What a sad day…
I can honestly say I’m in absolute disbelief! The loss of two enormous celebrities in one day. We all expected the loss of Farrah and knew she wasn’t doing well. But when I heard about Michael’s death I surely thought this was a joke. After several reports of him being “hospitalized” and then pronounced dead then he was in a coma, the final report came in that in fact Michael Jackson had passed away. I can’t say I was a huge fan of him but I did love his music. I think we would all agree that he had quite a troubled life. Will we ever know the truth about his relationships with children? probably not. His music went hand in hand with so many of my childhood memories. I’m sure we will learn alot about his life in the the days, weeks and months to come. This reminded of the night that I had to break the news that Princess Diana had passed away. I was about 19 and was working at a radio station overnights on the weekend. A girl that was working for our sister station came running over to my studio and told me that Princess Diana had died. I thought she was joking because Diana was someone who I thought I would see age well into her 80’s or 90’s with lots of grandchildren….that was not to be.
I don’t know how I feel about Michael, he definitely had issues and was dealing with alot of internal turmoil but hopefully now that the paparazzi is gone he can find that peace that I think he was in search of his whole life.
R.I.P