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DAVID NORDAHL and MICHAEL JACKSON. Friendship & Paintbrush. By Deborah L. Kunesh. A THREAD.
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“All of the time I knew Michael, almost 20 years, I never ever heard him raise his voice at anybody.He was such a good person.” #MJFam

“I’ve never met anybody who was more well-adjusted or more normal. He was just such a normal guy. So intellectual and so bright and so normal. He was just so genuine and so warm and so caring...

He was a fabulous father. I've never met a parent as good or better than Michael. Those kids were an absolute delight! I've never met kids in my life that were like them. I spent a lot of extended time around them. I never heard them cry or beg for anything.

Michael would get between 50 and 60 extortion attempts per year. Most of them were paternity. All of those things got thrown out of court because once they got to court, they couldn't back it up.

Michael spent a third of a billion dollars on helping children, paying for surgeries, building hospital wings, orphanages, a burn center and on and on and on. The good things he did he would never talk about them.

I asked him, 'Michael, how can you do that? How can you spend the time with these children who are dying and then go from that, on stage and give that kind of performance?' He said, 'How could I not? If these children want to see me...

I know I'm not important, but Michael Jackson the superstar is, and if I can make a child live an extra minute or an hour or a day or a month, then wouldn't that be worth it?'
Michael was always that way.

If he would get a call from somebody and a child was dying, he would get on a plane and go and he would tell them, 'I'm going to be back in 2 weeks to see you,' and a lot of times he extended little kids' lives that way.

Michael told me, 'we're all put on earth to do something' He said 'I was put here to help children.' Which he did from the time I met him, he was 29 when I met him, that was what his life was all about. It was that way all the way up to the time he died.

Michael had incredible empathy, especially for children that were injuried or sick or neglected. To be accused of something so horrific, it just stopped him in his tracks and then when it happened again 10 years later, the man was absolutely devastated.

Talking to Michael I would look into his eyes and I could see for 1,000 miles. He had these most incredible eyes. They come off good on film, but nothing like in person. Those eyes were unbelievable.

He was so much fun to be around. We'd laugh so much. He had a great sense of humor, loved practical jokes....We'd be walking along and he'd break out into song. But not like Michael Jackson. He would sing like it was a man in the shower, just singing

I hated to see that joy go out of his life because he was a very joyful person. He was a happy person and just great fun to be around.

He lived so simply. Michael never wore any jewelry, no rings, no belts, no watches, nothing, ever. The only time he wore those things were onstage. I was just so impressed with how simply he lived.

"Michael would say, 'I'm so fortunate that God chose me to have this talent and I have to use it in the right way.' He always said, 'I could be working at a gas station.'

He always was (in awe he was given that) and always grateful and felt priveledged that he was given this talent and so wanting to use the gift that he gave the right way, which he did and he did it his whole life.

The children that came to the ranch...all the rides and everything there was wheelchair accessible. Everything was modified. He had extra cages built so arms couldn't flop out or hair couldn't flop out and get caught in something.

In the theatre, there were 2 rooms and there were glass walls that had hospital beds set up so that critically ill children could sit in the hospital bed and watch the movie. He thought of everything.

I noticed the vitiligo. The press got on him about trying to be white. Which is the farthest thing from the truth. Michael never wanted to be white. He was proud of who he was and where he came from, but he had no choice.

I never, ever heard Michael complain about himself, about his health or anything else. Any concerns he had were always about his kids. Even when he was facing prison in the last trial, he was so concerned, 'what's going to happen to my kids’?

They treated him without any respect for the fact that he's a human being and his whole life has been based on doing good deeds. Like, how can you do that to this poor man?".
David Nordahl.
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