Presley-Jackson

A dedicated post for the celebration of the 20 years that Michael and Lisa’s love got intertwined in marriage. A look at all the different stages their eternal flame encountered along their love story. Enjoy!

Created By: ineffablemjj

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1998

‘How’s it going with Debbie?’ Lisa wanted to know, according to what she later recalled to a friend.

Half-heartedly, Michael said it was ‘okay’ with his wife. He had another glass of red wine, his fourth. He told her that as much as he cared for Debbie, when he was with her, ‘I focus on what I don’t have, instead of what I do have. I just want to be in love. Like what you and I had. I was so afraid,’ he told her, according to her memory. ‘I know now that I closed you out. What can I do now?’

Lisa says that she didn’t respond. She no longer had the answers to his problems – not that she ever did – or the solution to his life. There wasn’t much she could propose, except perhaps the most basic of offerings between two people with a history who still care about each other. ‘I want you to know,’ she told him, ‘that if you ever need a friend, I’m here for you. You have such a good heart, Michael,’ she added. 

‘I love her,’ Michael told one of his associates the next day, ‘more than anything, more than anyone, I still love Lisa. We have such a strong connection.’ His eyes filled with tears. ‘That was my one shot, man,’ he said. ‘I did a lot of foolish things. I may never get another shot, you know?’ ‘In another world, we would be together,’ Lisa would say, ‘just not in his world, I’m afraid.’ 

“I  was really in this lioness thing with him - I wanted to protect him. Naive as hell. I never thought for a moment someone like him could actually use me.”  - Lisa Marie 

November 1996

The day before Michael married Debbie Rowe, he telephoned Lisa in Los Angeles to tell her of his plans. He still cared deeply about her, he said, and didn’t want her to ‘read about the wedding in the papers’. He felt dreadful, he told her, about the way their relationship ended, “with us saying mean things to each other. And now I’m moving on,” he told her, according to a later recollection, “but I don’t really feel that it’s right, not without your blessing.”