| Michael has been quoted as saying that during the allegations he
could count his true friends on one hand. Some of his friends may have
disappointed him because of their silence, while others may have
provided support privately. We may not be aware of all the people that
came to Michael's support publicly, as their statements of support
were rarely reported by the media, but here are those that we know to
have came to Michael's support:
Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Jane Fonda, Corey Feldman, Mariah
Carey, Bruce Willis, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone, k.d. lang, Howard
Carpedale, Maximilian Schell, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Katherine,
Joseph, Janet, Jackie, Marlon, Rebbie, and Tito Jackson, J. Randy
Taraborrelli, Flo Anthony, Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney, Tony Toni
Tone, Lisa Marie Presley, Macaulay Culkin, Yoko Ono, Tevin Campbell,
Queen Latifah, Kim Fields, Sinbad, Bryant Gumble, Mary A. Fischer,
Bill Bellamy, Barbara Eden, Michael Peters, Shanice, Carol Burnett,
3T, Alfonso Ribiero, Frank Dileo, NAACP, Los Angeles area ministers,
Jeanne White (Ryan's mother), Kieran Culkin (Macaulay's mother), Teddy
Riley, Donnie Wahlberg & Joe Macintyre (from the New Kids On The
Block), Smokey Robinson, Lynne Gold-Bikin (President of the
Association of the American Barristers), Bruce Swedien, Lauren
Shuler-Donner (film producer), and Phil Collins |
