Billionaire Beef!! What Did Oprah Do To Michael Jackson That He NEVER Forgot? | the detail.

Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey were two moguls that reached the pinnacle of their respective careers in entertainment by the 1990s. Their paths crossing only one time when the King of Pop agreed to be interviewed as part of a groundbreaking broadcast.

The conversation was revealing, an attempt to let audiences in the mind of Michael Jackson and his complicated world of superfame. Although Oprah allowed Jackson to open up, she eventually revealed herself to be untrustworthy after doing something to Michael Jackson that he would never forget!

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00:00 – Intro
01:26 – Early Days
03:32 – Elizabeth Taylor
05:05 – Oprah Talks To… Michael Jackson
13:10 – Aftermath
14:28 – 1993 Allegations
16:25 – 2003 Allegations
17:35 – Michael’s Passing
19:08 – After Neverland

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Just imagine, February 10th 1993. It’s a Wednesday evening, and at 9:30 PM, you sit down, like millions of others, to watch Michael Jackson talks to Oprah. Abc’s most anticipated interview special ever and the world’s biggest entertainer’s first televised interview in over 14 years. The conversation promised to be candid. The revelations, explosive.

As Michael Jackson agreed to give the world a rare and the life and mind of Pop’s most elusive superstar. Winfrey probed him on growing up famous, abuse, his changing appearance, tabloid rumors, relationships, and even his sexuality. Before MTV Cribs and social media made

Celebrity lives so much more accessible, Michael Jackson welcomed cameras into his private paradise for the first time, his lavish, Neverland Valley Ranch, which would soon become synonymous with the performer. The short meeting forever changed the careers of both Power Houses and Winfrey at least felt a close bond

Between the two during their short interaction. But why, after so long of staying tight-lipped, did Michael finally decide to speak out? How did Oprah Winfrey secure the scoop so many tried and failed that? And what did she ultimately do that taught Michael he could never trust her like that again? Here’s the detail.

Oprah Winfrey and her talk show had roots in AM Chicago, a half-hour morning show airing on WLS-TV, an ABC-owned and operated station in Chicago. Winfrey took over as host in early 1984 and within a month took the show from last place to first place in local Chicago

Ratings, beating out daytime powerour house, Donoghue. Aside from her local talk show, Oprah was also pursuing a big-time career as an actress. Am Chicago granting her big break and first Michael Jackson connection. When one faithful morning, Quincy Jones saw Oprah on TV and contacted her saying she should audition for a film

He was producing, the adaptation of Alice Walkers, The Color Purple. Winfrey was eventually cast as Sophia in the film to great acclaim, even receiving an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Valuing her experience on set and working

With the cast and crew on the movie, Winfrey struck up a tight bond with Quincy Jones in particular, and they became dear friends as a result. However, Oprah had to put her movie career on hold as she soon signed a big television syndication deal,

Now expanded to a full hour and renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show. The first episode of her new talk show was broadcast nationwide on September eighth, 1986. The show immediately brought in double Donna Hughes’ national audience, displacing Donahue as the number one daytime talk show in America.

In the early days of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the program was classified as a tabloid talk show, focusing on relationship, dramas, celebrity gossip, and combative debates on hot button talking points. However, Oprah’s unique relatable demeanor and compassionate interview style had its own charm. According to Time Magazine in August 1988,

Quote, What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plain-spoken curiosity, robust humor, and above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.

It is the talk show as a group therapy session. In 1988, Oprah Winfrey scored the interview of a lifetime and made her second Jackson connection, when Michael’s beloved friend and movie star Elizabeth Taylor agreed to an interview. However, although Housewives up and down

The country were more than happy to open up, Oprah hadn’t yet developed an appropriate interview style for her often more jaded, celebrity subjects. The two women were set up in armchairs at the Hotel Bel Air, and when Taylor gave Winfrey a last-minute stipulation not to ask anything about her love life.

Winfrey was caught off guard by the request and later said, quote, It’s hard to do when you’re Elizabeth Taylor and you’ve been married seven times. During the interview, Taylor didn’t give much of anything. Her responses were short. There were awkward silences, and Oprah was even given a tense,

None of your business as an answer to one of her questions. Winfrey later revealed that Taylor apologized for the interview and called the conversation, The worst interview of my life. However, four years later, Elizabeth Taylor gave Oprah another chance when the legendary star of The Silver Screen celebrated her 60th

Birthday on The Oprah Winfrey show in 1992. Among the many stories she told about her glamorous life, Elizabeth shared one particularly vivid experience she had when, about 30 years before, doctors had declared her dead for five minutes. Elizabeth described her out-of-body experience as having been welcoming. When Elizabeth finally came to,

She no longer feared death and always kept the experience close to her. The revealing conversation was a positive experience for both parties. With friend Elizabeth Taylor, now on good terms with the television host, Winfrey felt the timing was right

To reach out to Michael Jackson in hopes he would agree to an exclusive interview. For many months, Oprah received nothing from the global entertainer as he embarked on the first leg of his dangerous world tour. All a while, the tight-lipped superstar saw the already unpleasant tabloid press become increasingly ferocious.

With no explanation to his increasingly lightened skin and changing looks, they paraded on flattering photos of the artist as evidence of his mutilating addiction to plastic surgery and claimed that the superstar denied his race by casting a white child to play him in a Pepsi commercial.

Jackson took legal action against those perpetuating lies and issued stern statements denouncing such claims, but the issue only seemed to be getting worse. Michael Jackson couldn’t ignore it anymore. He had to face up to a serious image problem. Having allowed the press to construct an increasingly bizarre, wacko,

Jacko image of him for years now, it was seriously affecting his career. Having already orchestrated press conferences, released open letters, and written an autobiography, the solution had to be even more radical to stem the constant hostility being thrown his way and steer the press in a direction that would be

More compassionate towards him and his efforts. Encouraged by Elizabeth Taylor, Michael needed to reveal himself to the world in a way he had for so many years avoided. Jackson boldly picked up the phone and called the television host. According to Oprah, she was dumbfounded that the elusive superstar

Would, out of the blue, call her directly himself. Michael could have gone to Barbara Walters or any other primetime broadcast journalist to conduct the interview, but he likely chose Oprah because of their shared connection with Quincy and Elizabeth Taylor. The gloved one didn’t want to sit in a studio somewhere and be probed

By a cynical interviewer he felt no connection to. If he was going to open up for the first time ever, and he wanted it to be at his home in California, broadcast live so his words can’t be manipulated and conducted by a sympathetic ear who themselves

Revealed their innermost private details every day to millions. The terms were agreed and dates were set. Oprah had done countless interviews and met plenty of A-list celebrities before, but she remembers her excitement at going to the King of the pops’ home. We are coming in the gates of Neverland,

And it’s like a moment in The Wizard of Oz. She said, It was literally like going to see The Wizard. We couldn’t believe it. I felt like a kid. In early 1993, Oprah and her production crew visited Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch to shoot commercials for the interview special.

One commercial was broadcast immediately after his record-breaking Super Bowl half-time show. Just 10 days before the live special was due to be broadcast, there was press speculation that Winfrey was told to only refer to Michael Jackson as the King of Pop and that certain topics were off-limit. Claims that were later denied.

This was going to be the big moment where Michael Jackson was expected to finally open up about his private life. On the night itself, Oprah Winfrey has since revealed that it was the most nervous she had ever felt, stating that when she said the words, live and around the world.

Despite hosting a live talk show, watched by millions every day, she felt her knees immediately start to shake. By her own account, they were shaking until she sat down with Michael and asked her first question, quote, Well, how nervous are you right now?

Jackson was surprisingly calm for someone not used to speaking publicly, replying that he wasn’t nervous at all, which then put Winfrey at ease. During their interview, Michael spoke to Oprah about missing out on a normal childhood and denied multiple tabloid rumors, including that he slept

In a hyperbaric chamber or bought the bones of the elephant man. Quote, Where am I going to put some bones? Michael’s relationship with his father, Joe Jackson, had made plenty of headlines throughout the years. When Michael spoke with Oprah, he was extremely open about the sensitive

Subject, saying his father called him ugly, beat him, and frightened him. I love my father, but I don’t know him. Sometimes I do get angry. I don’t know him the way I’d like to know him. He said, Oprah said she was surprised that Michael was so candid in his revelations about his father.

Even in saying it, Michael tried to temper it by saying, Please don’t be mad at me, Joseph. Obviously, you know that he still carried that fear and pain. She says, Look at his eyes when he starts to talk about his father. His eyes shift.

In 1993, controversy about Michael’s ghostly skin tone was at an all-time high. He kept getting wider and wider and wider and nobody understood what why, Oprah said. Anybody who knew Michael Jackson will tell that when you are up close to him, he had absolutely no pigmentation in his skin.

You were looking at his veins when you look at his hand. You are seeing through to the blue veins, and they’re very, very apparent. You’re looking at a person who’s almost translucent. In one of the most memorable moments of Oprah’s interview, Michael told her he had a skin disorder

That destroyed the pigmentation of his skin. The disease, called vitiligo, was in his family. It is something I cannot help. When people make up stories that I don’t want to be who I am, it hurts me. He said, It’s a problem for me. I can’t control it.

This was one of Michael’s most defensive moments of the interview. You can see he got a little testy there about the skin issue. I think in 1993, nobody understood what it was. Nobody knew anything about vitiligo. She said, quote, I could see that that was

One of the areas that was very sensitive to him, obviously. Plastic surgery was another much talked about issue surrounding Michael Jackson in the early 1990s. His appearance had changed so much since he was a child star that there was much speculation about the work he had done.

When Oprah approached the subject, Michael wouldn’t get into specifics but said he’d had less plastic surgery than people thought. You can count them on two fingers, he said, admitting to have a nose job, but said most of the cosmetic surgery rumors were false. I have never had my cheekbones done,

Never had my eyes done, never had my lips done, he said. Regarding his appearance at the time, Michael said he wasn’t pleased. I try not to look in the mirror, he said. I’m never happy with what I see. In 1994, Michael married

Lisa Marie Presley, but when he spoke with Oprah a year before his nuttials, everyone was wondering if and who he dated. Michael told Oprah that he was in a relationship with Brooke Shields. Oprah said she hadn’t been sure how or if she was going to ask Michael about sex,

But she knew it was something audiences wanted to know. There was this mystery about him. At the same time, he’s holding his crotch and wants to rock with us all night. We don’t know who he’s rocking with. That’s what you really want to know.

She said, Oprah asked the question, even admitting it was embarrassing. Are you a virgin? Michael never answered. I’m a gentleman, he said. That’s something that’s private, that shouldn’t be spoken about openly. You can call me old fashioned if you want, but to me, that’s very personal. The interview then moved through Michael’s

Private amusement park and into his full-scale home theater. It was here that Oprah got a private lesson in the Gloved One’s signature move. We all remember when we first saw the Motown 25 Special and Michael Jackson Moonwalk. There are seminal moments in our life, and that’s one of them.

Oprah said, To be able to see him do that live and experience it, that was a little thriller for me. Towards the end of our interview, Oprah talked with him about his life’s purpose. To give him the best way I can through song and through dance and through music.

Michael said, I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal, the union between the material and the spiritual, the spiritual and the divine. I believe that that’s the reason for the very existence of art, and I feel I was chosen as an instrument

To give music and love and harmony to the world. Ac Nielsen reported that Michael Jackson talks to Oprah was watched by an average of 90 million viewers, which at the time was the 20th largest audience for a US television program ever and stands today as the largest audience ever for a television interview.

The special, along with his recent appearances at the 1993 American Music Awards and the Super Bowl half-time show just days earlier, were contributing factors in a resurgence in sales for his 1991 album, Dangerous. It was the most exciting interview I had ever done, Oprah said.

It certainly was going to be the most watched interview. After the live interview special was over, Oprah reflected on the experience and the time she spent with the superstar. What I remember about Michael the most is that he was a person who was passionate about life. He was really passionate about his work

And passionate about his desire to try to be a good force in the world. Looking back, Oprah says she realized in that moment that she had a fondness for Michael. He’s very likable there, and I can tell you I really, really liked him. She said, After this interview,

I thought I could be his friend because I felt that he was really honest. Despite speaking about their connection, the pair never became close friends. Within six months of the landmark interview, Michael Jackson was embroidered in another battle when allegations of child molestation hit news headlines in the summer of 1993.

While in a fight to prove his innocence, save his colossal career, and rectify his tattered public image, Oprah Winfrey, like many others in the public eye, steered clear of the controversy. Having shared her own experience of being sexually abused as a child while taping her talk show, Oprah Winfrey had become

Somewhat of an outspoken activist for change to protect children and exposing what she considered a national epidemic. She did countless shows on the taboo subject matter, urged Congress to establish a national system of background checks for child care providers, donated thousands to child abuse prevention groups, and hosted the 1992 primetime-special,

Scared, silent, exposing, and ending child abuse. Having become an advocate for those to speak out about an issue that often has deep shame attached to it, Winfrey likely felt she would be a hypocrite if she spoke out herself in favor of Michael, especially having only spent a brief

Period with the superstar and when details of the case weren’t clear yet. Oprah, instead, distanced herself from the King of Pop and never publicly shared her opinions on the alleged claims in order to avoid backlash. However, despite Oprah’s desire to disassociate herself from Michael Jackson, the groundbreaking interview did wonders

For her career as the special gave Winfrey and her talk show much needed credibility. She set her sights on more high-profile interviews and wanted to tackle more serious subject matters. By the 1990s, Winfrey began to host shows on topics such as heart disease, geopolitics, spirituality, and meditation. She became the go-to interviewer

For The Famous who wanted to bear their soul in deep of meaningful conversation, giving space to address social issues they were directly affected by, such as certain health struggles, sexuality, or substance abuse. In 2003, after Martin Bashir’s documentary, Living with Michael Jackson and reignited controversy of the superstar’s perplexing relationship with young boys.

Oprah Winfrey conducted an audience debate on the subject. Although the television personality never expressed an opinion on the singer’s innocence, she was visibly disturbed by Jackson’s warped perception of what is appropriate between a grown man and a child, expressing that it was dangerous to justify such behaviors such as

Sleeping in the same bed as a minor as it permits others to leave children in vulnerable situations with potential predators. When Michael Jackson was in the throes of his high-profile trial for allegations of child molestation in 2005, and while the topic was in the public zeitgeist, Winfrey took the opportunity to discuss

The impact of child abuse on several of her shows. His brother, Randy, revealed that the final straw for Michael was when the jury was deliberating on his fate, Oprah Winfrey chose to up her ratings by broadcasting a show on pedophilia. It was clear to Michael that Winfrey was

Just like any other clout chasing journalist looking for a story, and therefore she could not and would not be trusted again. However, after Michael Jackson’s sudden death in 2009 and during a massive public outpouring for the artist, Oprah Winfrey paid tribute to the troubled superstar.

Reflecting on their time spent together in their groundbreaking interview back in 1993, she dedicated a whole Oprah Winfrey show to the late artist. I was not a friend. I was someone who had interviewed him and at the time really had a lot of compassion for him.

And those feelings about him changed over the years? The feelings didn’t change in terms of my sense of compassion for him. What I felt was a sense of sadness. I never knew what the truth was, as none of us now will ever know what the truth was. But anytime anybody has allegations

Of child abuse against them, that causes me to take a pause. In 2010, Oprah was given access to Michael’s former home in Encino after being granted an interview with Catherine and his three children. The Oprah Show special caused a dispute within the Jackson family,

Many of whom were aware of Michael’s distrust in Oprah Winfrey. They especially disapproved of Oprah being allowed to film inside his home and conduct his three children’s first interview ever, especially for a father who had been so vigilant in protecting his children from the glare of the public eye.

However, it appears that Paris Jackson at least found the experience positive and therefore agreed to be interviewed by Oprah two years later, this time by herself for Oprah’s next chapter. However, having garnered rating success since the King of Pop’s death with sympathetic exclusives with those most dear to the artist,

Oprah Winfrey caused widespread controversy among Jackson fans when in 2019, she switched entirely by hosting After Neverland, a TV special starring leaving Neverland’s James SafeChuk, Wade Robson, and director, Dan Reed. Leaving Neverland being a two-part documentary that sought to expose Michael Jackson through the explicit

Accounts of child abuse by Safe, Chuck, and Robson. Using the opportunity not to express her own convictions about Jackson, she said in the after Neverland special, quote, The movie transcends Michael Jackson. If it gets you to see how sexual abuse happens, then some good would come of it.

This is a moment in time that allows us to see the societal corruption. It’s like a scourge on humanity. At the beginning of the special, Oprah Winfrey turned to the three men she was interviewing before saying, We’re all going to get it,

Meaning that they would become targets for his loyal fans in the Jackson estate, who had already filed a $100 million lawsuit to prevent the film from airing. During her interview, Winfrey reached out to Dan Reed and told him that he had done, quote, in four hours what I try to do in 217

Episodes dedicated to educating our audience about sexual abuse. Quote, don’t let anybody in your world make it about what Michael Jackson did or did not do. Winfrey told the audience, which was made up predominantly of child sexual abuse survivors. It’s about this thing,

This insidious pattern that’s happening in our culture that we refuse to look at. I hope we can get past Michael Jackson, the icon. She added, Stop staring into the sun and do what is necessary to heal our children and heal ourselves. As predicted, Oprah experienced an onslaught

Of criticism online for her alliance with Michael Jackson’s alleged victims. Those close to Michael claimed that she was simply choosing to ignore facts and giving legitimacy to their claims through her association. With Michael’s brother, Jermaine, tweeting, quote, So many in media, including Oprah, blindly taking leaving Neverland at face

Value, shaping a narrative, uninterested in facts, proof, credibility. We faced similar graphic claims plus trial by media in 2005. Jury saw through it all. Trial by law proved Michael’s innocence long ago. Fact. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this and would like more

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