Interview Karen Faye und Michael Lee Bush - 25.Juni 2010 - abcnews

Am Freitag wird ein Interview mit Karen Faye zusammen mit Michael Lee Bush ausgestrahlt. Erste Ausschnitte gibt es hier bei ca. 2:20 Min zu sehen

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/justin-bieber-10958621

So far, ABC News is the lone network news division set to give up its June 25 primetime for Jackson. News magazine "20/20" will feature a new two-hour report chronicling the ongoing investigation into Jackson's death, as well as how his children are adjusting without their father.

The "20/20" special will also include interviews with Jackson's personal makeup artist, his stylists, and what the network calls a "new tour" of Neverland Ranch.
http://www.examiner.com/x-8357…n-programming-for-June-25

Hier noch der richtige Trailer von abc:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/vid…-2020-friday-98c-10970484

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/vid…ns-circle-rumors-11009138

Karen Faye and Michael Bush spoke exclusively to "20/20" about their 25-year-long friendship with Michael Jackson. All three are pictured here on the set for the "In The Closet" music video in 1992.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Mic…l-jackson-images-11003372

Erste Reaktionen zu dem Interview ( youtube- Version folgt noch

This is It Tänzer Chucky Klapow via facebook:

Zitat

Charles Klapow (Chucky Klapow)
"Bravo to Michael Bush and Karen Faye for finally, finally telling the truth on 20/20 tonight. While so many have been in such denial. The truth is finally being told."

Auf ABC lief eine 2 Stündige Doku, mit einem Interview mit Karen Faye und Michael Bush..

der link zu gesammten doku 20/20, Michael Jackson After Life ist hier:

http://hotfile.com/dl/50634282…fe.hdtv.xvid-2hd.avi.html

(download dauert ca. 2h...es gibt viele infos, die man schon aus anderen auch bei uns gezeigten dokus kennt)

ein Teil der Doku ist das Interview mit Faye und Bush, das hab ich übersetzt...keine leichte kost...

hab nur die teile mit dem interview übersetzt, datzwischen gibt es immerwieder einspieler und andere kommentare (manchmal in klammern..)

Frage von Mc. Fadden:Karen, die Fam. fragte dich, ob du Michael herrichten willst...
Faye:..ja, kein anderer hätte das tun können...
Frage: wie hast du es gemacht..
Faye: es war ein ehre das zu tun, eine ehre...ich wußte, wie er aussehen wollte (weint) und so habe ich es gemacht
Frage: dann habt ihr ihn angekleidet?
bush: wir hatten einen anruf von der familie, du warst mit Michael zusammen, wir brauchen dich für sein outfit - so dachte ich, wenn er mich je gebraucht hat, dann ist das jetzt.
Frage: was habt ihr ausgesucht?
bush: ich kann es nicht genau sagen, denn die familie will das es privat bleibt...alles, was seine lieblings "looks" in all den jahren waren
Frage: bist du stolz darauf
Bush und Tomkins: ja, sehr...
Faye: es war wunderschön...
Frage: gab es einen Handschuh?
Bush: nein, nein, Michael und der Handschuh, das war billie jean, das repräsentierte den song, das war nicht er selbst..
Frage: ihr habt nie damit gerechnet, die Personen zu sein, die ihn für seinen letzten Autritt zurecht machten...
Bush: ich habe nie erwartet, daß die wo die sonst die Kostüme machten das tun würden, ich dachte, ich reiche alles nur durch die tür und bin fertig..
Faye: und ich half dir..
Bush:.. irgendwann waren alle gegangen, so mußte ich helfen..ich half, ihn in den sarg zu legen...und für mich war es so..ok, ich mache das für meinen besten freund..

Frage: Karen, erzähle wie du ihn das erstemal getroffen hast
Faye: Ich traf in im sommer 1982
(für das Cover von Thriller und Michael hatte euinen kleinen tiger dabei))
Faye: ich war von dem tiger mehr fasziniert als von ihm, und ich glaube, er genoß es, das meine Aufmerksamkeit nicht ganz auf ihm war
Frage: du mußt ihn aber an dem tag "geflashed" haben..
Faye; ok, ich sagte ihm, das ich genau an dem tag auch tigerunterwäsche anhätte..
und er war so verlegen davon...aber ich denke, deshalb hat er mich für den nächsten job wieder genommen...
Frage: denkst du das?
Faye: ja, ich glaube schon...
Frage: er mochte menschen mit sinn für humor?
Faye: ja, absolut

Frage:Wie würdest du seinen stil bezeichnen
Tomkins: als: "ein Freiheitskämpfer zieht in den Krieg" (alle lachen...) ja, das ist wirklich gut...

Frage: da gibt es viele gerüchte ob er Medikamente mißbrauchte oder nicht, niemand war in einem engeren verhältnis zu ihm wie ihr drei...um das zu wissen. Bekannt ist, daß er nach dem Pepsi spot, wo seine Haare verbrannten, Schmerzmittel nehmen mußte..

Faye: das stimmt nicht, das ist nicht der zeitpunkt wo es wirklich anfing..

(Faye sagt, das der gebrauch von verschreibungspflichtigen Medikamenten 1993 begann, 9 Jahre nach dem Pepsi Unfall)

Faye: Kurz bevor der Dangeroustour hatte er eine OP (wegen den Narben), aber nicht genug Zeit zum ausheilen, wir mussten zum Flugzeug, nach Bangkok..und um das durchhalten zu können, fing er an Schmerzmittel zu nehmen, denn es war sehr schmerzvoll...

(aber in Bangkok kam es dann zu den ersten Vorwürfen..)

Faye: bisher redeten wir über körperliche Schmerzen, jetzt über seelische..
Bush: an dem Tag, wo das bekannt wurde, mußte er raus auf die Bühne, vor 80.000 Leute...

(Jackson machte seine Show, aber der Preis war hoch)

Faye: es war verheerend, jeden tag mußte er raus auf die bühne, vor der welt antreten, vor den medien, die berichteten er sei ein P***iler, aber er ging immernoch darausund mußte sich dem stellen. Die Mittel machten ihm es möglich, da durch zu kommen.

(aber er konnte auch nicht schlafen, sagen bush und faye.und die auswirkungen der kombination aus tour und vorwürfen zeigten sich abseits der bühne.)

Faye: sie müssen verstehen, sein adrenalinspiegel war manchmal so hoch, daß er 2 tage brauchte, bis er wieder schlafen konnte, bis das adrenalin von nur einer show wieder unten war,.

(zehn jahre später kamen die nächsten vorwürfe..Ausschnitt mit bashit.(gavin)..)

Bush: die meisten Menschen denken an was sexuelles wenn sie das wort bett hören...das ging nie in Michaeld kopf, immer wenn wie z.b. von einer award-show kamen, waren da 15 leute im bett, die sich filme oder eine show ansahen, was er gerade da hatte...

Frage: ihr habt nie in den 25 jahren die ihr mit ihm zusammen wart, irgendetwas gesehen oder gehört, was euch vermuten lassen könnte, das Michael p***il sei?

Alle: nein nichts

Faye: ich hätte sicher was bemerkt in all den jahren, aber da war nichts, überhaupt nichts...

fortsetzung folgt....

teil 2..

(Einspieler über den prozess...)
(faye half ihm jeden morgen vor dem termin bei gericht..)

Faye: bevor wir jeden morgen anfingen umarmten wir uns, und er weinte an meiner schulter und wir beteten zu gott, das er uns hift, und für die Menschen, das sie die wahrheit sehen würden, und dann machten wir weiter, ich wusch seine haare..

Frage: Karen, denkst du das er dachte, verurteilt zu werden?

Faye : er wußte es nicht, es war so gemein, er mußte jeden tag diesen weg ins gericht gehen, vorbei an all den kameras...

Frage: das Bühnen makeup ist die eine sache, aber das normale make up, ist eine andere sache, besonders während dem prozess, da hatte er eyeliner und lippenstift...

Faye: das ist ein sehr sensibeles thema überhaupt darüber zu sprechen, das sind dinge die sehr privat sind - er mochte nicht diese grenze, die sagt, was für Männer oder Frauen erlaubt ist. Er nahm einfach, was zur verfügung stand für die kunst sich zu verschönern.

Frage: die leute sagen, das er ich selbst als ein kunstwerk sah..

Faye: Absolut, das ist auch der grund für die Schönheitschirurgie, er hat immer versucht alles zu perfektionieren..

Frage: Schönheitschirurgen haben sein Gesicht betrachtet und sagen, daß die Nase "unfunktional" wurde wegen den wiederholten Eingriffen ...er mußte keine Prothese tragen?

Faye: nein das ist nicht wahr.. , oh nein, absolut nicht...

Frage: viele leute glauben das, aber..

Faye: da war dieses tape an seiner Nase, und jeder dachte dass sei es..

Frage: warum ein tape?

Faye: ich denke man braucht es nach einer Op, damit die Form erhalten bleibt...

Frage: die leute sagen, er ging zu weit...hast du nie zu ihm gesagt: Michael...

Faye: Ich dachte immer er ist schön, und ich habe ihm immer gesagt, das er schön ist..persönlich denke ich auch, er ging ein bisschen zu weit, aber ich verstand es..

Frage: zu der zeit, als ihr das erste mal darüber gesprochen habt, im märz wieder an die arbeit zu gehen bis zum mai - hast du veränderungen bemerkt?

Faye: Ja..ich denke er hatte angst..

Frage: Wovor..

Faye: ..wieder verurteilt zu werden..er sagte schon während dem Prozess "Ich kann nicht glauben, das die welt mir das antut..ich gebe alles was ich habe, ich gab ihnen meine musik, ich tanzte für sie..und das ist, was ich zurrück bekomme..."

(und sie sagte, das sie seit dem Prozess nie mehr solche angst in Jacksons Augen gesehen hat..)

Faye: und wenn es dann soweit ist, vor dem publikum zu stehen, all die Ängste und Zweifel, all die Grausamkeiten die die Leute für ihn hatten, ..er hatte angst..er wollte da nicht wieder durch müssen.

Frage: wenn man am ende in Michael Jacksons gesicht sieht, sieht es traurig aus..

Faye: er war sehr traurig..

Frage: was war mit seinem Gewicht?

Faye: er schlief nicht, und er verlor drastisch an Gewicht, in der woche bevor er starb ungefähr 15 Pounds, würde ich sagen

Frage: aber er hatte keine 15 Pounds zu verlieren...

Faye: nein..als ich ihn im März traf, dachte ich er sei zu dünn um eine show zu machen..aber ich dachte, wenn es los geht, wenn er auf der bühne ist, dann fängt er an zu essen und baut sich wieder auf..ich sprach mit kenny (ortega) ich sagte, wir müssen ihn Gewicht zulegen lassen, das war ein haupt anliegen

frage: also da gab es eine menge druck..sein erster auftritt seit dem Prozess....

Faye : viel druck...viel mehr shows als er wollte, als er zustimmte zu machen...

Frage: und das erste mal, das seine Kinder ihn sehen würden..also da war viel im spiel..

(und Jackson wollte sich selbst übertreffen, mit tanzen, kostümen und mit 3D filmen als teil der show)

Frage: Hattest du das gefühl, das er Drogen nahm, medikamente oder sowas, zu der zeit?

Faye: ich kann hier nicht wirklich was dazu sagen, wegen dem anstehenden prozess, das ist ein schwieriges thema..

Frage: waren sie besorgt über ihn?

Faye: ja, sehr besorgt über sein Wohlergehen, wirklich sehr besorgt

Frage: sie haben ihn schon in vergleichbaren Situationen erlebt, waren sie mehr besorgt?

Faye: absolut, mehr besorgt..

Bush: er nahm mich am arm und sagte..du versprichst mir, nichts zu sagen...

Frage: was zu sagen?

Bush: über das was ich sah...

Frage: haben sie es jemand gesagt?

Faye: Absolut..ich redete mit den leuten, die die Macht hatten etwas zu unternehmen, ich fühlte, das Michael körperlich nicht in der lage war, diese shows zu machen, in seinem zustand

Frage: denken sie, er war verwundbar genug, daß er hätte sterben können?

Faye: ja..ja

Bush: wenn jemand aufgepasst hätte... für mich war es ersichtlich, wie er auf der bühne war... beim proben

Frage: was war anders wie sonst?

Bush: viele neu Starts...wenn man ein musikvideo mit Michael machte, dann lief es durch, man brauchte keine 2 stück...(leider verstehe ich bush hier nicht so gut, aber er will wohl sagen, das Michael früher viel mehr power hatte und jetzt immermehrere anläufe brauchte...)

Frage: TII, es sieht aus, als ob michael in guter form ist...

Faye: es ist nicht so, wenn man die stücke ansieht, er hat für ein stück immer mehrere outfits an..sie mußten stückchen von verschiedenen probetagen nehmen um es zusammen zu bekommen, damit es aussah, als wäre er durch einen song durchgekommen - aber in echt kamen wir nicht durch einen kompletten song

(sogar aeg sagte sie seien auch besorgt, und sie hätten wegen seines gewichtsverlust jemand angestellt der sich um Michaels gesundheit/wohlerhgehen kümmerte..aber faye und bush sagen, Jackson sei alles andere als bereit gewesen..)

Faye: ich glaubte nicht, das er eine show machen konnte..

Frage: und das war nicht der Michael Jackson mit dem sie 25 jahre gearbeitet hatten?

Faye: nein, er hatte nicht die kontrolle die er sonst hatte

Frage: wann haben sie es erfahren?

faye: kenny kam und sagte wir so lten alles fertig machen für die proben..man war erst nicht sicher, was vorsich ging..lass uns weitermachen wie gewohnt...ich ging wieder in den makep raum und kenny kam aus seinem büro...und er nahm mich in die arme und hielt mich fest und flüsterte in mein ohr..."er ist gegangen....wir haben ihn verloren..".Ich bin zusammengebrochen...

Frage: denken sie, er mußte sterben oder hätte er gerettet werden können..

Faye: ich denke, wenn die Leute auf ihn geachtet hätten...wäre er noch bei uns

hat michael bush nicht entlassen....und karen auch......marion...klär mich auf.

ich glaube nicht, dass sie ihn geschminkt hat....schon gar nicht 9 stunden lang......sie muß ja auch sehr eifersüchtig gewesen sein.
und noch mal : wenn sie sagt: wenn die leute ? mehr auf ihn geachtet hätten, dann wäre er noch bei uns...........und ?...wo war sie dann???

Hier das Transcript ( leider momentan nur auf englisch )

MICHAEL JACKSON: AFTER LIFE;
JACKSON'S INNER CIRCLE ADDRESSES RUMORS

CHRIS CUOMO, ELIZABETH VARGAS

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (NEW YORK, NY USA), JIM AVILA (NEW YORK, NY USA), CHRIS CONNELLY (NEW YORK, NY USA)

CONTENT: MICHAEL JACKSON, BUSH, TOMPKINS, FAYE

CHRIS CUOMO (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Good evening and welcome to the second hour of our Michael Jackson anniversary special. We're going to get personal now and begin with three people whose connection to Michael Jackson was hands on for over 25 years.

ELIZABETH VARGAS (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Only they saw him as he really was in life and in death, without the glamour, without the makeup. Tonight, Cynthia McFadden has their inside stories. These are the people who prepared Michael Jackson during and after life.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) It was the most private of times for the most public of people. Michael Jackson's family and closest friends had come together at Forest Lawn Cemetery to bid him a final farewell. To prepare Jackson, his family had turned to the three people who'd been dressing him and making him up for more than a quarter century. Dennis Tompkins, Michael Bush, and Karen Faye.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Karen, the family called you and asked you to make Michael Jackson up.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yeah. Nobody else could have.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) How did you do it?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

It was an honor to do it. It was an honor to do it. I knew how he wanted to look. So I did. For his family, for his children.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And you all dressed him?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Yeah, the family called and said, you've worked with Michael for so many years and we need you to do his outfit. And you're going, like, okay, if he ever needed me, he needs me now.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So, what did you pick?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Well, the only thing I can say at this point, because the family wants to keep...

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

His most favorite.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

...wants to keep it, there's elements of everything that was his favorite looks over the years. Everything was new.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Were you proud of it?

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Very. Very, very.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

(Off-camera) It was beautiful. There had to have been a glove.

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Mm-mm.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) No?

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

No, he didn't want that.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

See, to Michael, the glove was "Billie Jean." That represented that song. That wasn't...

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Not himself.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

That's not Michael, that's the song, that's my performance, that's "Billie Jean."

CLIP FROM KAREN FAYE'S PERSONAL VIDEO

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

You want to put on the jacket?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

You wanna put on the jacket?

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And these were people who knew the man behind the music.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Michael Bush, you're gonna like this. This is you working.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Knew him stripped of the artifice he so cleverly showed the world, unguarded moments captured by Karen Faye.

MICHAEL JACKSON (KING OF POP)

I'm not lit properly. This isn't fair.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Oh, that's right. Where is the bounce card?

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) ABC News paid to license footage and photos from his three friends' private collections. His inner circle was determined Jackson would exit as the world had known him, as a showman.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

The work that me and Karen did with Michael at Forest Lawn I think bonded us for life.

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Nine hours, wasn't it?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Nine hours.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Nine hours.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) You didn't know you'd be the actual person to dress him that last time.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

I never expected, even when we did the costume, to do that. I thought, you know, hand it through a door. I'm done.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

And then I assisted you.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

And I think the hardest thing is, I mean, they asked me to help. Everyone is gone. We have to get him in the coffin. So I had to help pick him up and place him in the coffin. And to me, it's like, well, I got to do this for my best friend.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) The final touch, Tompkins designed this crown to bid the King of Pop farewell.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) May I pick it up?

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Yes.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) It looks like (inaudible) here. It's not real, is it?

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

It's faux, faux Urman (PH).

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) It's a show crown.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Show crown.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) For perhaps the greatest showman of them all. You can't help but think he would have loved seeing his children proudly carry that crown.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

When the casket was brought in at Forest Lawn into the service, Prince and Paris and Blanket lifted it and put it on the center of the flowers on the coffin.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) That must have been a moment.

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Definitely.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Yeah.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) This is the first time Tompkins, Faye, and Bush have talked about their employer and friend.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So, Karen, tell me about the first time you met him.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I met him in the summer of 1982.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) She'd been called in to do his hair and makeup for the cover of "Thriller," which would become the biggest selling album of all time, and he'd brought along a surprise, a baby tiger.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I was more fascinated with that tiger than I was with him. So I think he really enjoyed that my attention wasn't totally focused on him.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) In fact, a little known fact, you flashed him that first day.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Oh, okay. I undid the top of my jeans and I just flashed - I happened to have worn some tiger underwear that day. And he went, ah. He was just so embarrassed by that. I quickly buttoned it up, but I think that's why he called me back the next job.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) You think?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I think so.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) He liked people who had a sense of humor.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes, absolutely.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) He also liked people who had a sense of style. For more than two decades, the majority of Jackson's most memorable outfits came out of the workshop run by Dennis Tompkins.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) If you had to sum up his style, what was it?

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Liberace has gone to war.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Liberace has gone to war.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Liberace has gone to war. There you go.

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

And I say that's pretty good.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) His genius as an artist is unquestioned, but we wanted to know about the persistent rumors that followed him.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) There's been a lot of talk about whether or not he was abusing drugs. Nobody was in a more intimate position than the three of you to know.

CLIP FROM PEPSI COMMERCIAL

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And popular wisdom was that after the Pepsi commercial, where his hair caught on fire, he had to take painkillers.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

That's not true.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) That's not true?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

That's not true because that's not where it initially started.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Faye insists Jackson's use of prescription drugs began in 1993, nine years after the Pepsi commercial.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Just before he went on tour for "Dangerous" he had an operation in order to help the scarring. But he didn't have enough time to heal. We were getting on a plane and going right to Bangkok. So in order to keep going, he started using some painkillers, because it was very painful when the nerve endings are severed.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Do you know what he was taking?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Oh, no. No, I don't.

Fortsetzung #2

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) It wasn't out in the open? It wasn't...

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

No.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

No, no.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) But it was while they were in Bangkok, Jackson's world exploded.

RON CLAIBORNE (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Police sources say the charges involve a 13-year-old boy.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Amidst reports that California authorities were investigating him for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

So now we're talking physical pain and now we're talking emotional pain.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

The day that that came out, he was stepping onstage in front of like 80,000 people.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Jackson went through with the performance, but the price was high.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

It was devastating because he had to go out every day in front of a world and the media who was telling everybody that he was a pedophile, but he still went out and had to face everybody.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Aided, Faye says, by painkillers.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

It gave him some sort of ability to get through it.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) But even then, Jackson couldn't sleep, say Bush and Faye, and the combined toll of the allegations and touring was showing, at least backstage.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

You have to understand his adrenaline was so intense, sometimes it would take him two days...

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

Mm-hmm, two days to go to sleep.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

...for his adrenaline to come down from one show.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) In 1994, Jackson settled out of court with his accuser, but nearly a decade later, yet another boy came forward, also alleging sexual abuse.

MICHAEL JACKSON (KING OF POP)

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) That remark from a British documentary was so incendiary, it fueled Jackson's prosecution.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

You say the word bed, a lot of people think sexual. And that was the farthest thing from Michael's mind. I mean, we would go do an awards show, you come back, everyone jump on there with 15 people on the bed watching the show or cartoons or whatever, a movie he had to show.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) You never saw, you never heard anything over the course of a 25-year relationship that made you think that Michael Jackson was a pedophile.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

No, nothing.

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

No.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Nothing. I absolutely feel I would have seen something over the years, but not a thing.

GRAPHICS: NOT GUILTY

CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Not guilty, a dramatic victory for Michael Jackson.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And after a three and a half month trial, Jackson was acquitted, but the taint of the accusation continued to linger. Tonight, for the first time, his friends reveal how devastating the trial was for him. They were there at Neverland every morning, getting him ready. Faye says the routine was always the same, beginning at 3:00 AM.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Before I washed his air, we actually knelt down on the ground and he put his arms around me and I put my arms around him and he would put his head right here, and weep. And we would pray for God to help us, and for people to know the truth. And then we would get up and wipe our tears, and I would wash his hair.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Do you think he thought he was going to be convicted, Karen?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

He didn't know. I mean, it was so vicious. He had to walk the red carpet into that courtroom every day in front of all the cameras.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And every day for that long walk, he had a new outfit designed by his old pals, delivered every morning at 6:00 AM, a boost for his morale.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

And after you got him dressed, it's like, we love you. No, I love you more.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) When we come back, new intimate details from his final weeks, from those who were at his side.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Did you think that he was vulnerable enough that he might die?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Yes?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) In his art, Michael Jackson played repeatedly with the idea of metamorphosis, from "Thriller" to "Black or White," to "Ghosts," where he becomes a middle-aged white guy. And looking back, it seems as if Michael Jackson viewed his own face as yet another canvas, another opportunity to explore change. For the first time tonight, we talk to the woman who knew his face almost as well as he did. Karen Faye, his makeup artist for more than 25 years.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Of course, stage makeup is one thing, but makeup on men in life is looked at as very peculiar. Especially during the trial, when he's wearing eyeliner and what appears to be lipstick.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

It's very sensitive for me to even talk about, because these are things that are very, very private. He didn't like the line that was drawn between what's allowed for men and what's allowed for women. He really was very androgynous in the sense that he just took whatever is available to enhance himself as art.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So, in some ways, people have said that he saw himself as an artistic canvas.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Absolutely, that's the explanation...

DENNIS TOMPKINS (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

That's nicely put, yeah.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

...also for the plastic surgery. He was always trying to perfect everything.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Plastic surgeons have looked at his face and said that the nose actually became almost nonfunctioning because of the repeated plastic surgery.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

That's not true.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) That's not true. He didn't have to wear a nose prosthesis?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

No. Absolutely not.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) But a lot of people believe it. So let's straighten it out.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

You know what it was? It was the tape that he used to wear on his nose. And everybody thought that was...

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Why tape?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Because I guess after plastic surgery, it keeps it in form or else it would expand.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Because a lot of people think he went too far. You never said to him, Michael...

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I thought he was beautiful, and I would always tell him I thought he was beautiful. Personally, I think it went a little too far. But, like, I never, ever, because I understood it.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Faye says she saw Jackson announce his new tour on television on March 5th of last year.

MICHAEL JACKSON (KING OF POP)

This is it.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And soon got a call from him, asking if she'd team up with him once again for their fourth tour together.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) From the time you first talked to him about going back to work in March to May, did you see a change?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Tell me about it.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I think he was frightened.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Of?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Being judged again. He said during the trial, "I can't believe the world is doing this to me." He said, "I gave everything that I had, I gave them my music, I danced for them, and this is what I get in return."

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And not since the trial, she says, had she seen such fear in Jackson's eyes.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

And when it really got down to standing up in front of an audience, all that fear, all that doubt, all that cruelty that people directed at him, he was afraid. He didn't want to go through that again.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) When you looked at Michael Jackson's face at the end, it looked sad.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

He was very sad.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) He was starting to lose weight.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Oh, he wasn't sleeping, and he was losing weight drastically. The week before he died, probably about 15 pounds, I would say.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And he didn't have 15 pounds to lose.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

No, no. In fact, when I met him in March, one of my very first concerns was that I thought he was too thin to really be able to do a show. But, you know, I thought, we'll have plenty of time once he starts working out, getting on the dance floor, he's gonna eat, he's gonna build himself up again. But I did tell Kenny Ortega, I said, "Kenny, we really have to get some weight on him."

Fortsetzung #3

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) The director, choreographer.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

And that was the main concern.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So there was a lot of pressure going into this.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

A lot of pressure.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) This was going to be his first major appearance since the trial.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

A lot more shows than he wanted or agreed to do.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And the first time his kids were gonna see it.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So there was a lot on the line.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And Jackson wanted to top himself. Better dancing. Better costumes. Even the 3-D movie as part of the show.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Did you also feel that he was taking drugs at that time? Medication of some sort?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I really don't, can't really go here, because of impending trial and things like that. So we can't, this is like a difficult area.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Well, were you concerned about him?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I was extremely concerned with Michael's well being. I was very concerned with his well being.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) You'd seen him in dicey situations before. Were you more concerned than you'd ever been?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Absolutely, a lot more concerned.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

He was, like, bone thin and he'd grab me on the arm and say, "You promised me you wouldn't tell."

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Tell what?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

What I'm seeing.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Did you tell anybody?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Absolutely.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) What did you say?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I was talking to the people who had the power to do something about it.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) What were your fears?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I feared that Michael was physically unable to do the shows in his condition.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Did you think he was vulnerable enough that he might die?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Yes?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Yes.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

There was just these telltale signs. When is someone going to pay attention? Because, to me, it was blatant.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) What was blatant?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

The way he was, like, onstage rehearsing.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) What was different about it?

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

A lot of start/stops. Usually when you did a music video with Michael, they'd load the camera full of film. They would run it until it ran out. You didn't do two bars of the song and stop. That was Michael's energy. He fed off of what was going on.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) He didn't have his usual stamina.

MICHAEL BUSH (JACKSON'S FRIEND)

No, and then you start speaking up, like she said, to the powers that be and it just seemed like it was falling on deaf ears or we'll fix that later, or there's more, something else would seem like it was more important.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Because when you see the video that was put out of the rehearsal of the "This Is It" concert, it sure looks like Michael Jackson is on top of the world.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Okay, it's great editing.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) It isn't the reality that we're seeing?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Absolutely not. Even if you look at the songs, the way they're edited, he has three different outfits on for one song in most. They were taking bits and pieces from different rehearsal dates to be able to put it together to make it look like he got through a song. But - we really didn't get through a whole song. I think maybe, I think we got through two ballads all together.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) And sure enough, here in the number "Smooth Criminal," five outfits for the same song. But ABC News spoke to three of Jackson's dancers who, in the final rehearsal before he died, say Jackson was going all out. And that they were shocked by his death. As for his weight loss, the concert's producers, AEG, say they, too, were concerned, and hired someone to monitor his eating. But Faye and Bush still insist Jackson was nowhere near ready.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I didn't think he could do a show.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And this was not the Michael Jackson that you had worked with for 25 years.

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

No. He didn't have the control that he was used to having.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) On the 25th of June last year, Karen Faye was waiting for Jackson at the Staples Center to begin rehearsals, when she got the call she dreaded. Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital.

REPORTER (MALE)

Michael Jackson was brought here in full cardiac arrest.

REPORTER (MALE)

And is now in a coma at the UCLA.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) When did you find out?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

Kenny kind of instructed us to keep going and rehearsing and getting ready. Do what we're supposed to do. We're not sure what's going on right now. Let's just carry on as usual. I was headed back to my room, my makeup room, and Kenny came out of his office, and he put his arms around me and held me up and whispered in my ear, "He's gone. We lost him." And my knees just collapsed.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Do you think Michael Jackson needed to die? Do you think that was inevitable, or could he have been saved?

KAREN FAYE (JACKSON FRIEND AND MAKEUP ARTIST)

I think if people paid attention, we'd still have him.