Michael Jackson – Bodyguards Speak About His Secret Life

[Announcer]
The three bodyguards he trusted with his life, speaking out for the first time, Ashley Banfield spent 3 days with the men who put their lives on the line for the King of Pop. Now no matter what you think about Jackson, what you hear from these men may change how you feel and Ashley again you spent quite a bit of time with these gentleman.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
I did and I gotta be honest I really expected that they were really going to trash him because so many people have.

[Announcer]
Sure.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
It was the opposite, gotta be honest. Um, they do wanna write a book about it, because they say that someone has to defend this guy, they wanna call the book “In Defense Of The King”. Really theirs is a story about a man who is sad and lonely, but mostly an amazing father.

[Background Commentator]
He was the biggest pop star in the world, and at any frenzied moment just beyond the camera’s range were three very big bodyguards, Mike Garcia, Bill Witfeild and Javon B. Now in this exclusive interview they are revealing new details, intimate and personal about Michael Jackson the father, the brother, the prisoner of his fame.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
There were times where he vented, and he vented. Loudly, why don’t people just leave me alone.

[Background Commentator]
But Michael trusted them with his life, his kids, and with his secrets.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
We became more than just security. With personal assistance.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
I’ll say in the beginning it was like, this is not our job but then, after a while, once we got to see what the situation and everything was and how there is nobody around, there was no entourage, it was just us.

[Background Commentator]
They were on guard twenty four seven. Traveling with Jackson and his kids, across the country. When they weren’t on the road the family called this rented Las Vegas mansion home.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
The walls stretch right around this compound and its a veritable fortress, and although you and I might look at this as a a beautiful Las Vegas oasis – the bodyguards said that Michael hated being here.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
For you and I, its a great house.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Right

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
For security for Michael Jackson’s kids, horrible house.

[Background Commentator]
They say that Jackson felt exposed here, too many neighbors, paparazzi’s swarming at the gate, even hiding in the trees, but it was in this house that these men learned more about Michael Jackson than almost anyone else.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Was he a good dad?

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Awesome!

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Yes!

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Awesome, the kids would constantly tell him, I love you daddy, things like that. It was like the four buddies. You know. That was there world.

[Background Commentator]
And they say, he did all he could to shield Prince, Paris and Blanket from the media frenzy.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Did he know the headlines that said Wacko Jacko.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Sometimes he’ve seen em, and he’d actually take it and turn it around so the kids didn’t see it.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
He was successful, in shielding those kids, from these headlines.

[Bodyguards]
Absolutely. Sure, Yes, Absolutely.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Did he know that the reasons so many people thought he was so bizarre, was because of some of his behavior.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Everything he did, he didn’t find a problem with.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Right.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
He didn’t think it was weird.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Different, lets use the word different. Weird, no!

[Ashleigh Banfield]
And as for the kids, regular kids,

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
I.Q’s of a twenty one year old. You know.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Older, certainly, very well mannered,

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
Very.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Very polite.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Polite, just look at this not from Paris, guarding the family cat. Bill I would very much like if if you could get more canned tuna for Kaitie [because I have only #1 can left] thank you so much, I appreciate it very much. [From Paris]

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Sometimes, Hollywood celebrity kids aren’t particularly polite or nice to be around

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
Sometimes they would say little things for us, like um, well Bill daddy wants you to go get some cookies for us. Knowing that they are kids and he didn’t say that.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
They are playing.

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
They would do stuff like that, all we do is ask the client, do you, would you like us to go get, No. Prince get up here. Why are you telling them that.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Taking the kids to fast food drive thru’s was one of Michaels favorite things to do.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
And we would go through a drive thru and he’d insisted on ordering himself.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Michael Jackson, I’ll have a big mac.

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
As we drove to the window to pay for it, he would say if these people only knew

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Who just ordered this. We would just laugh.

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
We would just sit there and laugh, right. They really don’t know.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
They really don’t know.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
They never knew.

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
Can I get a double cheese burger, please.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Was he a pedophile?

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
No

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
No

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
No

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
We don’t believe so.

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
Not at all.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Being a father myself, and being man, men know men. He had the desires like we do.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
In fact, they say that he has at least 2 girlfriends, dispelling the other rumor.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
We had a curtain that covered the back seat, you couldn’t see in the back seat. They talk back there and you know.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
So he is making out in the back seat.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Or chewing loud gum.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Sounds like you are chaperoning two teenagers on a date.

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Right

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Right

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
That was our cue for us.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
As for Michaels bizarre appearance, they say that these bandages had nothing to do with secret surgeries.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Was he concealing an injury with those bandages?

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
No. That disguise to him, was the burn victim – look.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
It was a disguise?

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
A disguise to him.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
When you saw him coming down stairs getting ready to get into the car with the bandages what did you think?

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
Something is up with him

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Yup!

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
What’s going on?

[Mike Garcia - Bodyguard]
Something’s up?

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Did you ever tell him?

[Javon "BJ" Beard - Bodyguard]
How can you tell him that, he’s coming down with the kids so we can’t say, like, what the hell you got on sir.

[Background Music Plays]
Reaching out.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
But perhaps the biggest mystery about Michael Jackson is the one he took to his grave. How and why he died?

[Bill Whitfield - Bodyguard]
It did appear a few times that he was on something. You know, you can tell by his demeenure. It was different from having been around him so long, it changed, you knew something was not right at the moment.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Well they spent two years with that boss, and I should tell you that they did not ask for anything for this interview, they wanna write that book though, tomorrow on GMA we are gonna have a whole lot more, we are gonna go into those finances, credit cards being denied, if you can believe it, being evicted from hotels, not only that the stormy Jackson family relationship. Robin he had to have appointments to see his family. The family members had to have appointments. And also I wanna say tonight on Nighline, we are going to go into further details about this. Are you ready for this, he wanted what you and I have everyday.

[Robin]
Is what?

[Ashleigh Banfield]
He wanted to got to Wallmart, according to these bodyguards and go up to a bar and order a beer.

[Robin]
Just like everybody else.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Just what we take for granted, that’s what he wanted.

[Robin]
What are the stories that you are going to take away that you have a better insight now of the Michael that we didn’t get to see.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Well, I sure did not know this stuff, I’ll tell you and listen, I covered trials for the last five years, so, I had an opinion on this guy going in. But this is different and this is new, we got some web extras actually on ABCnews dot com because man there was a lot of material that they told me that I couldn’t wedge it into this piece. Ah, he wanted to, ah, read constantly, he read the Wall Street Journal, The Rob Report regularly, thousands of books mostly history, insisted that the kids read, the kids loved books, wanted to steal a statue outside a store at one point, that’s a funny moment, and didn’t recognize a lady of ill-repute on the corner when he saw one, he had to be told that it was a prostitute.

[Robin]
You would admit, that you were skeptical going into this.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Absolutely, I was.

[Robin]
There. Not just what they said, but how they said it their reaction, the bodyguards.

[Ashleigh Banfield]
Did you notice they finished each others sentences, they are just a genuine group and I got a good feeling from them.

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