LISA MARIE PRESLEY BLOGS ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND
THE FACTS
Michael Jackson’s first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, published a blog on MySpace detailing her feelings about the late pop icon.
THE SPIN
Like many, when word came out that Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, I didn’t buy it. It seemed like very convenient timing, and like many things from Jackson’s life towards the end of it, seemingly came out of nowhere.
But after reading Lisa Marie’s blog entry I am far less skeptical. They had to have had something real for her to pour her heart out in this way.
Here are excerpts:
“Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general. I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death.
At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, “I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.”
I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.
14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.
A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened. The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy.
All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted.
I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.
Our relationship was not “a sham” as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a “Normal life” found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.
I wanted to “save him” I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.
His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn’t know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.
At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.”
She added:
“I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him. I was in over my head while trying.
I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.
The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.
After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret.
Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.
At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.”
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well of course they both loved each other. At the time everyone was so concern about the settlement he delt with before they met. Here he finds of women ment for him and america thought it was a scam, what the fuck did people want from that man! He was slowly finding his way into a relationship and america srewed it up! No one knew what he was filling nor what he wanted, married again and had kids but not natural just because he didn’t want legal battles and got a divorce, had another child and people still broke his balls. Let this be a lesson learned about superstars.
Sounds to me like Lisa and the Jackson family knew what MJ was doing to himself for the last couple of years. Now they are dealing with a guilty conscious.
Well, unfortunately, LisaMarie, too little too late.
Seems to me there had to have been at least ONE person on earth who could have said to this guy, you know what? You need to change some things before you wind up on the evening news. Everyone has that one person. I know I do. Maybe his mom. Maybe one of his siblings. Maybe the king of Bahrain. Who knows? But as I said before…too little, too late.
YES, I DO BELIEVE MISS. PRESSLEY,I WISH THE MARRIGE HAD WORKED OUT.I, WAS SO HAPPY, FOR THE BOTH OF THEM. COOKIE FROM B-MORE.
HELLO, MARQUIS. YOU PUT IT SO BEAUTIFULLY. I AGREE WITH YOU WHOLE HEARTEDLY. COOKIE FROM B-MORE.
I don’t know how to comment on this maybe her and Micheal was in true love, but why wasn’t some of this being told during the divorce? and when Micheal was being tortured by the press when they came after him for charges of molesting the little boys. Why? wasn’t Ms.Lisa there for his defence, I would think when you take vows of love you there for better or worse not just for the better or for the worse how hipocritical.
“STOP THE LOVE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN” MS.LISA
Lisa it is too late to write about it now. What good is it doing? Nothing. He’s dead so now you want to talk about it. You must have a guilty conscious.
Did anybody (besides Lisa) try to help him. Like his mother or sisters and brothers.
The worst thing you can do in a relationship is be a rescuer. Yes, especially if you are a spouse or family, all you can do is love them and encourage them to steer away from self-destructive patterns. However, if nothing deters the problem, you got two choices, you go down with the ship or you bail. I think Lisa Marie had to get out. However, I think she didn’t totally make peace with Michael after the divorce because she was so angry (she appears to have an attitude problem anyway which I think is her Achilles heel). Now that he is gone it appears she has regrets. She couldn’t save Michael nor could his family and friends. Maybe she thought she could turn Michael on to Scientology and that would solve everything.
Enough about Michael Jackson. He wasn’t Jesus, far cry from it.
I pulled up on the internet that interview Diane Sawyer had with Michael and Lisa Marie back in 1995 (a year into their marriage) and I must say, despite the crappy questions Diane Sawyer asked them, I never saw the two of them look happier, smiling, flirting with each other and laughing. Diane asked Lisa Marie a question about what it is the most that she loves about Michael, and before she could even answer that question, Michael gave Lisa Marie a look and the sexiest smile that you’ve ever seen. I think the two were in love during that time and some say they still did even after the divorce. However, Lisa Marie got angry and tried very long and hard to bury those feelings over the years. That tells me that she desperately wanted the marriage to work out and when it didn’t and she couldn’t fix it, she got mad.
Minnie Moon you are just evil. get a life.
I believe she loved him and she feared this would happen. I know I always feared this would happen. I heard on an interview Janet back in the 90’s she hadn’t spoken to her brother in over a year. He was getting ready for a tour and she had called on many occasions without any reply. To be honest I think he was a good guy with a bad drug habit. Don’t believe any of the kid things because each of his acuser first went to a lawyer before they went to a psychiatrist and allowed them to report him. If the accusers went first to the cops then I might change my mind. But they went to settlement attorneys FIRST. It’s apparent he fired anyone that tried to tell him no. Even the Nanny was fired for the upteenth time this Dec. I believe he was and addict no less than Rush Limbaugh and if he says anything we need to jump on his case. I believe MJ has found peace and he had peace through his children. Only Lisa can tell his children what to expext. I hope the family can reach out to her and Pricilla regarding how to cope and best protect MJ’s legacy. From what Lisa has said - I believe she would want to help them.
He was an independent adult with a free will. I don’t think an adult can be helped until he’s ready to receive it.
If he wasn’t listening to anyone who tried to talk to or help him, then the only thing the people who cared about him could do was to step back, hope and wait…
It is a big misconception that Lisa and Mike got together after thr first set of accusations. Mike and Lisa had been seeing each other months before that and she use to stay over at Nerverland with him. He was angry when Lisa married her first husband in 1988 because he felt like it should have been him. This was not just some spur of the moment romance. This was going on for years. When Lisa divorced Keough, Michael humped at the chance to marry the woman he had loved for a long time. What ironic is that Elvis introduced the two years ago.
lol I meant jumped…lol
Why now is she speaking out! She needs to go away and focus on raising her children. She didn’t care enough to be there for him when he was alive. True friends and loves don’t walk away.
I’m not prejudice when it comes to Love of any Man/Woman choice. Lisa probably couldn’t deal with Micheals level of Spirituality regardless to her being the Princess to the King of Rock and roll, Micheal most definitely needed a Strong sister that came up with his background of spirituality. This makes a big difference to dealing with the World. Lisa probably could not relate to that. She meet the measures of his World on the outside but deep in his soul he needed someone from that World to keep him together and that is what this brother was truly in search for.
“For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul”
(Matthew 16:26)
I don’t know why people find it difficult to see how Michael and Lisa Marie could come together. They had a lot in common. Neither had a normal childhood. Both were swept up in a fantasy world of stardom. Maybe it wasnt the worlds greatest love story, but I can see what each could do for the other. I can also understand Lisa’s need to focus on her children. I think she made the right decision for her and the kids. Sometimes we want to help but can’t. But for a while they brought each other happiness. God Bless them all.
Yeah, Micheal and Ms.Princess Presley came together on the conditions of Money not on being soulmates.
In Micheal earlier years of his career all he was surrounded with is Black successful men who was married to White women and Black successful woman married to white men and most of his audience was white.
The only Blackman that was married to a black woman was his Father Joe and from what he told all veiwers on his televise interview with Oprah was that Daddy Joe was abusive.
I loved my brother Mike enough to keep this real, I followed his life all the way from the start and still I go on youtube to watch some of the Jackson Brothers appearances on televison shows, and that vigilori or what ever that skin disorder he told people he had does not exist and if so it does not completely turn you that white. Doctors are quacks. He didn’t hate his blackness, but it was confusing for him growing up as a Blackman in this World, when the race was always considered to be inferior to the superior white. Until this day the only skin disease that do exist is prejudice in skin color.
Micheal being with these White girls was a way for him to remain in capital gain. Micheal probably did care for Lisa in a friendship kind of way, but passionately and deeply to his inner soul NOT.
That brother Micheal had a lot of African in his blood and was trying to hide it so that he wouldn’t lose his white core audience he tried to keep balance.
I’m keeping it as real as it can get. So you people need to get off this Micheal and the Little Ms Presley Princess was in true love with one another she didn’t even come to the Memorial not even a statement or letter of condolences to the Family, but Brooke Sheilds was there so she was more real than that Princess Presley who”s been riding on the Name of her Daddies.
God Bless the Child who has His/Her Own.
Peace and Blessings,
Christopher, I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I don’t believe that Michael was with white women because that’s what you do when you’re successful. Let’s not forget that Stephanie Mills has stated before that she dated Michael and he was wonderful to her.
And contrary to your personal opinion, vitiligo does exist. However, you are correct in that it doesn’t turn you completely white. In fact, Michael and his doctor supported your belief by revealing that at first they used makeup to try to cover the light spots (don’t believe me? Youtube the 2300 Jackson Street video and check his face) but the vitiligo got so severe and difficult to cover that the decision was to go with the depigmentation. Michael is quoted many times as saying he was very proud to be a black man.
I will admit that he appeared to have an addiction to plastic surgery, but that is something that the surgeons should have restricted. Instead, they were blinded by his money.
I don’t doubt that you respect MJ, and I don’t believe that you were speaking from a mean place. But before you impune a man or a disease as real and devastating as vitiligo, please do a little research.
I apologize Felecia, I didn’t have all my sources together about the vitiligo disease.
No I wasn’t speaking from a mean heart. I loved that Brother Micheal he was inspirational.
I’m very delicate myself and I get teased a lot about my feminity even from a child and I love women always have well I’m married for 20 years with three children and I love God and my wife and people still think that I’m a bisexual, and I’m not attractive to Men in that nature, but I don’t hate Gays either thats something God will deal with them on.
Just that People really want to know so much about Micheal and only those who knew him will know him well and something about him was in all of us.
It’s just that I am trying to say is that I understood Micheal and He gave me the confidence in who I am and I will always cherish that.
I’m truly sorry if I was not clear on what point I Was trying to make.
Yes, I they did love each other.He loved her more than she can think of. Lisa did understand him but she had no patients to stay longer with him (Gone To Soon).I think she realised it long time ago. He most prpbably was not able to open his hart enough to tell her to stay. Listen only his songs (texts. Nobody seems to care what he said in songs. That was the only way he could tell what he felt.
Lisa, I do hope you write a book or something similer about Michael.
Regards from Germany.
I believe that she still has love for him. Any two people that have loved one another, or even agreed to share vales, at some point there is still love in the heart although they may be or become distant. Now whether or not this reoccurring drug ordeal that she is speaking on holds any truth is a different story. For years you say nothing and just like his father, trying to make spot light and a few extra bucks. Just because she still loves him, does not mean that she wants the best interest for him. Just as well as some mothers go against daughters.. So this comes as no surprise. For yrs she let him go thru with the public, is it or is it not real. The time that she should have spoken, was over long ago…
There is no need for anyone including the guy that lied on him stating his son was touched, there is no need to speak now, its too late..Like wise, don’t ever wait until its too late to speak on your behalf…….This is a lesson to be learned for everyone…
Lisa-Marie I hope you feel awful for the rest of your life for leaving Michael you messed up. If you truly loved him you would have still been with him.
actually,i’m so confused about tis…i dont even know that lisa is good woman or bad untill now…hmm…
You can not save an addict! Only an addict can save themself! You can only attempt to intervene and that does not always work. Nobody has nothing to bre guilty about but the leeches that participated in feeding his desease called addiction.
I think they enjoyed each other’s company and “had sex” but the fact that she married him to save him AND divorced her husband to marry him is not the best way to start a marriage.
I read a story in people magazine years ago about her and her first husband. She said she did not know why he had to work because she had plenty of money. Then I later read that they argued because he was not as big a name as her and she felt that she needed to be with someone with a big name…more equal.
Her first husband lives on the property and took care of the kids when she was not there and his career never “took off”.
Sounds to me like she needed to be “in charge” and MJ was used to being in charge of his own life even if he was a nice, gentle guy. Maybe he rebelled.
My point is that they both had issues but unfortunately his were more deadly and did not get better over time.
One more thing….When MJ was on trial, LMP and her mother Priscilla were on Oprah. LMP said that marrying him was the biggest mistake, he used her and the three of them mostly put him down. Maybe she was still hurt by the failure but to talk that way about him when he was on trial is like kicking someone when they are down.
I think her blog was about guilt. She left Michael “to his fate.” She badmouthed him during a trying time in his life and continued to do so as recently as “08″. She acted as if she was ashamed of being married to him and said in a magazine interview while pregnant with her twins that marrying Michael was the biggest mistake she ever made.
The whole relationship started wrong. She was still married to her first husband when she and Michael began seeing each other. They both didn’t have the same fundamental beliefs even if they had some similarities. It was doomed to fail. They should’ve never rushed into the marriage when they barely knew each other regardless if the sex was good. It takes more than good sex to make a longlasting relationship.
When the relationship ended partly due to her not keeping her promise of giving Michael children, she tried to win him back even going as far as following him all over the world while he was married to Debbie. When he wouldn’t take her back, she lashed out at him viciously and harshly. Michael being the gentleman he was never said anything publicly about her even after she and her mother bashed him on Oprah.
Now he is gone and all those harsh words are coming back to her remembrance and it’s too late to say, “I’m sorry.” Maybe she truly loved him and apparently never fully got over him but lashing out at him like that wasn’t the way to go about it. She has to live with it now. Michael is free. I’m sadden that Michael never found that true love to love him unconditionally and not kick him while he was down.
i Really hate LMP.i really do..she’s 2 faced fake and should keep her mouth shut…MJ Loved her and wanted a family with her,,and i think she also loved him also at the time of the marriage ,she promised him to have kids then violated her promises,,,,LMP chased MJ after the divorce for years to return him back,,and writing him letters saying (i’m gonna give you nine kids,,do whatever you want,,,)but MJ moved on with his life and became hard hearted and didn’t wanna her back.. LMP act toward the past ten years was really VULGAR and LOW,,,to bash him everywhere on National TV,,portraying him as the manipulative guy,,,during time MJ was going through hell already,,and acting ashamed that she married him once,,,in a time MJ didn’t say one bad word on her…then after his death,,she feel guilty and write a pathetic stupid blog and saying i was lucky to know him bla bla,,why you didn’t say that while his life!!!!she really should be ashamed of herself..Too late Lisa for sobbing tears now..i don’t buy your tears..Leave MJ alone…
Lisa likes to act like she is so cool but she is not. I think Mike should have got with Karen Faye his makeup artist at the time. At least she is and was sincere.