LISA MARIE PRESLEY 'DIDN'T UNDERSTAND' HER RELATIONSHIP WITH MICHAEL JACKSON

[JumpinJack AJ]

Lisa Marie Presley 'Didn't Understand' Her Relationship With Michael Jackson

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 21st 2010 05:00PM

Lisa Marie Presley and Oprah Winfrey sat down in the English countryside to discuss her ex-husband Michael Jackson after his shocking death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs last year.

Presley explained why she wanted to talk about Jackson now. "Every time I've ever had an interview in the past, I tend to get very defensive because I was usually promoting something and it would always cross into my personal life."

"I wanted to sit and really have a conversation about things that are more on a personal level, before I do have an album coming out," she said.

"I didn't understand my relationship with him," Presley admitted of how she felt when she was with the King of Pop from 1994 to 1996.

She realizes now why people though their relationship was a sham. "To some degree, he was a master at manipulating a little bit with the media. I understand that nobody really knew who I was. They just assumed I was going along with something he would be doing."

"He was conditioned to get himself where he needed to go for his career and with his talent. He became very good at making and creating and pupeteering and manipulating to some degree," Presley continued. "I always confused that manipulation thinking that that manipulation meant that he didn't love me. I understand it better now. The manipulation was because it was a survival tactic for him."


Lisa Marie said she was in England when she heard the news and John Travolta was one of the first to break it to her.

When Oprah asked what she felt, she replied, "Real honest to goodness shock, not even tears. I was floored, honestly floored."

On Jackson's drug problem, she claims she didn't notice until the very end of their marriage. "I didn't really suspect and catch on until just before I filed for divorce. There was just an occasion, an incident where he had collapsed and he was in the hospital," she described of the scene in 1995 when Jackson collapsed while rehearsing for an HBO concert and doctors blamed it on a viral infection.

"It was very confusing what was wrong. Every day there was a different report. And I couldn't tell what was happening," she added. "I couldn't really get a straight answer about what was happening with him and I think we were all a little bit in the dark. At that point, I think I got from various indications that that was going on then."

"There were times that I would pick him up from certain doctors' offices and he would not be coherent," Presley remembered.

Something she wanted to make clear, their romance was for real. "I honestly can tell you, it was every sense a normal marriage."

"One of the very highest points of my life was when things were going really well and he and I were united together and he and I had an understanding about some of the people and things that could go on around him and he was with me on those things and we were a unit and I could take care of him," she told Oprah.

"For some reason, I don't know what happens when someone passes away and this is what's come of it. But I've come to have all this love again and understanding for him. I don't know why it had to take all that to have this happen. That upsets me a bit," Presley opined.

"Were you angry with him before?" Oprah questioned.

"I was very angry. I was so angry. I felt that we were so united and then at some point he pushed me out."

"There was a very profound point in the marriage when he had to make a decision -- was it the drugs and the sort of vampires or me? And he pushed me away."

She compared Jackson to her father, Elvis Presley. "The one thing that correlates with Michael and my father on this subject, they had the luxury of creating whatever reality around them they wanted to create."

Winfrey brought up the similar way in which both her father and her ex-husband lived and died.

"It really blows me away, to be honest with you. I still try to figure out why? What is it that I had to go through this twice?" she recalled. "I went through it once, that was painful and I went through it again."

She reveals that she wished she had reached out to Jackson before his death. "I know it's naive to think that I could have (saved him) but I wanted to. Had I made a call, had I stopped being so shut off from him, had I just said 'How are you?' I really regret that I didn't."

[VIsqo]

I didnt understand that relationship either, and they got married in my country.

[Jazzy Julie]

Oh i saw this interview yesterday, i always thought it was a real marriage but the way she was talking seemed to confirm it for me. I was a little worried how it would turn out bcoz Oprah hasnt been too nice to Michael over the years but i thought it all went really well and was mostly positive.

This article basically points out all the negative bits as usual lol.

[Turntable]

She has an album coming out.. surprise, surprise..

[bigted]

She has an album coming out.. surprise, surprise..

That explains it all right there...

[Jazzy Julie]

Well in her defence shes only recording an album now, it wont be out for ages yet. She told Oprah she was talking to her so when her album does come out people dont ask her all about Michael. If she didnt do the interview people would ask her questions when she was promoting and it would look like shes using his name for it, if she does the interview now she still gets accused of using his name to promote the album. She cant win.

[JumpinJack AJ]

I never thought there marriage was a sham. I thought they were a strange mix but I never judged. Everyone wanted to judge them becuz so many people wanna be negative.

[Turntable]

Well in her defence shes only recording an album now, it wont be out for ages yet. She told Oprah she was talking to her so when her album does come out people dont ask her all about Michael. If she didnt do the interview people would ask her questions when she was promoting and it would look like shes using his name for it, if she does the interview now she still gets accused of using his name to promote the album. She cant win.

She could just say "no comment" when they ask her about Michael later on, or say something like "Yes, I'm very sad". By the way, most artists get to pick the questions they are asked before the interviews. Managers are not stupid, they know that what one of their artists says can make or break them.

Edited October 24, 2010 by Turntable

[JumpinJack AJ]

I think people are just judgmental. I don't see her exploiting the MJ in anyway. It's Oprah...she always gets stories and interviews that others can't get. After all, when she interviewed MJ back in the 90's, Lisa Marie was there. It kinda makes sense to me.

[Turntable]

The simple point that mentions the fact the she has an album coming out someday, while doing an interview about Michael is because she wants people to talk about it. There is nothing wrong with that though, promo is good, it's her job aint it. I never judged that wedding by the way, I always found everything very strange, but well, Michael was a strange dude. I always thought it was real though.