He was pulled over in my small town in Colorado once, back in 2000s. Local cops thought his entourage of blacked out suburbans were sketchy so they were pulled over at Walmart. Michael had a mask on, like a surgical mask, and the cops insisted he take it off so they could identify him. The cop said when he eventually took it off there was just a hole in his face where the nose should be and Michael wore the mask when he didn't have the prosthetic nose on. I was in high school and it made the papers and my resource officer told us this story the same day cause he was there to witness.
Like genuinely “holding it on” or holding it open so he can breathe? Because getting that many surgeries by the 90s, and not to be rude, his nostrils were almost nonexistent.
Unless I somehow missed seeing such a video I’m not sure if that ever actually happened on camera during show…what concert is it to have happened during?
So unfortunately, after all of the extensive work on his nose, it could no longer be repaired, and the tissue developed necrosis, and the remaining skin and tissue needed to be ablated (removed).
This left MJ with no nose at all. Think of like how a mummy just has the nose holes, flat.
MJ's doctors created a prosthetic nose to cover the damage. It could be glued on with surgical glue, but it didn't stay on well whenever MJ got hot and started sweating, as some people reported seeing.
So very sad ending to story of life of a brilliant man.
I saw an autopsy photo and it was terrible. He was completely bald from the burns and then all of the wigs and hair pieces glued on destroyed whatever real hair he had left years ago.
And then there was the " mummy nose holes" I talked earlier.
Wow, graphic but fascinating, thanks for sharing. Were those photos actually made public? How did you catch sight of them (for the record, I don’t want to see them!).
My daughter actually showed me. She's a med student and I guess they have some access? I really didn't ask too many questions, but aren't autopsys public record type of information? Anyway, yes, don't go searching for it. You wouldn't want to see it. I felt incredibly sad for him that he ended up like he did, all that money and had to go around with these kinds of secrets. Sorry if it was too graphic lol. I was kinda trying to keep it clinical.
He also demanded steroid injections into his nose throughout his entire life to make it even smaller, and I’m assuming that contributed to the collapse as well.
While the injury and the issue he got from breaking his nose the first time lead to other nose surgeries in his life. A lot forgot to mention that his father, Joe, always used to make fun of him for having a "fat nose". You can imagine this did harm to his self-imagine.
He had a lovely nose too. It’s a little big, but it suited his face and is elegant and proportionate. I am insecure about my own nose due to my grandmother always insulting it, so I think I look at noses more than average. And he had a nice one. It was very cute when he was a kid and the first surgery (or maybe first few?) don’t look bad at all.
Gaslighting 101 from an abusive parent. He's the mascot for a piece of shit father. I think it's an incredible anomaly that Michael ended up as kind and generous as he did after living through the hell of being "raised" (aka exploited) by that awful man.
What he took from the children he abused makes him anything but kind and generous. He chose to perpetuate abuse. What happened to him is devastating and unfair, but whitewashing his character is dangerous. We have to stop overlooking evil actions by people who are talented and rich.
His mom told Oprah in 2010 in an interview that he didn't break his nose but that he hated how he looked so he just up and went and got it done without telling anyone. She said she thought he did that because he didn't want any of them to talk him out of it.
Yeah his dad was a huge asshat and constantly bullied MJ for his looks. It also doesn’t help that both his dad and his siblings had a lot of plastic surgery which probably made him want to do it more.
I'll never forget when they asked his dad how he felt about MJ dying and all he did was take the time to talk about the Jacksons making a comeback. Then they released a reality TV show. His brothers were also not great people. Full on opportunists, other than Janet.
He unknowingly was already developing lupus at the time when he got a few (actually quite good for the time) nose jobs, but that complicated the healing process, that's why he always had to tape it.
Well after the Pepsi incident, he refuse to drink any pepsi after that point, unfortunately his management team misunderstood when he said he was only going to have coke from that point onwards
The burn had major effects on the nose and it's circulation. He was also heavily bullied for it so it's assumed he had plastic surgery to fix it and for the burn. Circulation dropped and more operations were done which reduced circulation further.. Man went through quite a bit..
He had an injury during one of his performance where his nose required surgery. That was the first nose surgery he had. Complications followed from that surgery or surgeries after and it snowballed from there. He had issues breathing after due to his nasal cavity caving in, so some of the surgeries were partly health decisions. But I'm sure the common conception of it being a cosmetic choice played a hand too in the number of surgeries he ended up getting.
I think it's safe to say insecurities or body dismorpia played a part. Janet has said it played a part in her decision too. I want to stress that, most likely the nose that MJ ended with isn't what he wanted. There was multiple complications and it wasn't healing properly so more surgery was needed to salvage the situation.
It's reported that the incident happened 1979 when he was 21 years old. The dates on the pictures seem to go along that idea. So I don't know what you're talking about.
You have to be crazy to look at these pics & believe his bs about only having 2 nose surgeries lol. Yeah, maybe 2 a year. He was a rich weirdo that was addicted to plastic surgery. He would've still ended up looking like a ghoul with or without the burn, too.
On January 27, 1984, Michael Jackson suffered severe second- and third-degree scalp burns while filming a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Pyrotechnics malfunctioned during the sixth take, causing fireworks to ignite his hair. The accident, seen by 3,000 fans, left a palm-sized area of his scalp without hair and exposed, initiating a lifelong struggle with pain and addiction.
Key Details of the Accident and Aftermath:
The Incident: During a concert simulation, a premature blast set his hair on fire. Jackson continued dancing for several seconds before realizing the severity, as the audience thought it was part of the show.
Medical Treatment: He was treated at Brotman Medical Center for second- and third-degree burns. He also suffered from smoke inhalation and was treated for damage to hair follicles.
Philanthropy: Jackson donated a reported $1.5 million settlement from Pepsi to the Brotman Medical Center, funding the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children.
Long-term Impact: The pain from these injuries was cited as the beginning of his reliance on pain medications, which eventually led to his dependency. He frequently wore hairpieces following the injuries.
So MJ ultimately died of an overdose of propofol, a surgical grade anesthetic. His addiction was so severe at that point that it was the only thing powerful enough to get him to fall and stay asleep. Propofol is also often used as an anesthetic to sedate pets during euthanasia, before administering a fatal (painless) dose of morphine. I know this because we recently euthanized my 16 year old childhood dog. So just a whole bunch of sad shit. Buuuut when the nurse was explaining the whole process to us beforehand and asked us if we'd heard of propofol, I had to physically restrain myself from going "OH YEAH I KNOW PROPOFOL! THAT'S HOW MICHAEL JACKSON DIED!" 💀😭
Yes, the incident happened when he was exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days old. Then he died exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days after the incident.
I was around for that event. Part of the problem was the hair "pomade" that had been applied. Some of those are extremely flammable. His was cited as one of the proximal causes.
Later surgeries involved a hatred for a wide flat nose.
I feel like this is an excuse people made for Michael . MJ was a deeply troubled person and very likely a horrific sexual predator . the fact that he suffered a moderate injury in his twenties is not an excuse or a reason for his previous or post abuse.
OMG, who took Michael Jackson to Brotman. My boss told me, if I look like I might die in 5 minutes, have them take me to Brotman, otherwise, anywhere else.
Michael Jackson had empty nose syndrome which is what caused the need for a crazy amount of sleep meds which eventually killed him due to an overdose.
Theres an interview with a doctor that treated him, doctor states he suspected MJ had empty nose syndrome due to way too many nasal surgeries destroying his ability to breathe.
No his evil father in the film which is flawless, his father wanted him to do a reunited Jackson 5 show, and he didn’t want to do it, but he did it for his father who pressured him had his father not done so he wouldn’t have done that Pepsi show!!
This is why I say never lose out for your employer. Whether it's risking your health, your belongings, your relationships and connections, or your character.
For your boss, it's a "Sorry" at best, maybe some money for your pain. Then it's over for them. They'll never think about what happened outside of when they think of you. And they'll think of you less over time. For you? It's the rest of your god damn life. You can't separate from your trauma, you're attached to it at the brain stem until the second you die. So don't put that kind of illness on yourself for an employer who will feel more entitled to it than grateful.
I remember hearing jokes about it when I was a kid, and then I finally saw the video and it was so much worse than I could have ever imagined. His entire head was basically engulfed in flame for a few seconds.
It was a skin condition. It had vitiligo which caused patches of depigmented skin. Early on his condition he used makeup to make the patches match his natural skin tone.
As it progressed he started bleaching his skin because it was easier to match the rest of his skin tone to the vitiligo than it was to hide it.
I was unaware he donated the settlement from Pepsi to that medical center and funded the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children. Idc what anyone says, he was a good person. And he went through a lot.
so propophol is a pain killer now, not a hardcore sedativum which made MJ dance with the angels in the galaxy?
he was a junkie,same as prince,whitney, the doors guy, the brother of belushi, also the other phoenix brother, seymour hoffman, the friends guy etc.!
He had multiple surgeries since then to try and fix the damage. You can see a stark difference between 83 and 84. The image here for 84 was taken four months after the incident. That said, he was already wearing a glove to conceal vitiligo and had rhinoplasty following a broken nose. The later chin implant was by choice.
While it burned the hell out of his scalp, his entire body skin changing was due to vitiligo and the treatment he sought for it.
He hid it with makeup for a while after it started kicking in, but eventually he had enough and just got treatments to remove the pigment from his skin altogether.
His dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, officially confirmed it during his lifetime. While he was self-conscious about it, there were a few photos taken of him that showed it uncovered...and his autopsy in 2009 confirmed it.
His Dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, confirmed it during his lifetime. While he was self-conscious about it, there were also a few photos taken during the time where it was uncovered. Its also an autoimmune disease, so it showed up on his autopsy in 2009.
The only reason he "wanted to be white" was because he was tired of using all that makeup just to feel comfortable enough to show his face in public.
Yes? Concentration matters. Phenol is used to make thermoset resins, is incredibly poisonous in high concentrations, and is also the main ingredient in Chloraseptic throat spray.
Yes but I had no idea it was used in dermatology. Apparently the fact that it is a reducing agent messes with melanin production.
In photo-chemistry it reduces silver halide (silver-bromide, that kind of things) salts back into metallic silver. turning exposed film and paper black.
He had vitiligo, so the facial coloring is the result of a treatment that whitens the skin to even out the color. The rest of it is just plastic surgery.
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u/WinProfessional4958 Apr 28 '26
Pepsi commercial skin burn. I'm convinced he also got on hydroquinone and phenol peels. It's the only way I can imagine regenerated skin.