Michael Jackson’s minders reveal star’s secret life

[HMG] – In the first interview since their boss, Michael Jackson was found dead on June 25, his three bodyguards have recalled some truly sad times in the superstar’s life;

Prior to his untimely loss, the 50-year old Jackson was preparing a comeback in London. But before that he called a rented Las Vegas mansion his home, and the guards – Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon “BJ” Beard – told ABC‘s  ‘Good Morning America’ MJ’s favorite things were being with his children, cruising the strip and ordering fast food from a drive-thru.

But Jackson’s home life, they said, was ‘isolated and lonely.’ One example was a birthday party for one of the children. Only their teacher, their nanny and the three guards could attend — No other child was allowed.

The three were hired by Michael in 2007,  and the connection soon became close; “We were with Michael Jackson the person, not the entertainer,” said Garcia.

They also explained the surgical mask Michael so often wore was not to hide new surgery, it was just a disguise. But they never asked about it too much;

“He’s coming down with the kids and we can’t say, ‘What the hell you got on, sir?’” said Beard. “How could you ask him that?”

As for the children, the men described them as ‘polite and well-mannered,’ and the link between them and their dad as being very close;

“The kids were constantly saying, ‘I love you, Daddy’…They were like four buddies,” Garcia told the host.

But there were also moments of fun — Like when the three tried to trick their minders into getting them illicit Oreos.

“Sometimes they’d say things like, ‘Bill, Daddy wants you to go get some cookies for us,’” Whitfield recalled, grinning.

On more serious topics the men were asked if their boss ever behaved in a way that suggested the 2005 charges of child molestation against him were actually true. The reply was brief and emphatic — In unison, all three said “No.”

“Being a man…Men know men…And we were around him long enough to know – he was a man,” explained Whitfield.

The three said their boss had at least two girlfriends they knew of, and that they sometimes like chaperones for two teenagers on a first date.

“In the cars we had a curtain that covered the back seat…You couldn’t see in,” Whitfield said. “They talked back there…they didn’t do nothing out of bounds. You can hear all the kissing.”

Michael died on June 25 from a lethal, but apparently accidental mixture of prescription medications, plus the powerful anesthetic, Propofol. He was laid to rest on September 3rd at the Forest Lawn cemetery on Glendale, California.

His beloved children, meanwhile, now share a home with their grandma…