Brooke Shields Thought Michael Jackson Would Jump Out of His Coffin
Posted by Richard Head
BROOKE Shields expected Michael Jackson to jump out of his coffin at his memorial service.
The actress fought hard to contain her grief when she gave an emotional speech at the public event held at the Los Angeles Staples Center to commemorate the late Thriller singer’s life following his death from acute Propofol intoxication last June.
“Did you see me shaking?” Brooke said. “Well, they didn’t tell us that the coffin was going to be there.
“I thought — because there was a fantasy moment in my head — that he was going to jump out and start the concert.”
Brooke, 44 — who befriended Michael when she was 13 — also revealed she hadn’t been in touch with the King of Pop for a long time before his death, but often wanted to call him and offer her help.
“I had not only not spoken to him, I hadn’t seen him in years,” she said.
When asked if she had wanted to call Jackson to offer her help, Brooke replied, “I did that, you know, 20 years ago. I mean… the rhetoric didn’t change, you know, I did that way back when, but anyway, I did my best.”
The Lipstick Jungle star was asked by Michael’s mother Katherine to give a speech at the service, but she ignored the words she was asked to deliver in favor of giving a more personal account of their friendship during her seven-minute address.
“They had written me out something,” Brooke explained. “But I wrote my own thing and just had to do my own thing. I felt honored to be a part of it.”
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