Kudos to Mrs. Jackson for covering all the salient points of what you need to know about vitiligo in under a minute.
She uses the term ‘bleached up’, which is only half correct. We cover why in our Fact Check Hub. Explore more on our vitiligo page. Learn about others with the condition here.
Vitiligo – Katherine Jackson Interview (unknown date)
Source: Celebrity Classified – The Unfiltered Truth
with Katherine Jackson – Uncensored & Uncut
Transcript
Q: How did you feel watching Michael struggle with vitiligo?
KJ: I uh I didn’t exactly understand the disease. I had seen many people with it. And um… there was a aunt in uh on his father’s side in the family that had it also. But um… he found something to do with just to, he didn’t want to be, he always said ‘I don’t want to be spotted like a cow’. You know in his face and also… he found a way to um just take the brown spots out.
I don’t know how they did that and, but it made him… I won’t say how I felt about how it made him, but that to him that was better than just be spotted all over. But under his, his legs and all was still spotted up underside,1The decedent’s overall skin has patches of light and dark pigmented areas. Source: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/251735/autopsy-0001-optimized.pdf but he got his chest and his hands and arms and things bleached up.
Transcript & Emphasis: JS
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