March 27 2005 Jackson declares innocence, says he's victim of conspiracy
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, declaring he is "completely innocent," said Sunday his trial on child molestation charges has brought him to the lowest emotional point of his life, and he asked his fans around the world to pray for him.
During an interview with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the entertainer also said he believes he is the victim of a conspiracy, although he declined to elaborate, citing the court-imposed gag order that prevents him from discussing his trial in detail. Jackson added, however, that he believes he is the latest of several "black luminaries" to be unjustly accused, citing former South African President Nelson Mandela and former heavyweight boxing champions Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson as others.
"I just want to say to fans in every corner of the Earth, every nationality, every race, every language, I love you from the bottom of my heart," Jackson said toward the end of the hourlong interview broadcast live over the Internet. "I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak."
Jackson also said at one point that he remains in "intense pain" after falling in the shower earlier this month, although he said at another point that his health was perfect. The entertainer arrived late to court on March 10, wearing pajama bottoms, a T-shirt and walking stiffly. His representatives said at the time he had been treated at a hospital for a serious back injury.
"I was coming out of the shower and I fell and all my body weight - I'm pretty fragile - all my body weight fell against my rib cage," Jackson said. "And I bruised my lung very badly."
He said the injury has caused him to cough up blood and was so painful that it brought him to tears in court one day when he was seen wiping his eyes with a tissue. He added that he remains under a doctor's care.
Earlier in the interview, when the reverend noted how thin he is, Jackson replied that he has never been a big eater, something he said has always concerned his mother and others, including actress Elizabeth Taylor, a friend.
"Elizabeth Taylor used to feed me, to hand-feed me, at times," he said.
"Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not." he quickly added. "My health is perfect, actually."
The entertainer also denied recent rumors that he is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
"That's not true at all. It's just one of their many schemes to embarrass me. It's to drag me through the mud," he said.
He did indicate there is some sort of battle under way over the music catalog he owns that contains the rights to songs by the Beatles, Little Richard and others, but he declined to elaborate.
"There's a big fight going on, right now as we speak, about that," he said. "I can't comment on it, but there's a lot of conspiracy out there."
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