Right after the Berlin balcony scandal in 2002, Michael was sitting in a quiet hotel room in the Adlon’s presidential suite. The world outside was calling him “dangerous” and “irresponsible.” Inside that room, he was doing something completely different.
He was simply feeding his baby.
In this rare moment, Michael is holding his nine-month-old son, Blanket, close on his lap. The baby’s face is covered with a light gold scarf. Michael keeps adjusting it, carefully making sure his child’s identity stays hidden. You can see how serious he is about protecting his kids from cameras and strangers.
He checks the milk on his wrist before feeding, gently whispers “Abu,” and burps the baby on his shoulder. There is no superstar here. No King of Pop. Just a soft-spoken father who looks completely focused on his child.
At the same time, journalist Martin Bashir is sitting in front of him, calmly questioning him about the balcony moment. While the world is judging him, Michael keeps repeating, “I would never hurt my children. It is ignorant to think that.” You can hear the hurt in his voice, but you can also see how steady his hands are with his son.
Michael Jackson feeding his son Prince Michael II
What makes that quiet feeding moment so powerful is what happened just before it. Only hours earlier, Michael stepped out onto the same hotel balcony in Berlin with his baby in his arms.
The street below was full of screaming fans, cameras, and flashing lights. In a split second, he lifted Blanket over the railing so the crowd could see him. That brief moment was captured, frozen, and replayed around the world as proof that he was a “dangerous” father.
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And if all of this feels one-sided or unfair, there is one more part of the story you almost never see. After the first documentary came out and painted him as a strange and unsafe father, Michael felt deeply betrayed. So he did something bold: he released his own behind-the-scenes footage, filmed by his personal cameraman, to show what really happened when the cameras were “off.”
This follow-up documentary reveals a very different Martin Bashir. You hear him warmly praising Michael as a loving, careful parent, telling him that his relationship with his children is “spectacular” and even saying it almost makes him cry.