I do not believe anyone should judge Michael in this addiction matter. Now taking things that are presented to us by the media as fact, let’s just go along for a minute, we have no idea how the addiction started and we certainly did not walk Michael’s shoes so we cant say either what we would have done in his place.

I am going to admit some personnal stuff here in hopes that maybe some can just begin to comprehend or maybe I will simply be classified as an odd ball for opening up on this. I have MS and it is a well known fact that people with MS are more likely to have ups and downs and are prone to get depression and more than once in their life. So I’ve been severely depressed, you know when it hurts so bad that your almost entire upper body is in pain, it really hurts. So then starts the very fun cycle of it, you get insomnia, you are exhausted both mentally and physically so everything that happens seems to be amplified like at least 10 times. Then goes all you mental clarity, it’s hard to even think and entirely resolve any issue, by the time you are able to figure out a plan you no longer have the energy required. That’s when all breaks loose, it is so difficult to get back up there when you are down so low and dont have the energy to make all the efforts required. That being said I want to point out that I have a lot less to be concerned about than Michael Jackson did so I would find easy to believe that when you know you just cant seem to do it on your own and so much is at stake you might start considering your doctors recommendations and be tempted to take the meds. However many times they omit to mention that they can be addictive, they probably have valid reasons to do so and are well intentionned, nonetheless fact is fact. Considering as well the fact that some people are more prone to get addicted to different things I think it is fair to say that some get hooked and become dependant and the irony of it all is that the more meds you take the resistent you become and the more you need to take to obtain the same initial effects. When you become dependant you basically feel like you need it to function wich becomes in the person’s mind a bare necessity. At this point as anyone with a good strong addiction to drugs you will do what it takes to obtain your drugs wich have become bare necessities for you to make sure you are able to function everyday. And when you are able through your connections, money or power to get what you want as a drug addict, you will do. I think anyone who is disagreeing here either has very little knowledge about addictions or is just plain refusing to give Michael the benefit of the doubt. I am sorry if I offend anyone here as it is in no way my intention and I say this in all honesty. I do not like to judge people as it is not my place, I’m pretty sure god will take care of that when the time comes. I am simply putting down here the basics of drug addiction and it is what it is. An addict does not think like the average person with a clear mind and therefore in my honest opinion they are no longer acting and thinking as they would if they were ABLE to be there real inner person before the entire addiction problem started. It is not as easy as we all can put it “well all he has to do is get him self clean and get off it”. That takes an enourmous amount of courage and grounding wich is often obtained on a voluntary basis and usually requires a lot of help from close people around the person. To my understanding, wether it was Michael’s fault or not and I am not going to start a debate on that, Michael had nobody close enough to him on a regular basis other than his children to fit the role. As much as he loved his children it was a battle between the drugs and himself and the drugs always seem to come out on top if you dont have those close grounding, people to you. And as I said already, addiction is what it is. Who does not have a child, parent, uncle, friend or co-worker who has never had to fight this battle? We all know how it goes if we dare think about it and admit it to ourselves and let’s please not forget Michael was before anything else a human being, beyond the fame, beyond the king of Pop, beyond the money, and beyond anything else one could think of here. Someone needed to put aside their personal fears of being alineated from Michael’s life and grab the bull by the horns and get through to him if he was on such a bad path as most say he was. There was a life to be saved here, it was no time to be thinking of a big pay check or the pride of being seen with such a superstar or of being able to say Michael was a good friend or an acquaintance. I want to say here as I am done trying to explain this addiction here that I KNOW it dont mean Michael could have been saved, you see it all the time, the drugs are powerful and too often win. What saddens me is I have not heard from one single person yet that they have tried to that extent to help Michael, those who did try as far as I heard so far sure backed off in a hury when they felt the relationship being threatened by their insistance on the issue. I do not condemn those people either we are all only human and we all face these difficult choices and decisions and fear is powerful whether we like to admit it or not.

All this being said, yes I know it is a very long reply, I want to make it very clear here that none of this reflects my opinion on wether Michael was a drug addict or not. As I mentionned at the very beggining this reply is based on assuming one goes along with what has been presented to us by variousl different people. I am going to save my opinion for myself, I simply wanted to inform people a little about drug substance abuse cause I know to well first hand what can lead you to such a problem. My father is an AA and my brother is a cocain addiction survivor so I’ve seen a lot. I myself do not take drugs other than the ones prescribed by my physician from time to time and my daily MS injections, I do not have an alchool problem either only a few drinks a year at the very most. I feel kinda duhh having just mentionned this stuff on my drug/alchool use but at the same time I felt it was so necessary if I didn’t want people to judge me as a basket case and not take my words seriously thinking that I am a junkie deffending another junkie.

I just hate when people judge people, we dont have the right to do it and we dont know what goes on between closed doors, more importantly it is none of our business what goes on behind other peoples closed doors unless a crime against someone is being committed. Before anyone even wants to get started on the completely different issue here of child molestation I simply want to say I am not debating that issue here but rather sharing my knowledge and personal experience on addictions.

Please everyone, Michael was discussed and judged more than enough when he was in the limelight, please give him so peace and respect now. It is all in god’s hands now and we are not changing anything that has already been done nor are we helping in anyway. So bottom line, to continue spreading Michael’s dirty laundry all over the place for the world to see or to keep judging him, nothing good is or can come out of this judgemental behavior agains Michael.

It’s all for love and peace.

That level of tolerance indicates chronic and frequent use of the drugs as one does not build tolerance without repeated use of the drugs.

Whether one calls him an addict or dependent on the drugs, he took too much and he took too often.

That is addiction. That is what killed him.

reading this book there were things i found very annoying, i felt like shmuley was creating the answers for michael, shmuley would ask a question many times and it seemed like michael would answer and would be cut off and shmuley would create an answer and michael would agree. even if that is how michael felt, i would like to hear michael say it

another thing that really bothered me was how shmuley would seem in awe of michael in the interview, but in his own little narrative he was so critical and almost extremely judgemental, i was in shock of some of the things shmuley said, almost as if there weren’t more than right answer or belief to something, for instance, michael believing hitler couldve been changed, i actually agreed with that even before i read the book, i have always believed that if something can be learned, with time, it can be ‘unlearned’, and shmuley even said that michael was thinking, or was thinking that he was like, the messiah, because he believed he could help change someone? really?

i understand drug addiction, and i understand bad money spending, but shmuley made michael out to be a complete lost soul, when he actually had a great soul, with good intentions, there was one part of the book where shmuley said “he was just another self-absorbed celebrity” and another part was talking of his extreme generosities, and went on to say how humble he believe michael was

i know he did say his reasoning behind creating the book, he said that this was FOR michael, but i did feel like so many parts of this book were against michael, i felt some parts were pretty slanderous, and the question always sticks in my mind why it was released just in time in michael’s height of his death

I thought it was beautifully written. I cried while reading the book. I knew MJ was hurting but, not this much. I always wanted to meet him….to hung him and say “I love you for compassion and kind-heart, not your celebrity.”.

Mr. Boteach expressed that he will give (profit made for the book) to charity.
He also stated, this was MJ’s wish.

True or not….hasn’t this book brought you closer to Michael Jackson?

If I saw him walking down the street for any reason – even to talk to someone, I would hug him, tight and tell him “I am here. I am here.” Not because he was The King of Pop, because he was Michael.

I love MJ the singer but, I LOVE Michael the person. When he passed, he took a piece of me with him.

I will and always remember Michael as a humanitarian & a wonderful soul we had the honor to have in our generation.

I would love to visit his grave site (w/permission of the Jackson Family) to touch the tombstone and say “I miss you Michael. I am here for you. You are not alone. I love you.”.

I bet you are thinking since he died OMG the world is so wrong, why that 10 years old is crying for michael jackson if he never sow him performing, why in many countries were mobs for mike? they don’t even know him! Why are those beautiful young girls crying over him? why in youtube there are millions of people searching and honoring him? They are crazy, definetively there is not other explanation. Is it what you saying, right?

Please note that no narcotic prescription medicine like Xanax, Demerol, and Oxycotin, nor alcohol and no pills were found his stomach. All of that was media lies and quickness to make the King of Pop look like the worst drug addict the world has ever seen.

Just like before, the media owes Mr. Jackson and his family a huge apology!

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