Lisa Marie Presley Speaks About Marriage To Michael Jackson
Lisa Marie Presley has taken to her MySpace Blog to tell the world that her marriage to Michael Jackson was real – despite the public’s disbelief that the 20 month marriage was a sham back in 1994.
“I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.
Our relationship was not “a sham” as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a “Normal life” found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.
I wanted to “save him” I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.
His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn’t know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.
At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.
He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.
When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad.
Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson’s being or actions.
I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him.
I was in over my head while trying.
I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.
The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.
After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret.
Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.
At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.
As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted.
Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him.
He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.
I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now.
He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be.
I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is.
The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right.
I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.
~LMP
What a heartbreaking letter. The guilt and despair that Lisa is feeling right now can be felt by anyone that reads it. This is a very difficult time for all those close to Michael Jackson. Hopefully they will all band together to support each other.
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June 26th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
this day is there for everyone in this world,what we can do is just to pray
for his soul.
May God bless
June 29th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Dear Lisa,
Thank you so much for your honesty, and allowing me to look in the
intimate details of your marriage with Michael Jackson. How lucky
you were to have married each other, and shared a like together.
Two loving and gifted people, with love in their hearts. I feel
sure Michael is in Heaven now, and has found the peace in death,
he so desperately longed for, and never found. I am sure you will
always be with him in his heart, and he, in yours.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Yes it is good to hear now that some other person other
than his family, actually thought he was a person.I am from South Africa, and have always respected this person(MJ) and decided a long time ago that yes, he may have gotten carried away with the facial changes, but I loved him still, as none of this took away from what he did for others.I am only sad that this world would have loved to hear when he was alive, that Lisa Marie Presley, loved MJ, and he loved her, and that it was not a sham.
I believe this man inherited the spirit and sould of a another great being, and that MJ came here to do what he was supposed to, and that was to fix things, to restore hope, but society has their view of how a person should be, any deterrant from that deems a person WACKY, STRANGE, and the like.Truly we all have bad behaviours at some time, we all do….but its true to say that ‘there was nothin strange bout MJ, what was strange is what he had to deal with’, he dealt with it, and survived 50yrs of all that garb.I would have loved to see LMP speak at his memorial, he deserved that. Regards
July 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Lisa is such a lucky girl as she have been married to the king of pop that most people idolized. And I know MJ is lucky as well to have Lisa loving him deeply. maybe most of us will be at peace if the report of MJ will be out to find out what’s the cause of death. i knw many of us (including me) cant get over his death and still in denial of what happend.. i am 23 yrs old and i honestly say that when MJ was still alive, i am not an avid fan, but i like his songs and his dance. Never thought that he is a genius and one of a kind.. when i was young, i can hear bad news about him but i cant be bothered as i know media doesnt ALL the time tells the truth. Until, he died, and ive started searching about him.. After reading, watching a lot of things about him, “I love him more” (I’l borrowed from him) more and more that I cant evn sto talking about him and cant stop watching his vids and following up about his case. I am praying hard that people would stop saying and posting such unhuman comments about him, cause he is not here to defend himself, I do respect people’s opinion and views, but i think its very unhuman to call him such “awful things” which we didnt or i jsut say cant even prove to ourselves that what we hear about him is true. MJ is just a human, he got flaws too. So do u…
August 29th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Lisa Marie;
It’s easy to be contrite after someone’s passing. But when it really mattered, when MJJ was still he was alive, assailed by the press and by horrendous false accusations of molestation, where were you? —You were on Larry King saying you “once were his staunch supporter” and that the proceedings were a “blessing in disguise”. Indeed you showed yourself to be a False-face back-stabber in his darkest hour.
To us, you just used MJJ to gain some attention to yourself and hoped he might work the miracle of launching some semblance of your own career. When that did’t happen (because of your lack of actual talent), you up and left, deserted the man. Call that LOVE??? —Not by any genuine standards. So stop trying to posture yourself as “saint” and “saviour”to MJ or to ANYONE. You clearly weren’t and aren’t. Try some honesty for a change Lisa, you’re merely Elvis’s progeny/beneficiary — period, and then do bow out finally, let our MJJ rest in peace now.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:38 am
Thank you Lisa,
I think you are a loving person. Remarkable too! I
so admire your story and sharing it with us. I think
the normal public really don’t get the real scoop of
MJ. I’m sure his life and yours is not what we all
have day to day. People wanting a part of him and you.
You are a very bright gal and I can only imagine the
turmoil you had at the time to make a decision to leave
the marriage.
How sad Michael didn’t realize what he had in you but
I’m sure he is a peace now. I shall keep you all in
my prayers. God Bless!