@MikeSalazar777@thatcareylady Exactly. I've seen it several times on Instagram too. They love cherry picking when to use Taraborrelli as a "reliable" source. As if a man who wasn't part of the marriage & wasn't around for most of what occurred would know that, yet Michael himself NEVER mentioned that.
Lionsgate Film Chief confirms they are hard at work on ‘MICHAEL 2’ and promises a “big satisfying movie”:
“We’re very, very confident that we’ve got an incredibly entertaining movie that will appeal once again to a global audience as the pieces come together.”
@MayOlivia5 All things that he mentions doing in some form or another on the Shmuley tapes. It doesn't make him a bad person, but I definitely think he wasn't ready for what a stable marriage requires.
@MayOlivia5 Exactly this! I don't think Michael was willing or ready to compromise the way he lived his life. I think he thought he could continue living it the way he always had, i.e. constantly being on the move, not checking in with anyone, putting things like music before his spouse.
Honestly, when the topic is the marriage between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, I usually avoid commenting on it. Because this story has turned into such a childish fandom war one side attacking Lisa, the other attacking Michael, as if there absolutely has to be a “villain.”
But after more than five years deeply studying Michael’s life, reading biographies, watching interviews, listening to testimonies, and analyzing both sides of the story, I sincerely came to the conclusion that their relationship did not end because of one person alone.
What destroyed that marriage was the emotional immaturity of both of them, combined with the incompatibility of two extremely strong and complex personalities.
It’s unfair to paint Lisa Marie as a villain. She came into Michael’s life during one of the most devastating periods he had ever faced, after the 1993 allegations. While the entire world was pointing fingers at him, she stood by his side. She faced the media, public criticism, and even conflicts within her own family in order to emotionally support someone who was completely fragile at the time.
But it’s also important to understand her side. Lisa was a mother of two young children, and she began witnessing firsthand the chaos surrounding Michael’s life: the isolation, the overwhelming pressure of fame, the constant media harassment, and the growing dependency on medication. On top of that, there were also ongoing tensions involving the father of her children, since Lisa continued traveling and maintaining a certain closeness with him in some situations, something that deeply bothered Michael and created insecurities within the relationship. She promised him children but later backed away out of fear. And honestly, I don’t see that as a lack of love. I see it as a woman who was scared of a situation that seemed more and more out of control. But Michael was deeply hurt because she didn’t fulfill that promise.. 💔🥺
At the same time, Michael himself admitted that he had enormous difficulties with relationships, and many fans ignore that.
Michael didn’t like feeling trapped. He didn’t like being controlled, didn’t like constant emotional demands, and wanted many things to happen his way. A lot of this comes from the traumatic upbringing he had and from spending his entire life trying to control his own world after the rigid childhood he experienced with Joseph.
In the recorded conversations with Rabbi Shmuley, Michael openly admits this. He says he was a “failure” in romantic relationships because his heart belonged to art, the stage, and the children of the world. He also says he felt “caged” by the normal expectations of marriage. There are even recordings of these conversations available on YouTube for anyone who wants to hear it from his own mouth.
And honestly, after studying Michael so deeply, I’ve come to believe that he truly did love her but he also needed freedom, isolation, control, and emotional space. And when that clashed with a woman who was equally strong, proud, and intense like Lisa, conflict became inevitable.
As for Scientology and some of the things Lisa later said in interviews, I also didn’t agree with a lot of it. And regarding Scientology itself, she was pursued for years by that toxic cult. I say this because when I first became interested in their marriage as a content creator, I spent a long time studying both of them in depth, reading biographies and books about both Michael and Lisa to better understand the situation.
In the end, turning this story into a fandom war is incredibly immature. Michael forgave her, and she also expressed regret. And honestly, none of us were there. None of us truly witnessed what happened inside that relationship. More than 30 years have passed, and neither of them are here anymore to defend themselves. So please, let’s celebrate what truly matters instead of spreading unnecessary hatred toward either of them.
MICHAEL has officially crossed the $700M mark at the global box office.
The King of Pop biopic has also retaken its position as the #1 movie in the world this weekend.
MICHAEL is now tracking to hit $685M-$705M at the global box office this weekend.
It has just debuted in South Korean at the #1 spot, and in June it releases in Japan.
@DCfanforever101@thatcareylady It wouldn't make a difference. I've seen some of them cheer when Ben passed, just because the hurt Lisa would have felt. And then cheer when she passed. There's no real empathy there, for anyone. Quite the opposite. They're like the guilter club.