.css-ssumvd{display:block;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.25;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-ssumvd:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-ssumvd{letter-spacing:0rem;margin-top:0.9375rem;}}Gayle King Interviews Angela Bassett, Gayle Says March Is a Good Month for TV Lovers, Sheryl Lee Ralphs Definition of True Love, What We Know About The Little Mermaid Remake, Oprah Congratulates Kimmel on 20 Years of His Show, Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project", Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Wakanda Forever Podcast, Oprah Is Acting in Tyler Perrys Next Netflix Film. An extended version of the special will also be available on Oprahs SuperSoul Conversations podcast starting Sunday, March 10. Oprah is the queen of this format (her 2021 conversation with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is the most recent great example of the show-interview). You're looking at a person who is almost translucent.". That's all tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN, live from Los Angeles. And the lead singer, Michael, was just so incredible. So you worked really hard perfecting your dance moves, and you became a big superstar. DE PASSE: I saw these kids, and they were unbelievable. LEMON: The king of pop. Curiously, there was no mention of her personal connection to Jackson in particular, the famous 1993 live interview with him at Neverland Ranch, which took place just months before the first . Simpson, and Bill Cosby) crimes. In 1993, Oprah helmed what would become the most-watched TV interview of all time a title which the show still proudly holds. So it'd be nighttime. There is no song, album, or memory that is worth discrediting what happened to a seven year old little boy who was so young when he was being touched sexually, he worried that his abuser would turn into the werewolf from "Thriller." NORRIS: From the iconic look to the moonwalk to the glove, the red jacket and the zippers and glasses and the white socks. How many plastic surgery procedures have you undergone? Very, very few, Michael replied. LEMON: With each not guilty verdict, the crowd outside cheered. Mere months later, his public image would be tarnished forever Premiered in Feburary 10th 1993. According to television analyst Borja Tern, Oprah really knows how to create an atmosphere. Jackson fans have also been vicious, as Winfrey also received backlash before the interview. Kelly's recent indictment for 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. JACKSON: I'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): From child prodigy to cultural icon. I had go-to lines about being able to separate the art from the man; about how Jackson was certainly an oddball with an affinity for children because of his own troubled upbringing, but that didn't make him a criminal; about how there was never any real proof that he had abused children. HIATT: At the same time he was announcing these shows, he also made sure to say these are the final shows. Disfruta de nuestras lecciones personalizadas, breves y divertidas. The unprecedented live event, which took place before any allegations were made about sexual abuse, drew a worldwide audience of 90 million people. The interview with Jackson took place at his huge Neverland Ranch, complete with its own amusement park and zoo. He defended himself somewhat crazily, but it did make some sense: What about the millions of people who put themselves in the sun to make their skin darker, to become someone else? JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This was certainly the most bizarre criminal trial I ever saw. She was 96-years-old. The craze reached a fever pitch in 1984 when a Pepsi commercial gone awry sparked even more frenzy. Michael Jackson, in 1993 in a hospital for sick children. And I remember going to the recording studio, and there was park across the street. LEMON: By 1975, the Jackson 5 had made a highly publicized split from Motown. There is not a single thing or person in popular culture that is worth not protecting and believing our children. TARABORELLI: Michael began to sort of surround himself with young boys, and much to, I remember, the chagrin of people who were working for him. I'm ashamed to admit it in writing, but, here goes: I was one of those critics. And in particular, in the Anna Nicole case, I said, if that's what's going to happen to Michael, it's all going to break our hearts. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the greatest moment that disco has in its entire history. Of course, we're following developments out of Iran tonight. So an auction of his most personal items seemed like the answer. I just wish I could understand my father. Oprahs assumed naivet achieves complicity with both Michael and the viewer, and on television complicity allows for everything. "Thriller" broke records, with seven top ten singles. Several items were taken away. I mean, within six months, every 10-year-old in Dallas could do it. People were talking about his plastic surgery. And we started going, we started to get going. I think he was responding to his fans by, at least showing them his face. It would make me sad that I would have to go and work instead. LEMON: His long-time choreographer, Kenny Ortega, was at that last rehearsal, as he had been each night for three months. LEMON: It was a triumph for Jackson as a musician and as a humanitarian. To no -- he's not responding to CPR or anything. The marriage lasted only two years, but when Michael talked with Oprah a year before his nuptials, everyone was wondering ifand whohe dated. There's a flash behind him, and his hair catches on fire. BEN BROCKMAN, ATTORNEY FOR MICHAEL JACKSON: I was trying my best to get him down. The most incredible part of that whole thing was that on his being wheeled to the hospital, you know, he's waving to his fans with the glittered glove, you know, to the end a showman. LEMON: R&B superstar Usher. DE PASSE: I was asked to come to see this group. LEMON: On the very next morning, Jackson was found unresponsive in his own bed. LEMON: Family members came to Jackson's defense. He's unconscious? It was the last time the public viewed the artist not mired in disturbing allegations. MESEREAU: I was on occasion. He wasn't touring. LEMON: It was 1984 when Jackson was making this Pepsi commercial and his hair caught fire. He pleaded not guilty. This is a UK airing of the famous interview of Michael Jackson by Oprah Winfrey in 1993. BOTEACH: I said, look on the flip side of that. Im a gentleman. Who satisfies your desire? asked Oprah (in a nod to a line from the then newly released single Give in to Me). It remains to be seen how the recently announced film about Michael Jacksons life (which will star his nephew Jaafar and will be directed by Antoine Fuqua) will reflect this transformation. Ellen: Oh, thank you. Then two years later, I was like, I was wrong. A year later, the couple had a baby daughter, Paris Michael Katherine. He hadn't shaved that morning. LEMON: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was in the courtroom. Disfrute de nuestras lecciones personalizadas, breves y divertidas. Yes. With Brooke Shields? Yes. JERMAINE JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S BROTHER: You know, you have to say to yourself, who hasn't? As the trial progressed, he got weaker and weaker, including that one bizarre day when he called in sick and the judge said, come in anyway. Oprahs 1993 interview closed with one of the last candid images we would see of Michael Jackson: Oprah and he walking toward the Neverland amusement park, as the camera pans up and music plays. My "CNN Presents: Man in The Mirror" continues. That was the start of the plastic surgery, and probably the pain killers. Robson told Oprah of his decision to speak out: "If anything that I say is going to help any other survivors, then I should be able to speak the truth.". LEMON: Rabbi Schmuley Boteach was a friend and spiritual visor to Michael Jackson. CNN has unearthed a 1993 Oprah Winfrey interview with Michael Jackson in which he addresses Pepsi's then plan to cast a white actor to play him as a child in his ill-fated advertisement for the . WINFREY: And that was difficult to take, getting beaten and going on stage and performing? Thats why Im always surrounded by children now., After addressing how Michael felt going from an adorable child prodigy to a teenager, Winfrey laid the groundwork to address the singers controversial physical appearance; by then, the grown man had a pale complexion, a narrow, pointed nose, a Kirk Douglas-like dimple in his chin and he wore copious white makeup on his face. (END VIDEOTAPE) LEMON: Coming up, Michael Jackson, from riches to rags. For instance, Leave Me Alone, from his 1987 album Bad, was the first song in what became something of a subgenre in his musical oeuvre: Michael lamenting media harassment and responding to it with music. JACKSON: My friends and doctors advise me to seek professional guidance in order to eliminate what has become an addiction. WINFREY: And why would he beat you? Video of Michael Jackson showcasing his beatboxing and singing talent in an impromptu performance from 1993 confirms what we've known all along: MJ was a natural born entertainer. So, how do you write a song called "We are the World"? The interview shattered records with an audience of 90 million. You know? So we started listening to tracks, like De, de, de, de, de, de. Every time a shot opens, we see behind him a huge, lonely room filled with expensive works of art. Kim Kardashian Back in 2012, Kim did a tell-all interview with Oprah about her leaked sex tape with former partner Ray J. I have loved Michael Jackson the artist for several decades. LEMON: The marriage collapsed less than two years after the wedding. JACKSON: Because he -- he saw me -- he wanted me to -- I guess, maybe, I don't know if I was his golden child or whatever it was. Interviews. On the weekends, I'm probably either having a margarita, adding new books I don't need to my TBR pile, or playing with my puppy, Leo. JACKSON: Yes. GORDY: Suzanne de Passe insisted I meet with these kids and audition them. Presley filed for divorce in 1996. Tern claims the visual aspect very subtly [drew] Michael Jacksons personality, that outdated mogul thing. HIATT: That's not really a comeback when it's your farewell. Robson and his mother moved from Australia to work with Jackson, and as a child, he starred in music videos like "Black or White" and "Jam," gigs that he says led to spending more and more time with Jackson, including sleepovers at Jackson's Neverland ranch. With Michael Jackson, you never know what the truth is. And I was -- and I kept saying, I just hope he gets a physical trainer, someone to really work him out, to make sure he's healthy and prepared. LEMON: But behind the image of a happy family and their rags to riches story, there was something else -- incredibly hard work, and a father who pushed his children. #MichaelJackson #OprahWinfrey #MichaelJacksonInterviewThis is the Making of "Michael Jackson Talks . Brooke. Then he added, Ive always been in love with Diana Ross. Oprah asked if he would propose to Elizabeth Taylor. web pages . LEMON: The Los Angeles Coroner's Office said they would need toxicology tests before determining the cause of death. LEMON: It is Chopra's belief that prescription drug abuse was Jackson's downfall. To understand the enormous buzz that an interview with Michael Jackson (Indiana, 1958-Los Angeles, 2009) generated in February 1993, one needs to understand the context.