Sheryl Crow was left stunned by the way Michael Jackson treated his pet chimpanzee Bubbles when she toured with him in the late 1980s.
Crow, who was a backing singer for Jackson on his blockbuster Bad tour, insists the superstar wasn't as "weird" as he seems today, but he still had eccentricities.
She reveals, "Bubbles was on tour, which was a little bit strange, and by that time he was very strong and probably should have been in some kind of wildlife [reserve].
"Mike used to bring him round and he'd get kind of violent and he would take a ballpoint pen and stab it into his chest and he said, 'You have to do that to get his attention -- to make him stop what he's doing.'
"It wasn't long before the monkey had to go home."
I had to read that a couple of ways......a couple of times.....and then gave up. LOL
Perhaps, only the hairdressor knows for sure. LOL
If we have the rest of the story to read..... we could blame it on the poor story author. Perhaps, it's one of those foreign tabloids that doesn't have two verified sources.
Michael Jackson used his pet chimpanzees to clean Neverland ranch, his trial heard yesterday. The creatures would help the star by dusting, cleaning windows and brushing the toilets, the jury heard.
In a clip of outtakes from Martin Bashir's ITV1 documentary Living With Michael Jackson, the singer described how he got his animals to help with household chores.
'They are very smart. Their DNA is identical to humans when you look under a microscope,' he said.
He also revealed his beloved pet chimp Bubbles was moved to a monkey sanctuary after he became too strong and started to rebel against him - like a teenage child. He said: 'They are very, very strong. They are very powerful.'
In the video, which showed a relaxed looking Jackson sitting on a floor cushion in an emerald green silk shirt, he laughed and joked with British journalist Bashir.
He said that although the upkeep of Neverland cost him 'millions' each year, it was worth it for the happiness it brought visiting children. He said he employed between 150 and 200 people to run the ranch.
'That costs a lot of money,' he added. 'I get it all back if I see them [children] smile. That's all worth it.'
Asked why he wanted to make children happy he told Bashir: 'I've always just felt that they are very special to me. I see God through them. Everything I do is inspired by the children. I'm a nut for innocence. I love innocence. If it wasn't for the children. I would throw in the towel.'
And he invoked the memory of Princess Diana to explain why he felt he had to provide fun for youngsters.
He added: 'Especially now that Mother Teresa is not here, Princess Diana is not here, there's no voice for the kids.'
Jackson also joked about the Pope - saying he had trouble telling the difference between the various Catholic leaders. 'Why do they all look alike? That confuses me.'
Is that allowed? Don't you have to have a disability or something if you want a helper-monkey and don't they have to be trained properly by the monkey equivalent of the guide-dog association? I didn't think you could have monkeys in the hosue doing work without some kind of permit?
The Pope's confuse him? I am pretty sure he confuses the Pope as well.
hehehe hope the jury aren't of a mind that MJ's a bad person because the pope just died, and they see him making a joke about the pope... the fact that he made the joke before the pope died would be irrelevant to them, no doubt
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
11-21-2003 01:33 AM
I am pretty sure he confuses the Pope as well. 
