Lionel Richie has been spilling secrets, and it turns out Michael Jackson wasn’t always quite so polished off stage.

The 76-year-old Grammy winner and American Idol judge has just dropped his new memoir, Truly, and it’s packed with never-before-heard stories from a life lived alongside some of music’s biggest names.

One chapter in particular shines a light on his close friendship with Michael Jackson at the height of his fame.

According to Richie, the pair were deeply bonded through music, but couldn’t have been more different when it came to everyday life.

While Jackson could obsessively pick apart 15 different mixes of the same song, he was, to put it politely, a bit chaotic in other areas.

‘His day-to-day life was what you could call eccentric. Like an absent-minded professor but s

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