Lisa Marie Presley Tells Oprah She Didn’t Try Hard Enough to Save Michael Jackson

(HMG Celebrity News) In a recent interview, which was recorded at her home in England, with Oprah Winfrey, Lisa Marie Presley has opened up about her ex-husband Michael Jackson, after more than 15 months of his death. Before their divorce in 1996, Presley says, Jackson was pushing her away in favor of drugs. She wondered aloud to Oprah, whether she could have save Micheal’s life: “I know it’s naive to think that I could have, but I wanted to. Had I made a call, had I stopped being so shut off from him, had I Just said, ‘How are you?’ I really regret that I didn’t.”

Presley, who married the King of Pop in 1994 when she was 20-years-old, explained why she agreed to talk about Jackson now. “Every time I’ve ever had an interview in the past, I tend to get very defensive because I was usually promoting something and it would always cross into my personal life.”

“I wanted to sit and really have a conversation about things that are more on a personal level, before I do have an album coming out,” she said.

She went on to say that it took his death to make her realize Michael had loved her.

“I didn’t understand my relationship with him. It has taken until now to come to have all this love again and understanding for him. I don’t know why it had to take all that to have this happen. That upsets me a bit. I was very angry. I was so angry… I felt that we were so united, and then at some point he pushed me out.”

She realizes now why people though their relationship was a sham. “To some degree, he was a master at manipulating a little bit with the media. I understand that nobody really knew who I was. They just assumed I was going along with something he would be doing.”

“He was conditioned to get himself where he needed to go for his career and with his talent. He became very good at making and creating and puppeteering and manipulating to some degree,” Presley continued. “I always confused that manipulation thinking that that manipulation meant that he didn’t love me. I understand it better now. The manipulation was because it was a survival tactic for him.”

When asked about Jackson’s child molestation accusations, Presley said she never saw him act inappropriately around children. On Jackson’s drug problem, she claims she didn’t notice until the very end of their marriage. “I didn’t really suspect and catch on until just before I filed for divorce. “There were times that I would pick him up from certain doctors’ offices and he would not be coherent,” Presley admitted.

Asked about his death, Lisa stated that she was in England when she heard the news and John Travolta was one of the first to break it to her. “I think that was a train heading in a certain direction that no one could have stopped. I’ve had to really get my head around that in order to stop the pain.”

When Oprah asked what she felt, she replied, “Real honest to goodness shock, not even tears. I was floored, honestly floored.” Lisa attended Jackson’s private funeral. She is married now to her fourth husband and has four children.

Source: PopEater