Michael Jackson attacks his family in secret tapes (Tape PartI included)

In what seems to be Part I of a number of secret video tapes that Michael Jackson created for his biography (and revealed by News of The World) he speaks the ugly truth about his family, including his own child abuse by his father.

News of The World will be releasing more of these tapes in weeks to come, but here’s a few of the key points that Michael made in these tapes:

He branded his Jackson 5 brothers “lazy moaners” who just sat around relying on him to make them money.

“The brothers didn’t give me support,” he snipes on one tape. “We’d be working on a TV show or video and they’d be sitting around moaning and groaning but I’d be watching and learning.

 ”It takes a talent, but some people are lazy and don’t want to develop anything.”

ON MARLON: “People used to call him ugly and make fun of him – and people would say, ‘Which brother is that one?’. “He constantly imitates me on stage. Whatever I do he’ll do right after me. I hate when that happens because he looks too “doo woppy” and so old-fashioned.”

 ON JERMAINE: “Jermaine would either be looking for girls or going along with the jokes”. 

As a songwriter he lambasted him for “always letting outside influences change what style and beauty he’s created. “It always ends up not being his creation and changed in some type of way.”

 ON JACKIE: ”He approaches everything with so much negativity and doubting.”

ON RANDY (youngest brother): “He doesn’t listen and is real hard-headed”. “You say it’s dark – he’ll say it’s daylight. And he has to be macho. I’ll never forget the day we had a meeting with our producer who said you’ve got to stand up on your own. “Randy stood up and said: “I’m a man’ – we are all started laughing.”

  ON HIS MUM: “She disappointed me. She did an interview (about him). I don’t like her to talk. It’s none of those people’s business.”

“She wished she would have had all boys. She told my sisters that – and they agreed! That’s how my sisters are – they are prejudiced against other girls.”

ON LA TOYA: “To me she is Mrs Nice and Nasty. I come in her room (and she says), ‘You can’t sit on her couch, sit on the bed or walk on the carpet’, She wants to keep everything fresh.” “If you cough at the table she covers her plate. If you sneeze forget it, she’s in another room. If you clear your throat, you can’t do that while she is eating.”

 ”And forget about going to the movies. She doesn’t understand what I see in Star Wars, Close Encounters or Jaws.”

 ON JANET: “Janet is a tomboy. That is why it kills me to see her off and married (to producer James DeBarge in 1984. Marriage was over in a year). We did everything together and were just alike. We write a whole schedule for the day and follow it. It’s a terrible loss.”

 ON DAD JOE: “I would suffer if I had to spend a whole day with him.

“He would sit in a chair with a belt or a switch and we’d do our performance. And if we messed up he hit you.”  

ON HIMSELF: “They (the brothers) thought I was naïve, soft and sweet and wimpy, but I wasn’t. It was me who went to Berry Gordy (Motown’s chief) and said, ‘We’re gonna leave’. “I am the captain of my ship. I take suggestions and listen to what everyone has to say, but the final decision is mine.”

 Except from when he did the famous Pepsi commercial in which his hair was set on fire. “I hate Pepsi. I hated doing that dumb commercial,” he said. “The only thing I liked about it was working with the children.”

TO BE CONTINUED…