'By the time I reached my teens I'd been exposed to most grown up things...' What happened to Michael Jackson in The Jackson 5?

Michael Jackson admitted he had "been exposed to most grown up things" by the time he was a teenager due to his life on the road with The Jackson 5.

The late King of Pop and his brothers - Jackie Jackson, 74, the late Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, 70, Marlon Jackson, 68 - were booked to perform at strip clubs by their father-and-manager Joe Jackson when they were at the start of their music career and one of Michael's "worst memories" was watching an exotic dancer "called Rose Marie" push her underwear into the faces of the audience to make them sniff it when he was just six years old. An act he considered to be "disgusting".

Michael - who died aged 50 in June 2009 from acute Propofol intoxication - also claimed that female Jackson 5 fans would flash their nude bodies at his brothers as he looked on and that witnessing these acts as a child resulted in him being wary of women.

The Billie Jean singer is quoted in the 1994 book Michael Jackson - The Bad Year as saying: "Ever since I was young I've been surrounded by strange sights. Like fans ripping off their coats, and standing nude in front of me. And being sent mountains of sexy letters with every kind of suggestion in them. You wouldn't believe some of the things that I saw at an early age. One of the worst memories that I'll never erase is a stripper who played the same club we did when I was six. She was called Rose Marie. After she had taken everything off she pushed her underwear in the faces of the audience and made them sniff it. It was disgusting. By the time I reached my teens I guess I'd been exposed to most grown up things."

In the book - written by renowned Fleet Street journalist Rick Sky - it is also claimed that from an early age Michael was "thrust into sex play in the dives where the Jackson Five played as his father had devised a stage routine which included a sexually crude act: at the end of a song the young Michael had to go into the audience, crawl under the tables and lift up the women's skirts".

Michael had a distrust of women as he got older and became the world's biggest pop star because he never knew what their true motives were, so he preferred to be single.

The Remember The Time hitmaker did marry on two occasions; first to Lisa Marie Presley - the late daughter of Elvis Presley - between 1994 and 1996 and to nurse Debbie Rowe from 1996 to 2000.