Michael Jackson’s good friend, record producer Quincy Jones, told Details magazine that Jackson was addicted to chemical peels. He compares Jackson’s plastic surgery obsession to drug and alcohol addiction.

“I’ve been around junkies and stuff all my life. I’ve heard every excuse,” he says. “But [Jackson] he’d come up with, ‘Man, I promise you I have this disease,’ and so forth, and ‘I have a blister on my lungs,’ and all that kind of b.s…and I don’t understand it. But he obviously didn’t want to be black.”