14 DAY TRIAL // The other day, an interview with Aaron Carter surfaced online, causing quite a ruckus with Michael Jackson fans. Carter was quoted as saying that Michael had given him cocaine and alcohol at a party, when he was just 15 years old.
The interview was taken by OK! Magazine editor Daphne Barak and had Aaron attribute some of the issues he dealt with later on in his adult life (namely, addiction) to the weird behavior Michael Jackson displayed around him when he was just an impressionable teen.
As it turns out, none of the things attributed to Aaron ever came out of his mouth during the interview that took place in Marbella, Spain.
Barak posted a video of the interview online on her official webpage – and it shows Aaron repeatedly denying that Michael ever gave him drugs, or that the late singer had a problem with drug abuse.
“It was fun, ‘cause I don’t think Michael ever really got a chance to do stuff like that,” Aaron said, admitting that he saw Michael drink some alcohol at the party.
He too had “some” but it wasn’t provided by the late singer.
“I personally didn’t see any drug addiction issues [with Michael],” Carter says when pressed for details on whether he had any idea Michael was addicted to drugs, as speculation in the media would have it.
“I mean, there was definitely things that were just different, you know, weird. The time that I spent with him, yes, he was fine,” Aaron insists when Barak pushes him with questions about drug abuse.
Clearly, this is the exact opposite of what was printed in the press, as coming from the same Aaron.
“He gave me cocaine. I felt weird about that and other stuff… We spoke afterwards, hours and hours, on the phone. I admired Michael, but his behavior bothered me a lot. Then my mother called the police,” OK! quoted Aaron as saying.
In the same interview, Carter said he wanted to “protect” Michael’s legacy and even sang a song in his memory. You can see it here.
As of this moment, the original OK! magazine article with the erroneous quotes is still online.