Elton John has called Michael Jackson ‘a disturbing person’ (Picture: Rex/Getty)

Elton John’s new book is said to claim that Michael Jackson was ‘a disturbing person’ and suggested the singer had ‘totally lost his marbles’ by the 2000s.

The star is baring all in a new soon-to-be-released memoir, Me: Elton John, in which he’s detailing his battle with drugs and his run-ins with royalty.

But he also opened up on the so-called King Of Pop, reportedly questioning ‘what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of’ and claiming that he ‘couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all’.

‘The poor guy looked awful, really frail and ill,’ the Rocket Man singer allegedly wrote in his book, writing that Jackson’s nose was ‘covered with a sticking plaster’ and his make-up has been applied by a ‘maniac’.




Jackson died in 2009.

‘The poor guy looked awful, really frail and ill,’ said the Rocket Man singer (Picture: Getty)

According to Radar Online, Elton shared that during a lunch together in the 1990s, the Man In The Mirror singer disappeared ‘without a word’ and was later found inside of the cottage of John’s housekeeper ‘quietly playing games’ with her 11-year-old son.

‘For whatever reason, he couldn’t seem to cope with adult company at all,’ the book alleged reads, with John reportedly later writing that Jackson was ‘genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around’ and that he had ‘totally lost his marbles’ by the 2000s.

Elton has been dishing all of the dirt in his memoir (Picture: Getty Images)

Elton has been dishing all of the dirt in his memoir, with one story claiming that Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone (almost literally) were fighting over Princess Diana.

A chapter of the 72-year-old singer’s book was serialised in the Daily Mail, sharing the bizarre story about the two actors vying for the attention for the late Princess of Wales.

As the group all enjoyed dinner, Elton wrote: ‘I couldn’t help [but] notice a strange atmosphere in the room. Judging by the kind of looks he kept shooting them, Diana and Richard Gere’s newly blossoming friendship was not going down well with Sylvester Stallone at all.

‘I think he may have turned up to the party with the express intention of picking Diana up, only to find his plans for the evening ruined,’ Elton mused.

Diana and Elton John were close friends (Picture: Getty Images)

The evening progressed as Elton noted Diana and Richard were ‘locked in rapt conversation’ but when it was time for dinner to be served, Richard and Sylvester were nowhere to be seen.

Elton asked David if he could go and see where they might have gotten to and after a little while, David came back and muttered: ‘We have a situation’.

Elton explained: ‘It transpired that he’d discovered Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere in the corridor, squaring up to each other, apparently about to settle their differences over Diana by having a fist-fight.’

Me: Elton John is out on 15 October.

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