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Today I am going to talk about one of the best performers world wide, often referred to as The king of pop. Michael Jackson, has sold millions of albums, popularized the moonwalk and touched many hearts everywhere. Unfortunately, today we are not here to talk about the imprint he left on the world, were going to talk about his tragic childhood. Michael was very unique, people were suspicious to why he was so unusual? They forgot to acknowledge Michael suffered a very sad childhood. His childhood wounded him and made him behave in strange ways.He was abused verbally, emotionally and physically by Joe his father. Michael started singing at the age of 5. When Michael and his brothers became Jackson 5, thats when the abuse increased. Joe would sit there and watch them rehearse and if someone messed up he would tear them apart as Michael said in an interview. He would beat them with a belt,iron chords and anything in his sight when he was angry. He would chase them and slam them into a wall as hard as he could. Joe never seemed to realize the difference between a man and a little boy, the beatings he gave were as hard as if he was fighting someone his own size. Joe would emotionally abuse Michael by saying he was ugly and had a fat nose. Michael had many pimples growing up and Joe would rudely point them out. He would always say Michael had so many pimples and a fat nose and it wasn't from his side of them family. This made Michael extremely insecure about his appearance. He would always be seen around his house with his head down so no one saw his face. Joe pushed them to be famous because when he was younger he wanted to be famous. Since it didn't work out for him, he was living his dream through his kids. Due to Joe pushing them to be famous Michael missed out on a happy, playful childhood. When other kids were playing outside or going to school Michael was in the recording studio, busy in an interview or traveling. You would think it would be fun to be traveling jumping in and out of limousines at a young age but for Michael it traumatized him because it took away from his childhood. Michael says the Neverland ranch was built in order for him to always be a kid since he never really had a childhood. He always had kids around him so he can make them feel happy and so he himself can be a kid again. Those kids still sadly didn't help Michael feel better, he was still lonely and sad. He began abusing drugs because the fans, the people, the world were making fun of Michael every chance they got. It really hurt him when the world went against him because the world was all he felt love from. In an interview Michael said when he was on stage he loved it and felt loved. When he was off stage he was sad, lonely and felt nobody loved him as much as the fans. Michael continued being misunderstood, continued being mad fun of and continued being depressed. His depression got so bad he continued taking drugs and his doctor was actually prescribing the drugs to him, to help him cope with the pain. He was wounded and was never fully healed and unfortunately died with a broken heart. Many say that the overdosing of drugs killed him, if thats it then we the people killed him with the way we treated the sweetest man to have lived.

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