March 30, 2003: Lisa Marie Presley defends Michael Jackson from Martin Bashir doc and reacts to Maureen Orth “Vanity Fair” article about Michael paying for voodoo and animal sacrifices to curse his enemies
“But the radio hosts Ms. Presley spoke to often seemed more interested in asking her about Mr. Jackson, whose appearance on ABC's "20/20" in a documentary by the British journalist Martin Bashir had recently triggered a fresh round of controversy about his obsessive interest in children, his plastic surgeries his all-around weirdness. She took the inquiries in stride.
"I walked away from that a long time ago," she said of her marriage to Mr. Jackson, whom she divorced in 1996 […] "I was hoping that we'd be more equal" she continued about Mr. Jackson. "I was in love with him at the time - and he doesn't always act the way he did in that interview. I did feel bad about that - the director followed him around for eight months and edited it down to two hours. You can manipulate it any way you want. I mean, somebody could do that to me. But I'm sure l had the same reaction everybody else did when they saw it: it was a train wreck. I don't have to clean up that mess.
"Then I read about all this voodoo stuff”, she went on, alluding to a recent Vanity Fair article that claimed Mr. Jackson had paid someone to cast spells on people he thought of as his enemies. "I thought, What the hell's going on now? I can't even follow it, it's so crazy. I have no sympathy for that."
