It seems that after the Pepsi incident Michael kinda lost it. It led up to his pain killer and plastic surgery addiction. I'm also pretty sure it took quite the mental health toll on him. He suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his scalp and face
wow. you think someone would've got to him sooner with all the people there..
The real sad part of this is that he didn't want to do the commercial. His mom talked him into it because they were struggling financially and Pepsi paid him and his brothers 1.5 million each for it.
His self esteem issues started when he was young with his father, but this probably started the drug addiction. Just tragic. I had the biggest crush on him in the Blame It On the Boogie video. That smile.
But I've also never heard about this, so scary and sad. The fact that he was able to ever preform again is amazing. As far as drug addiction who knows, he was probably already experimenting but maybe this aided him a bit.
I've never seen this video, i've only heard jokes about this. I was like "when was his hair on fire", I never expected to actually see it This is so sad
But yeah, a lot of people talk about the psychological damage this had on him 
