Lisa Marie Presley 'Didn't Understand' Her Relationship With Michael Jackson

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 21st 2010 05:00PM

Lisa Marie Presley and Oprah Winfrey sat down in the English countryside to discuss her ex-husband Michael Jackson after his shocking death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs last year.

Presley explained why she wanted to talk about Jackson now. "Every time I've ever had an interview in the past, I tend to get very defensive because I was usually promoting something and it would always cross into my personal life."

"I wanted to sit and really have a conversation about things that are more on a personal level, before I do have an album coming out," she said.

"I didn't understand my relationship with him," Presley admitted of how she felt when she was with the King of Pop from 1994 to 1996.

She realizes now why people though their relationship was a sham. "To some degree, he was a master at manipulating a little bit with the media. I understand that nobody really knew who I was. They just assumed I was going along with something he would be doing."

"He was conditioned to get himself where he needed to go for his career and with his talent. He became very good at making and creating and pupeteering and manipulating to some degree," Presley continued. "I always confused that manipulation thinking that that manipulation meant that he didn't love me. I understand it better now. The manipulation was because it was a survival tactic for him."

Lisa Marie said she was in England when she heard the news and John Travolta was one of the first to break it to her.

When Oprah asked what she felt, she replied, "Real honest to goodness shock, not even tears. I was floored, honestly floored."

On Jackson's drug problem, she claims she didn't notice until the very end of their marriage. "I didn't really suspect and catch on until just before I filed for divorce. There was just an occasion, an incident where he had collapsed and he was in the hospital," she described of the scene in 1995 when Jackson collapsed while rehearsing for an HBO concert and doctors blamed it on a viral infection.

"It was very confusing what was wrong. Every day there was a different report. And I couldn't tell what was happening," she added. "I couldn't really get a straight answer about what was happening with him and I think we were all a little bit in the dark. At that point, I think I got from various indications that that was going on then."

"There were times that I would pick him up from certain doctors' offices and he would not be coherent," Presley remembered.

Something she wanted to make clear, their romance was for real. "I honestly can tell you, it was every sense a normal marriage."

"One of the very highest points of my life was when things were going really well and he and I were united together and he and I had an understanding about some of the people and things that could go on around him and he was with me on those things and we were a unit and I could take care of him," she told Oprah.

"For some reason, I don't know what happens when someone passes away and this is what's come of it. But I've come to have all this love again and understanding for him. I don't know why it had to take all that to have this happen. That upsets me a bit," Presley opined.

"Were you angry with him before?" Oprah questioned.

"I was very angry. I was so angry. I felt that we were so united and then at some point he pushed me out."

"There was a very profound point in the marriage when he had to make a decision -- was it the drugs and the sort of vampires or me? And he pushed me away."

She compared Jackson to her father, Elvis Presley. "The one thing that correlates with Michael and my father on this subject, they had the luxury of creating whatever reality around them they wanted to create."

Winfrey brought up the similar way in which both her father and her ex-husband lived and died.

"It really blows me away, to be honest with you. I still try to figure out why? What is it that I had to go through this twice?" she recalled. "I went through it once, that was painful and I went through it again."

She reveals that she wished she had reached out to Jackson before his death. "I know it's naive to think that I could have (saved him) but I wanted to. Had I made a call, had I stopped being so shut off from him, had I just said 'How are you?' I really regret that I didn't."

Tags: lisa marie presley, michael jackson

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Thursday 21 October

By JulP

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It is said the eyes are the windows to the soul. Lisa's eyes look vacant and "?". I think someone should reach out to her before history repeats itself.

By Boetica

What in the heck was she talking about? Her brain must be fried too. She makes no sense at all.

By ALaura

She's had some bad eyelid surgery. Either that or shes an alien offspring scientologist

By Tammy

I just never got that marriage with Lisa Marie and Micheal. It was so weird, like he was trying to prove to the world he was not gay or a child molester.

By mike

She looks creepy.

By harrybugs

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Poor Thing, Her old man still must be doing tail spins!

By Confused

She said she wanted to open up about personal stuff to get it out of the way before another album so it woulnd't interfere.

There really wasn't anything she said that was really coherent, or new, the same thing I've read many times and as evasive as always.

"It was a real marriage" "I was confused". If it was a real marriage why would she be confused about why her husband was in the hospital.,spaced out after DR visits. Didn't they ever talk?

"He was with me on things and people and we were united".

Every time I have heard or read anything she had to say about their marriage....it has been like hearing bits and pieces over a fence....your never really quite sure what she is saying or the point she is trying to make.

On one thing I am sure she truly doesn't understand what their marriage was. It seems she was only partly there herself.

Don't get me wrong I like the girl she has guts but this was just more something about nothing.

By Joan

"I can tell you, in every sense, it was a normal marriage"????? Are you kidding? This marriage was the biggest sham marriage in the history of sham marriages. I remember when this union was announced, I thought that MJ was covering his #ss by marrying the daughter of an icon. I still do.

By Dawn

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This is a suggestion really; you may want to consider having someone at least a bit more proficient handling the written overviews that you post.

By dpbeach03

I'm not really replying to anyone, I just have a problem that when I vote on a reply "+" I see that I voted a reply down. Is this a biased program? I can't mis-type that many times. I've been keeping count and at least 25% are not the vote I made, especially if they are not favorable.

By GW

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She was a coalburner. Who cares what she has to say about anything? Elvis should be rolling in his grave that his daughter married a black pedophile.

By dlang

Well one things for sure. Lisa Marie is not doing drugs, that is unless she's found a drug that makes you fat. She's not missing any meals either. And whats with the outfit, my granny dresses better.

By dan

It has been M Jackson was a addict for years and used to shoot drugs on his penis so no one would see the needle marks. Very crazy and I feel sorry for him if true

By Kat

For those of you who think that Lisa was stoned during the interview I don't think she was. That's just the way her eyes look. I have a similar problem and people have accused me of being high even through I don't even do drugs! And just in case anyone finds this amusing it's not because I've actually been in trouble with the law because they thought I was high on drugs.

By Jim

Talk about not aging well

By vivi

She's 42 she looks great. She's beautiful!!

Good lord people are so VICIOUS and so MEAN. We don't REALLY know the truth about anything at all regarding this topic. I will say this - the anger and hate which these interviews fuel - obviously vomit all over these posts. Shame on the lot of you who are ignorant, racist, sexist, sizist, etc.

I am sure you feel better about yourselves now.

Rampant idiots.

By Chief

I think she knows more than she is saying.

Tuesday 26 October

By Cheryl Lee

I truly believe that myself. When she said when she last spoke to MJ he mentioned names. And at his casket she admitted to saying how sorry she was,and wondered if she should have called someone.She also stated to Oprah that this was not closure for her. She stated that very intensily,like she knew a lot
more. I totally agree with you!!!

By jeftex

Looney, Looney, Looney! Stupid idiot. Talk about dumb white chick.

By Trinity

Elvis was handsome and Priscilla was beautiful so how did they get this hot mess as a daughter?

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