14 DAY TRIAL // Late last week, Oprah aired the interview she did with Lisa Marie Presley, former wife to Michael Jackson, on their life together, what went wrong and, ultimately, why she didn’t even attempt to save him when he reached out to her.
Lisa Marie claimed in the interview that what she and Michael had was real love, and that their marriage was not a sham as the media speculated.
She also said she tried her best to understand him but that, until the day he died, she didn’t really know him because he was so shut away from her and the rest of the world.
In an e-mail written in 2007 that just ended up online, Karen Faye, Michael Jackson’s longtime makeup artist and stylist, and friend, paints an entirely different picture of Lisa Marie.
As she saw it, Lisa Marie was an “evil little princess” that tormented everyone with her impossible ways and her out of control jealousy. She may not even have loved Michael, though he literally went out of his way to make her happy.
“Lisa Marie is a very evil little girl. She was horrible to Michael, myself, and anyone who was around Michael. She was even jealous of her own children when they adored Michael,” Karen wrote in 2007.
“She was the one trying to manipulate Michael and his world. I never saw Michael so miserable as I did when he was married to Lisa,” Michael’s friend goes on to say.
As Karen puts it in the e-mail (now circulated online as genuine, though leaked), Lisa only used Michael’s name after the divorce to get publicity for herself.
Her behavior while married to Michael was inexplicable at best, Karen claims. Nothing seemed to work for her because she was very “confused” and, from what she’s saying, very troubled.
“she was a lovely person before they married. she pursued him with a vengence even when she was still married. she did not smoke or drink,” Karen says.
“as soon as they got married, she drank, smoked, wanted to fire everyone around Michael, and demanded he become a Scientologist. he bent over backwards to please her... he never could, she was just too miserable,” Faye says.
As expected, the leak of the e-mail did not fail to get a heated response from Michael Jackson fans online. Karen herself is not answering questions about the late star anymore.
But she will say just this: whatever she said about Lisa Marie a while back, she meant it – at the time. Things have changed since then, though.
“I am a better person now, and so is LMP, because we each have grown and learned. Neither of us is perfect yet ;)” Karen tweeted yesterday.