Actor Aaron Paul once had a heart-to-heart discussion with Michael Jackson about family and forgiveness. Long before the 34-year-old scored a starring role as Jesse Pinkman on hit TV series Breaking Bad, he had a rare encounter with the King of Pop in 2007, while attending a party thrown by Brunei’s Prince Azim celebrating his 25th birthday party at a castle in the UK. The Thriller star advised the future Breaking Bad actor that all hurts could be healed if he was able to forgive people.
Paul told Details magazine that he attended the bash as a guest of another attendee, but when he unexpectedly encountered the music icon, he had no idea what to expect from their once-in-a-lifetime meeting. However, they instantly hit it off and bonded in an unusual way.
While recollecting his memories from that day, Aaron said, “I was going back up to my room, and this guy grabs me and says, ‘Hey, Prince Azim wants to see you in the library.’ So I go down there, and he’s sitting on the couch with Michael Jackson, and then Jackson and I end up having this hour-long heart-to-heart about family and upbringing. I remember he just put his arm around my shoulder and said, ‘You know, if you’ve had a rough childhood or not, it’s all about forgiveness. Once you realise that, it’s fine. Everything’s fine’.”
“And I’m like, ‘Michael, you are absolutely right’. And then I go, ‘Do you want to do a shot?’ And he goes, ‘Sure!’ And I was like, ‘Okay, Michael, let’s do this’,” added Paul.
He said, “We got there and I see a 1,000 sheep surrounding the castle, and I said, ‘Let’s go chase after them.’ So me and the prince and the princesses chased the animals.”
However, things could have gone wrong for the actor as he broke one of the prince’s hovercrafts. Aaron commented, “Nobody else was riding them, but if I have a chance to hovercraft around a castle, I’m going to hovercraft.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 11th, 2014.
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