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Lionel Richie is calling out Michael Jackson’s bad hygiene, saying he was “smelly” and claims wouldn’t change or wash his clothes for days.
“Michael was very close with his siblings and his mom, but once he went solo, making these monster albums, movies and videos, he was in charge of his own ship,” the “Endless Love” singer wrote in his newly released memoir, “Truly.”
“His day-to-day life was what you could call eccentric. Like an absent-minded professor but still a kid,” Richie, 76, added.
The “American Idol” judge said he and late music producer Quincy Jones would make fun of their pal Jackson, whom they nicknamed “Smelly.”
“Michael would laugh, too, realizing that he was oblivious to the fact that he hadn’t changed or washed his clothes for a couple of days or so,” Richie wrote. “We all have our quirks.”
The “All Night Long” crooner said the “Thriller” musician would perform on tour in “elaborate costumes made for him by his stylists” and would wear pajamas, slippers or going out attire to the studio.
“Whenever Michael came to visit me, he was wearing whatever — jeans and a T-shirt,” Richie penned, adding that Jackson would never put on deodorant around him. “And the jeans were either falling off him or too short to even be jeans and, well, smelly.”
When the former Commodores frontman inquired about Jackson’s pants, the “King of Pop” replied, “‘Lionel, I walked by a store in the Valley. The owner came out and gave me a free pair.'”
“Everybody kept something for a souvenir,” Richie wrote. “He just got into the habit of wearing the same pants until they were unwearable.”
Richie recalled a time when he gifted Jackson a pair of jeans and clean underwear and encouraged him to shower when the Jackson 5 frontman allegedly had a foul odor.
“I drove him home, on his back streets, and he was sweet and thankful,” Richie claimed in his memoir.
“As soon as I walked back into my house, I passed by the living room and noticed that there on the carpet was the pair of Michael Jackson’s underwear and his old ratty jeans. Just lying there like roadkill,” he added.
“What do I do but laugh? MJ was here.”
26 comments:
Lawd hammercy. 😂
This fool waits until people are dead to drag them in his book. Dayam.
Did Lionel write about the plastic surgery he got? Didn’t think so.
No wonder Diana Ross won’t sing with him. I wouldn’t either.
did he write about the time Brenda Richie beat his arse after catching him at Sofia Richie's mother's house?
This is soooo tired to even bring MJ up, this is his book , the focus should be on him , and not trying to drag the deceased to sell his book. As what brought out, talk about all the horrible fillers and surgery he's had.
We did not need to know this.
I rebuke you Lionel, this ain't cool ain't cool.
^ What all y'all above said.
Right. They say Brenda beat his azz like that YT girl beat Tiger Woods.
He should tell us how he got his crater face repaired with all those pot holes. Tell us how he feels when the Yt judges ignore him on American Idol and he stays for a check. LOLO
Beat his azz my azz, sis pulled a 🔫
I just don't believe this at all. He's desperate to sell books and it's sad that he had to stoop this low to that.
Now I see why his wife - Mike Tysoned his behind
On a serious note - this is confirmation of child abuse, of particular nature. (%exual abuse. ) Not wanting to wash, or remove clothing, because its triggering, because those actions precluded or were included in the abuse.
I'm sure Mr Richie was told this, yet he decided to drudge this up in a pure heartless disrespectul manner.
He will be fired, sued, AND Dragged untill you see RWS posting his PUBLIC aplology right here.
Then under that APOLOGY POST he will be DRAGGED AGAIN!
Lionel, stop being messy. Tell how your wife beat you up for cheating all night long.
He was young. Who cares. Janet said he would wear the same shoes til they were falling apart. I do that too.
This big nose horse better keep the King's name out of his funky mouf! Up in here lookin' like his breath reeks of sewage and disaster!
Keep in mind Mike was a prankster like that… he was being a azz to Lionel just for the heck of it. BUT Some things are best not to be made public… that’s personal and completely something Michael would not want put in a book.
Lies! Mike was a Virgo! Lyingnel is trying to push units at all costs.
I don't believe Lying Lionel but what does being a Virgo have to do with anything? I have a friend who had terrible B.O. that she couldn't get under control for years until I offered her some natural African Black Soap, and she's a Virgo.
Damn. I forgot what Lionel's original face looked like.
All I want to know is. Why he ain’t say nothing to stanking a$$ Michael Jackson when he was alive and stanking.
Ask Eddie Murphy.
This is not what Quincy Jones said.
" Jones recalled meeting Jackson as a 12-year-old and then getting to know him on the 1978 movie The Wiz. Later, “I used to call Michael ‘Smelly,’ because he wouldn’t say ‘funky.’ He’d say ‘smelly jelly.’ They’d say, ‘Who’s in the studio?’ I said, ‘Smelly, Worms and Mouse.’ ”
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/quincy-jones-recalls-freaking-out-at-michael-jacksons-death-and-his-private-6531723/
Lionel is story telling
Q said DECADES ago MJJ would say ' smelling jelly' in place of the word sh*t because Mike didnt swear
2:41 PM
That's a medical problem. Not washing is a choice. Virgos are very clean and meticulous ppl. LOLO
Brenda Ritchie knows Kung Fu. *Boondocks Reference*
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