Michael Jackson Explains His Skin Condition and Changing Skin Color

Is your skin lighter because you don't like being black?

Number one, there, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching.

I have never seen it, I don't know what it is.

Well, they used to have those products going up, I used to hear, "always use Bleach and Glow,"

but you'd have to have about 300,000 gallons to...

Okay, number one, this is the situation.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin.

It's something that I cannot help.

Okay? But when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me.

So, it is...

It's a problem for me, okay? I can't control it.

Okay? But what about all the millions of people... let's reverse it.

Okay.

What about all the millions of people who sit out in the sun

to become darker, to become other than what they are?

Nobody says nothing about that.

So when did this start? When did your, the color of your skin start to change?

Oh boy, I don't... sometime after Thriller.

Around Off the Wall, Thriller, sometime around then.

And what did you think? I mean, you...

It's in my family, my father said it's on his side. I can't control it.

I don't understand, I mean, it makes me very sad.

I don't want to go into my medical history because that is private,

but that's the situation here.

So please, when people see something like that...

So, okay, I just want to get this straight. You are not taking anything to change the color of your skin?

Oh God, no. We're trying to control it...

You did not purposely...

And using makeup evens it out 'cause it makes blotches on the skin and I have to even out my skin.