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Michael Jackson 1994 Grammy awards with Quincy Jones.Chris Walter/WireImage.comUs Magazine
Jones - who first worked with Jackson on 1979's Off the Wall - tells Details they'd talk "all the time" about how Jackson was changing.
"But he'd come up with, 'Man, I promise you I have this disease,' and so forth, and 'I have a blister on my lungs,' and all that kind of b.s.," he says. "It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff."
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"I've been around junkies and stuff all my life. I've heard every excuse," he says. "It's like smokers 'I only smoke when I drink' and all that stuff. But it's bulls**t. You're justifying something that's destructive to your existence. It's crazy."
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Jones says Jackson's obsession with his appearances got to be "ridiculous."
"Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it," he says. "But he obviously didn't want to be black."
Asked if that is the reason Jackson had undergone so much plastic surgery, Jones says, "Well, what do you think? You see his kids?"
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Jones isn't sure why Jackson had such a deep-seated issue with the way he looked. (In a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, The King of Pop said he used to wash his face in the dark because he had pimples. "I wouldn't want to look in the mirror... and my father teased me," Jackson said. "He would tell me I was ugly.")
"I'm just a musician and a record producer. I'm not a psychiatrist," Jones says. "I don't understand all that stuff. We all got problems. But there's a great book out called Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. Did you see that? That book says the statute of limitations has expired on all childhood traumas. Get your stuff together and get on with your life, man. Stop whinin' about what's wrong, because everybody's had a rough time, in one way or another."
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So what does he think killed Jackson (who died June 25 at age 50 after suffering cardiac arrest)?
"I would think that the pressure of the concerts and the debt and everything else..." he says. "...If you sit there and just stay hung up on one negative thought, you will become that thought. I know that Lisa Marie Presley said that she always thought he was going to die like Elvis. You sit and think about that stuff, it'll happen to you. If you start thinking about darkness instead of light, or fear instead of love, you'll get in trouble. I really believe that."
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Violol black people are pissedreport abuseposted November 9, 2009 12:12 AM PST
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sherry cI believe the negative comments should not even be spoken. We all have our problems in one way or another. Quincy should keep his remarks to himself. I think, unfortunately, that Michael was his own worse enemy. The doctor's were as much to blame as Michael himself. His talent was God given and if he let anyone down beside himself, he let his creator down. His focus should have been hireport abuseposted September 4, 2009 2:25 AM PDT
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DeborahImagine how difficult you might find it to go out in public with skin that is blotched porcelain white and dark brown (many of us won't go out with a zit or a cold sore) ... now imagine that you are someone sensitive and often tormented, who grew up in the public eye ... do you think maybe you might be self conscious?? do you think you'd do anything to make all of your skin a uniforeport abuseposted July 14, 2009 7:10 PM PDT
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moniqueAs the old saying goes, "if that ain't the pot calling the kettle black!" Quincy Jones must I remind you, that you have children by a white woman, Peggy Lipton. Does that mean you do not want to be black? People living in glass houses should not throw stones!!!!report abuseposted July 10, 2009 5:55 PM PDT
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I don't feel it is right for anyone to say what MJ's intentions were to be. He like the rest of us have and has had issues. How he dealt with them is his business. He did what he thought was best for him. Let's get away from the black and white issue and get around to loving one another. That's what the Bible instructs us to do and MJ had the right concept, exibreport abuseposted July 7, 2009 8:03 PM PDT
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AltheaSo what if Quincy married 4 white woman. He stayed true to himself, and that didn't make him want to be white because he married white women. Everyone has their preference. Now when you bleach your skin that's a different story!report abuseposted July 7, 2009 8:39 AM PDT
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AltheaEveryone is mad at Quincy, when all he did was tell the truth! I don't believe his comments was to put Michael down, but because he is straight forward, everyone thinks he's being mean, when actually the truth shall set you free. People are caught up in saying what they think people should hear instead of telling the truth. I Luv Mike, but it is what it is. RIP MJ!report abuseposted July 7, 2009 8:36 AM PDT
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NikkiI agree with Dee 100% Quincy had 4 White women and have the nerve to talk about Michael! We all knew Michael had issues with his skin color steming from his childhood, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Quincy is the pot calling the kettle black when it's all said and done.report abuseposted July 7, 2009 6:14 AM PDT
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DeeWhat the hell is Quincy Jones talkin' about?? He married anything else besides a "black" woman and to quote him "have you seen HIS (Quincy's) kids?" Like they said on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, " it's like the pot calling the kettle white!" Q is such a f***ing hypocrite! With friends like Quincy Jones, who needs enreport abuseposted July 7, 2009 5:33 AM PDT
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another voicehow dare you call yourselves his friends, his confidantes, when you cant even wait until his body is cold in the ground before you start spitting s**t about all that was wrong with him! so desperate for 15 minutes in the spotlight (or *back* in the spotlight, for some of you washed-up jokers), that you are fouling a dead man to get it. pathetic. lets see what folks say about you when you go...report abuseposted July 7, 2009 1:21 AM PDT
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