“I don’t want to know,” he says.
Asks Oprah: “You don’t want to know?”
Yes, says Mike, “Because if I know, then there might be a blame for it. And if there’s somebody to blame for it, there will be a problem.”
He adds: “My first instinct was a lot of rage, you know, and I was so happy that I had the tools in life, you know, to not go in that direction because I’ve been that direction. I know where that’s gonna lead me. I know I’m not gonna win.”
On the topic of rage, Oprah asks Mike about his Barbara Walters interview with Robin Givens back in the late 1980s when she talked about him hitting her, and he says, “I truly wanted to sock her. But I just didn’t do it. …” Oprah then asks if he socked Robin after the interview. “No, not afterwards. I didn’t sock her. I wanted to sock her. I have socked her before. And she socked me before as well. But it was just that kind of relationship, you know?”
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That is HORRIBLE. I don’t think I would want to know the details either.
I haven’t seen the show yet, but I’ll be watching it later for sure.
I’m really sorry for him having lost his daughter, esp. in such a way that must have been horrible.
Poor man has been through sooo much. I feel so badly for him. I wish him nothing but happiness and peace.
So sad, and its a shame because he seems like a basically nice person!