Bedroom Talk

Jackson two years after he was diagnosed with vitiligo pictured

Summary: Jackson two years after he was diagnosed with vitiligo pictured in the early stages of the disease In 1986 the tabloid press ran a story claiming that Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to slow the aging process he was pictured lying down in a glass box Although the claim was untrue Jackson disseminated the fabricated story himself The singer was promoting his upcoming movie Captain EO and wanted to promote a sci fi image of himself Jackson had a fourth rhinoplasty and wanting masculine features had a cleft put in his chin Then he starred in the Francis Ford Coppola directed 3 D film Captain EO It was the most expensive film produced on a per minute basis at the time and was later hosted in Disney theme parks Disneyland featured the film in its Tomorrowland area for nearly 11 years while Walt Disney World screened the film in its Epcot theme park from 1986 to 1994 Jackson bought and befriended a pet chimpanzee called Bubbles an act which extended his eccentric persona In 2003 the singer claimed that Bubbles shared his toilet and cleaned his bedroom Later it was reported that Jackson bought the bones of The Elephant Man Although untrue it was a story that Jackson again disseminated to the tabloid press These stories inspired the pejorative nickname Wacko Jacko which Jackson acquired the following year He would eventually come to despise the nickname Realizing his mistake he stopped leaking untruths to the press However due to the profit being made the media began making up their own stories

Image Dimensions: 200 x 227