Michael Jackson’s last rehearsal video & words from big bro Jermaine
Jermaine Jackson was very involved in helping his brother create the This Is It tour. Jermaine tells CNN he wishes he could say he and Michael spoke everyday and that his little brother came to him for advice – however, sadly, that was not the case.
Jermaine did say he has been intimately involved in all Michael’s solo performances. This concert was the first time Jermaine served as the vocal director.
He says Michael was in a very “up mood” during rehearsals, actually more goofy then he’d seen Michael in years. He said the dancers on stage rehearsing with MJ were in their 20s but the only person you could see was Michael – he was so alive and shining.
Just hours after he last spoke with Michael Jermaine heard his mom crying on the phone saying Michael was dead, Jermaine says it took a few days to actually feel & believe his brother died.
Like a true, loyal older brother Jermaine says he wishes it were him, instead of Michael, that died. Jermaine says Michael was a gift from God and it seems his little brother was taken way too soon.
Asked about seeing Michael after he died Jermaine says:
“I wanted to see Michael, and I wanted to see my brother, and seeing him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me, but I held myself together because I know he’s very much alive.”
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“His spirit is [alive], and that [his body] was just a shell, but I kissed him on his forehead and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, `Michael, I’ll never leave you. You’ll never leave me.’”
Jermaine tells CNN he wants people to know that Michael was so very happy the night before he died, he was like a kid in a candy store seeing the show come together. Jermaine says that’s how he chooses to remember the events around his brother’s death.
Jermaine will be with Larry King live tonight on CNN at Neverland Ranch.
