Still Jackson continued his denials, telling Martin Bashir he’d only had two nose jobs – as he can remember’.

“He needed a plastic nose that took hours to put on with putty and makeup,” he told the New York Post’s Page Six, claiming Jackson’s entire transformation was sparked by not wanting to look like his father Joe who he ‘hated’. Music video director Rudi Dolezal alleged that when he was filming the Dangerous tour in Munich in 1992, he was told Jackson refused to appear on camera if he wasn’t performing because, “on those days, he doesn’t have a nose.”

Delievered by painful injections, patients are often anesthetized first with propofol – the drug he would later rely on as a sleep aid before it killed him.īy 2002, rumours were rife that Jackson’s real nose had completely collapsed, forcing him to wear a prosthetic. Those close to the star claimed that he’d turned to steroids instead of surgery, with the drugs causing skin thinning. The source added: “Jackson’s face which he had so painfully reworked and concealed from the public for decades now lay out in the open undisguised under the harsh lights.”įor years Jackson denied having anything other than two rhinoplasty procedures – the first being in 1979 when he fell while dancing and broke his nose.ĭelighted with the results, the star debuted his slimmed-down nose on the cover for his Off The Wall album, and in 1981 he underwent a second surgery.īut despite his denials, by the early nineties his nose had changed considerably, becoming increasingly thin and with a forever-narrowing tip that turned up at the end. “The prosthesis he normally attached to his damaged nose was missing, revealing bits of cartilage surrounding a small dark hole,” the onlooker told Rolling Stone magazine of the horrifying scene.

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