The Inner Life of a Nose Cripple

Written by Sydney Smith
Published February 07, 2003

There were many telling moments in last night's Michael Jackson interview on 20/20, both explicit and implicit. But the most telling were these:

1) When his first son was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit soon after his birth, Michael's prayer wasn't, "Please don't let my child be sick," but "Please don't let me have a sick child."

2) The portrait hanging on the wall of his Neverland home that portrays Michael as Apollo, wrapped in loin cloth and surrounded by adoring and adorable cherubim.

Shudder.

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