Singer Elton John Calls Michael Jackson ‘Mentally Ill’

Legendary singer Elton John has called late pop icon Michael Jackson “mentally ill” in his upcoming memoir. In the memoir titled, “Me”, Elton John also described MJ’s company disturbing, reports “dailymail.co.uk”.

Elton John developed friendship MJ early on in his career. He has now admitted that over the years, he became concerned about the way in which he started to “sequester himself away from the world”.

“I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14... He was just the most adorable kid you could imagine. But at some point in the intervening years, he started sequestering himself away from the world, and away from reality the way Elvis Presley did,” he writes in the book.

The singer continued: “God knows what was going on in his head, and God knows what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of, but every time I saw him in his later years I came away thinking the poor guy had totally lost his marbles. I don’t mean that in the light-hearted way. He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.” (IANS)

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