‘MJ wanted to forget past’

Doctor opens up about why late King of Pop bleached skin

MICHAEL Jackson (pic) bleached his skin to “erase his memory” of his alleged abusive father, according to the physician Dr Conrad Murray.

The late Thriller hitmaker, who lightened his skin and underwent a number of face reconstructions in a bid to look like a “northern athlete”, is believed to have undergone the transformations to try to escape the traumatic recollections of his childhood and the constant reminders of Joe Jackson, who tormented him for his African American facial features, and to distance himself from his parentage.

Speaking about the reason behind Jackson’s cosmetic surgery, Murray said: “In the book we talked about him running away from his memory. I used the word morphological changing and basically of course he was morphing himself, it doesn’t matter that his skin was bleached or whether his structural face is good or whether his nose it like a northern athlete. That may have been a mixture of things.

“But many times when he on his own he had more because he was trying to erase his memory.”

However, the music legend couldn’t escape his own thoughts and even contemplated undergoing a brain operation to be at peace with himself.

He explained: “But he could not erase his memory so that’s when he talked about the brain operation.”

Despite his various procedures, he revealed Jackson didn’t change his appearance to look like a “white man” because he spoke in “black language”, but to distance himself.

Murray – who was sentenced to four years in jail for the involuntary manslaughter of the King of Pop after administering a fatal dose of anesthetic Propofol in June 2009 – has admitted if he could back track on his life, he wouldn’t want to cross paths with the artiste. — BangShowbiz