was just getting his wings
And I told him he was cool (of course) and I always wanted to meet him. We had an really good conversation. And I showed him around NZ and said he could come with us on kids camp and we’d disguise him and nobody would ever know. lol. I called him St Michael and he laughed and said I could call on him anytime.
Somedays hes with me in spirit and it’s like he’s hanging around and finding out all the cool things he can do now he is invisible. When I feel like dancing and he’s given me his dance moves!
I let him know am sad about his family and his dad (read his bio after he died) who he said he loved but was a mystery to him. But he knows who his real father is. I always had faith in him.
It’s so cool that you got to meet MJ in the flesh but then of course you work in the entertainment department. When he came to Auckland one of the girls from my school got to dance with him on stage and said he smelled of talcum powder! We were all crazy about MJ. My sister got to go to his concert – I guess she went for me and got to tell me all about it.
MJ loved reading books and you both being authors is pretty neat. I am a librarian and sometimes I wonder how a book reading with MJ and Princess Leia would go down with the big boss. I’ve been in trouble before. She even made me see a psychiatrist grr! (long story, might save it for my soul baring book..just kidding – but then you never know about the snoopy people in the diary publishing industry – look what they did with Sylvia Plath – now the whole world knows she loved to pick her nose;-)
BTW have you read ‘Carrie’ by Theodore Dreiser? Good novel, great author. He writes realistic american ficition. Oh there’s a book to add to your related by scandalous literature and dodgy films family tree tangled up web. Carrie-Theodore Dreiser-A Place in the Sun-Elizabeth Taylor-your Dad-You.
But I bet you already know that.
You know I wish more people read books. You could branch out to kids books. But not ‘Carrie and her magic cigarettes.’ I think thats already been done.
take care
I have to take my olanzapine now
Selina
PS. MJ said he was BAD. I always thought it funny that it stands for Bipolar Affective Disorder.
So he had it too.
And only super intelligent sensitive funny talented geniuses get it. Because Vivien Leigh once said ‘it is much easier to make people cry thanto make them laugh’.
Hi Carrie,
I think you are still a total hottie! Just name the time and place and I will be there to marry you. By the way, in spite of the fact that my name is Kim, I am a male member of the species and will be a youthful 53 in a couple of months. We can exchange horror stories if you like, and rest assured, I have some real mind benders to tell. The best of luck in all your endeavors, including marriage.
Sincerely,
Kim Eakin
Hey, Carrie, I have a great way for you to lose weight. It happened to me just six months ago. I was rushed to the hospital because I thought I was having a heart attack. Turns out it was Congestive Heart Failure and they said it was from eating too much salty foods, drinks, etc. I loved Bloody Marys, polish sausage, etc. I actually dropped 10 pounds practically right away and it’s been uphill ever since, meaning I’ve lost more weight. Try it, you may like it. Let me know. I’m at kitchenkop@yahoo.com. PS, I don’t care what anyone says, I think you’re a riot.
Break A Leg in New York on Broadway!!!
Happy Birthday!
You Are Awesome!
Hope to see you perform!
Greg in Garrett
Break A leg Happy Birthday
I just read this, and now I love you even more. What a kind thing to say about Michael.
I love his poem Magical Child from Dancing the Dream.
“…And while they whispered and conspired
Through endless rumors to get him tired
To kill his wonder, trample him near
Burn his courage, fuel his fear
The child remained just simple, sincere
All he wanted was the mountain high
Color the clouds, paint the sky
Beyond these boundaries, he wanted to fly
In nature’s scheme, never to die.
Don’t stop this child, he’s the father of man
Don’t cross his way, he’s part of the plan
I am that child, but so are you
You’ve just forgotten, just lost the clue…”
It’s deeply profound. The whole book is.
I can’t even tell you how much Michael’s words have influenced me. I know it sounds silly, but it’s true. I’m a better person because of him.
Thank you for being his friend.
Carrie – I’ve always admired your honesty. Most people say the “f” word but omg – never in public. If you want to say it, you say it. You’re so different than your mom so it’s no shocker that you have had your problems in the past. I just saw your interview with Celebrity Ghost Stories and that is the first time I’ve seen you interviewed in a while. It brought back memories of you in a movie called Drop Dead Fred when you were fast-walking while smoking and talking and that was one of my favorite parts of that movie. I’m sorry for your losses in life and wish you all the happiness and success in the future.
Becky
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Carrie,
I am so thankful for your words about Michael. I am from Argentina and I noticed that in Europe and other parts of the world people seem to be less judgmental about this original interesting talented artist. I think he is one of the most misunderstood artists. I feel that Michael was searching for deeper rivers of feelings and spirituality. Deepa Chokra says he used to read Sufi poetry after performances. It’s good to know that there were friends like you, sensitive souls that gave him company and smiled at him. I don’t think he was a “pop” singer. I think he had a timeless element in every thing he did. Immensely interesting. May we all transcend bullshit and appearances and focus on the essense of Michael Jackson.
All the best in your show!!! Mariana
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