Did Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson love each other?

The Jackson-Rowe friendship would last for several years, during which, Rowe divorced Richard Edelman, a teacher at Hollywood High School and a man she claimed to have felt trapped by.

Row and Jackson would often talk to each other about their bad luck in love and unhappy marriages; hers with Edelman, and then years later, Jackson’s with Lisa Marie Presley.

In September 1996, Michael Jackson embarked on the first leg of his HIStory World Tour. Several months after his divorce from Presley and one month into the tour, Jackson’s personal life made headlines as it was revealed that Rowe was pregnant with his child.

To counteract negative press attention over their marriage, Michael Jackson made the statement, “Debbie and I love each other for all the things you’ll never see on stage or in pictures… I fell for the beautiful, unpretentious, giving person that she is, and she fell for me just being me”.