Four months worth of rehearsals did not provide enough time for Michael Jackson's collaborators on "This Is It" to notice that the ailing King of Pop was dangerously close to meeting his fate.
"Michael would come in and say, 'I didn't sleep last night.' But then we'd be on set and you'd see he had his A game, so you didn't really question it," choreographer Travis Payne tells MTV.
Kenny Ortega, who directed the "High School Musical" movies, added: "Honestly, we were clueless."
"I was in awe of his talent, but at the same time I pitied him, because I felt his life was so unfulfilled," says Randy Phillips, president of AEG Live, which is behind the "This Is It" documentary opening nationwide October 28th.
What remains baffling to millions of Michael Jackson fans around the world is how so few people close to the late King of Pop seemed utterly incapable of perceiving his physical and emotional struggles with both individuals and substances that would ultimately bring him to a premature grave.
"I knew Michael led a very lonely life at times, just because of the nature of who he was. But I choose to focus on the fact that now Michael is not suffering," Payne says. "Now he doesn't have this daily struggle he had to be who he was. And the world is going to have his music and his art forever."
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What bothers fans is how much the media is responsible of his death and how no one has take the blame! it was the media after all who set him up and treated him like a monster and a criminal his whole life, back when he was barely sixteeen the media was already making fun of him, his blood is in your hands.
"Clueless" ???
Kenny Ortega is a liar! www.this-is-not-it.com
The media killed him! But It really went down because of Bashit! And stupid Conrad Murry McFlurry must be charged! Its so obvious he only did It for the money! LAPD sucks!
When I think of the way that the media used him for money...they still don't hesitate to this day to use him for sagging ratings. I don't care about the salicious things they said and still say about him either. They are all liars. Period. Just think of all the fans that daily have to hear the terrible things that are said...it's like a cancer - the media is.
The media is to be blamed for Michael Jackson's premature demise. Jackson was hunted to death. The media, along with people like Martin Bashir, Diane Dimond, Tom Sneddon, Evan Chandler, Jordie Chandler, Janet Arvizo, Gavin Arvizo, Shmuley Boteach, Uri Keller, plus many more will hopefully receive their punishment soon.
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