Sheryl Crow says Michael Jackson’s late supervisor Frank DiLeo sexually harassed her and threatened her profession

Sheryl Crow has opened up about how she was sexually harassed by Michael Jackson‘s supervisor Frank DiLeo when she was a backing singer for the music icon.

In a brand new interview with The Independent, Crow additionally defined the “crash course within the music trade” she acquired earlier than making it huge as a solo artist.

“It’s actually fascinating to return and revisit a few of this outdated stuff and the experiences that went together with it, after which to check it with the place we at the moment are,” Crow stated.

“To have the ability to play that stuff in regards to the lengthy bout of sexual harassment I endured in the course of the Michael Jackson tour and to speak about it within the midst of the #MeToo motion … it seems like we’ve come a great distance, nevertheless it doesn’t really feel like we’re fairly there but.”

Crow alleges that DiLeo repeatedly made sexual advances to her and vowed to sabotage her profession if she didn’t comply together with his requests.

She beforehand claimed in her 2020 autobiography Phrases + Music that DiLeo had planted tabloid tales about her “to make Mike seem like he was keen on ladies”, by alleging that Jackson had fallen in love together with her and provided her thousands and thousands to have a toddler.

“Naiveté is such an exquisite factor,” Crow stated. “It was unimaginable in each method, form and type for a teen from a very small city to see the world and to work with arguably the best pop star. However I additionally obtained a crash course within the music trade.”

Crow advised the Impartial that the memoir “was the primary time I’ve ever talked about it and it felt actually uncomfortable, nevertheless it felt, to me, a lot extra empowering to have the ability to speak about it after which play the music that was impressed by it”.

“Isn’t that what music is actually for? To assist us work via no matter our experiences are, and hopefully for the collective to seek out their very own conditions in your music too?,” she stated.

DiLeo died in August 2011 following coronary heart surgical procedure on the age of 63, and managed Jackson each within the late Eighties and in 2009 previous to the singer’s dying.

Crow additionally beforehand claimed to have seen some “actually unusual” issues throughout her time as Michael Jackson’s backing singer.