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

Michael: Well, I haven't read LaToya's book. I just know how to l’amour my sister dearly. I l’amour 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 toi 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 toi 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 toi to play with other than your brother's, toi 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 toi they're pulling your cheeks and how cute; how adolescence going through that canard stage where everything's awkward, and I'm wondering when toi 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 étoile, star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that toi were. toi start to grow, and they want to keep toi 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 toi 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 l’amour my father but I don't know him.