After a single meeting face-to-face, the pair went on to build a friendship that spanned nearly a decade.
Their dynamic personalities and struggles in the spotlight made for plenty of common ground.
Here’s a look back on their time together.
“It’s about certain kind of girls that hang around concerts or clubs, they call them groupies.
I said ‘No, I took it out of the show because of you.’
She said, ‘No, I want you to do it!
Do the song!'”
Their easy rapport face-to-face translated well to phone calls and they would stay in touch over the phone.
“We were very close,” he said in the interview.
“She was extremely close by phone …
I was still married to Lisa Marie [Presley].
Diana woke me up usually late at night … mostly after three in the morning!
And then she held me for hours on the telephone.
She talked about children, the press.”
And Jackson wasn’t the only one to expound on the special friendship between the two A-listers.
“The intrusion into the private life, having no privacy whatsoever, the children being hounded.”
The friendship surely served them both well.
