Comments on: Kathy Griffin was an extra on the Michael Jackson Pepsi video

By: tt

tt — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:10:05 +0000

i cant watch this video again, i almost cried, its gruesome. i kinda agree with pepsi about releasing this video….why? so people (the media)could watch it over and over again like some kind of sick joke? the only good thing about this is that now the world will realize just how serious his burns actually were and how much pain he was in…

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By: Aspen

Aspen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:57:20 +0000

When this happened, the media portrayed it as “no big thing.” They didn’t mention the burns that first day. They just said his hair caught on fire. They didn’t say he was hurt at all…much less that he was badly injured. I REMEMBER it.

Back then, Michael Jackson wore a LOT of product in his hair, and it was natural that the people…not knowing his injuries were serious…would joke about all the oil in his hair/the fire/ and the whole thing being a big drama to point and giggle at.

We saw the video of his hair being on fire over and over and over and over back then because they would play it on the news and say Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire from the special effects. At no time did they explain in that first couple of days that he was gravely injured. At no point in those first couple of days did they show the end of the tape where you see the extent of the damage done to MJ’s scalp.

A few days later, when they FINALLY began talking about whether or not MJ would SURVIVE…people stopped joking about it for the most part until a few years later when he was well, performing again, and everyone assumed he was fully recovered.

No one EVER came out honestly and let the public know how madly MJ was hurt, and we didn’t know he’d been injured at all until two days later. The way the press played it was very wrong. The consequence is that everyone…up to seeing this footage…thought the Pepsi fire was no big deal. No one knew he was scarred. No one knew he was in pain. Back when it happened, the media allowed it to be a joke instead of telling the truth.

I was a kid…I was 10 years old to be precise…but I still remember watching. I was interested in what happened to him, and the news seemed to say he was fine and it was all no big deal…funny, funny.

I’m GLAD this horrible tape is out now. It shows what really happened and explains things in a different light. I’m sorry so many are offended by it…but it is the truth. That really happened to him. I was paying attention back when it happened, and I had NO IDEA it was that bad until I saw the video here early in the week.

So. That’s why people want to see something so awful.

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By: Trillion

Trillion — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:51:19 +0000

Pardon me for explaining the obvious, but this event didn’t carry nearly the significance 5 years ago. Kathy’s comedy is almost exclusively based on celebrity encounters, that’s what she does.

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