Est. 1998
Last night Uri Geller appeared on the Connie Chung show which is televised on the CNN TV channel in America.
During this interview Uri Geller demonstrated his spoon-bending talent and also answered some questions relating to his friend Michael Jackson.
The following is an excerpt from the transcript of this interview:
GELLER: I actually discovered my ability when I was 4 years old. I was eating soup in my mother’s kitchen and the spoon bent and broke. And my mother, she’s related to Sigmund Freud. And she was sure that I inherited certain…
CHUNG: Oh, she is not.
GELLER: Yes, she is. My name is actually Uri Geller Freud in my British passport. So, she thought that I inherited certain powers from him. But, throughout my life, I’ve been very controversial, because there are lots of people who don’t believe in this. They think that I have chemicals or I prepare the spoons and so on. But, still, controversy was great for me.
And, apparently, in my opinion, this is what Michael Jackson saw. In the early ’70s, he must have seen me on ‘Mike Douglas’ or ‘Merv Griffin’. And it amazed him. And that’s what got him interested in the supernatural.
CHUNG: I see. Well, how did you meet him? Because I understand you say he is a friend of yours, right?
GELLER: Oh, absolutely.
Michael was my best man when I renewed my wedding vows last year. And I also made him an honorary director of my football club. I’m a chairman of a British soccer team.
CHUNG: Yes.
GELLER: Called Exeter City Football Club. So, Michael is our director, believe it or not.
CHUNG: How did you meet?
GELLER: We met through Mr. Mohamed Al-Fayed, who, of course, you know who lost his son Dodi, with Princess Diana.
And when I was with Mohamed, Michael called of the blue. And Mohamed said to him: Michael, Uri Geller is sitting next to me. And I heard Michael say: Uri Geller? And he handed me the phone. This was about four years ago. And he said to me: Uri, I’ve been dying to meet you all these years. And two weeks later, I flew to New York and we met. And the chemistry was there. It was an amazing meeting.
CHUNG: When you first met Michael face to face, can you describe him?
GELLER: Yes. You see, I was waiting to see something that I read about all the time, about the nose and about his face and about how awful he looked.
And I’ll never forget the first time I saw him. I entered his suite. It was in a New York hotel. And Michael came out of his bedroom. He had no makeup.
CHUNG: No makeup?
GELLER: He was just — no makeup.
There he was. And I was astounded, because he actually looks fantastic. He has a very powerful face. And I was waiting for all these terrible things. And they were simply not there.
Source: CNN & MJWN
