Shmuley Boteach: Did you know that that was part of being corrupted as a child when you start feeling that way—hatred? Did you know, “I gotta get rid of this somehow. I gotta do something about this”?

Michael Jackson: Yeah, I wanted to become such a wonderful performer that I would get love back.

SB: So you could change him, you thought. If you . . . so you thought that if you became a great star, very successful, and were loved by the world, your father would love you too.