September 25, 2009, (Sawf News) - A book on Michael Jackson, based on 30 hours of taped interviews with him, gives a rare glimpse at the confused person within the larger than life entertainer.
The book - The Michael Jackson Tapes – is written by his former adviser, Shmuley Boteach. It dwells on Michael's addiction to fame and drugs as well as his obsessions and delusions.
Boteach says Jackson wanted the footage to be released to public so that his fans could better understand him. Excerpts from the tapes will be aired on NBC's "Dateline" and "Today" on Friday and Tuesday.
Michael befriended and dated Madonna in the early 1990s but wasn't smitten by her charm.
"I think she (Madonna) likes shock value and she knows how to push buttons on people," he told Boteach during an interview. "I think she was sincerely in love with me and I was not in love with her. She did a lot of crazy things. I knew we had nothing in common.
"She is not sexy at all. I think sexy comes from the heart in the way you present yourself."
Interestingly, Michael believed Madonna was jealous of him like several other stars.
"They admire you and know you are wonderful and great because they are jealous, because they wish they were in your shoes. Madonna is one of them. She is jealous. She is a girl, a woman and I think that's what bothers her...
"I get the fainting and adulation and she doesn't."
At one stage Michael contemplated dating Elizabeth Taylor but he feared the 27-year age gap between them would make the media "mean and nasty."
The one woman Michael admired was the late Princess Diana.
"I thought she was very special - very feminine and classy. She was my type for sure, and I don't like most girls. There are very few I like who fit the mould. It takes a very special mould to make me happy and she was one of them."
Michael claimed to Boteach that he had the power to heal sick kids, a belief that bordered on the delusional.
"I've seen children just shower all over me with love. They want to just touch me and hug me and completely just hold on and cry and not let go . . . and mothers pick their babies and put them into my arms -- 'Touch my baby, and hold them, touch my baby, touch my baby.' "
It's a shame he felt that way, but she made similar statements of this nature back in '91. They just didn't click, and she was at the peak of her obnoxiousness back then, but I think they could have forged a better friendship had they interacted later in life. Their personal circumstances gave them two very strong and very polar personalities.
Anyways, a part of me thinks he was always a superior artist to her, but a part of me is also really hurt by the sexist attitude he has in those remarks.
But we all know Madonna was a major bitch back then...
I can imagine those moments of these two together. Madonna probably trying to get all the attention, and Michael being too shy and overwhelmed by her.
somebody just lied to get attention 
