Jackson later agreed that his childhood had been torn apart and he had trouble growing up.
On stage he was at home for me, he was more comfortable and still is & rdquo; Jackson started. 'But once I got off stage I felt really sad.
Lonely, sad, having to deal with popularity and all that. There were times when I had good times with my brothers, pillow fights and things like that, but I always used to cry from loneliness.
It was from when I was very little, eight or nine. Yes, when we all first became famous.
So it was not & rsquo; what it seemed to be like for the rest of us? & rdquo; Winfrey asked his subject, who smiled.
It's wonderful, there's a lot of wonder in being famous, you travel the world, you see things, you meet people, you go places, it's great, & rdquo; Jackson was excited. “ And then there's the other side, which I'm not complaining about, [but] there's a lot of rehearsal, you have to spend a lot of your time, give a lot to yourself.Reflecting on an earlier conversation with Suzanne de Passe, the Bad singer's former music producer, Winfrey claimed it sounded like Jackson's 'childhood' was lost.
Pausing, Jackson agreed: 'Well, I've realized, especially now, that we'd do our education, which was three hours a day, with a tutor, and then right after that I'd go to a studio. recording and recording, and recording for hours and hours until it was time to go to sleep.
'So it would be at night.' And I remember going to the
recording studio, there was a park across the street and I saw all the kids
playing and they were making noise and I was crying.