As usual with a political or show biz figure who dies, more details are now coming out about the late Michael Jackson. And the details show a “paranoid, despondent” Michael Jackson before his death — brimming with self-doubts, and drunk in a dressing room. To be sure, all his final days weren’t like that but the details round out the picture given in the film that was released showing him full of energy and life rehearsing the concert that was not to be.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.