Jermaine Jackson: "I Wish It Was Me"

Matt Lauer ventured to Neverland Ranch for an in-depth interview with Michael Jackson's older brother Jermaine on the Today show this morning - the first with any Jackson family member since the death of MJ.

Jermaine's description of his mother Katherine Jackson's reaction to Michael's death is moving.

"She was crying, saying he was dead. And Matt, to hear my mother say, ‘Michael is dead,’ to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine... He went too soon. I wish that it was me. I’ve always felt that I was his backbone, someone to be there for him. I was there and he was sort of like Moses. The things he couldn’t say, I would say them."

VIA X17