Michael Talks To Oprah(February 10,1993)-(8)

Michael: Well, I haven't read LaToya's book. I just know how to Cinta my sister dearly. I Cinta LaToya and I always will and I always see her as the happy, loving LaToya that I remember growing up with. So I couldn't completely answer on that.
Oprah: Do anda feel that some of the things that she's been saying are true?
Michael: I couldn't answer Oprah; honestly I haven't read the book. That's the honest truth.
Oprah: Well, let's go back to when anda were growing up and feeling all of this, well, I guess it's a sense of anguish, I guess, so there was no one for anda to play with other than your brother's, anda never had slumber parties?
Michael: Never.
Oprah: So I'm wondering for you, being this cute little boy who everybody adored and everybody who comes up to anda they're pulling your cheeks and how cute; how adolescence going through that itik stage where everything's awkward, and I'm wondering when anda started to go through adolescence having been this child superstar, was that a particularly difficult time for you?
Michael: Very. Very, very difficult, yes. Because I think every child bintang suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that anda were. anda start to grow, and they want to keep anda little forever.
Oprah: Who's they?
Michael: The public. And um, nature takes its course.
Oprah: It does.
Michael: Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy, I used to not look at myself, I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried every day.
Oprah: Your father teased anda about your pimples?
Michael: Yes and tell me I'm ugly.
Oprah: Your father would say that?
Michael: Yes he would. Sorry Joseph.
Oprah: What's your relationship like with him?
Michael: I Cinta my father but I don't know him.