NBA icon Magic Johnson recalls hanging up on Michael Jackson twice before sharing KFC bucket with le

MAGIC Johnson has opened up on his remarkable first encounters with pop icon Michael Jackson. Unfortunately for the NBA legend, his first interaction with Jackson was far from a smooth one. 5 5 5 With the intention of getting Johnson to make an appearance in the video for his 1992 single, Remember The Time, Jackson

MAGIC Johnson has opened up on his remarkable first encounters with pop icon Michael Jackson.

Unfortunately for the NBA legend, his first interaction with Jackson was far from a smooth one.

With the intention of getting Johnson to make an appearance in the video for his 1992 single, Remember The Time, Jackson called the then-retired NBA Hall of Famer.

"Magic I want to talk to you," Johnson recollected hearing over the phone, during an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show.

Thinking it was a prank call, the Los Angeles Lakers icon hung up.

"The phone rang two minutes later, 'Magic this is Michael Jackson," he explained.

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"I said, 'This is not Michael Jackson,' so I hung the phone up again.

"So I knew Jackie Jackson very well, his brother. So his brother called and said, 'Magic, that was really Michael calling you.'

"'No, no! Please, I'll call him back! I am so sorry, I thought somebody was playing a joke on me right.'"

After apologizing to Jackson "For an hour," Johnson remembered him explaining that he wanted "'To do one with the two MJs, one with you and one with Michael Jordan. Can you come to my house tonight?'

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"'Can I come to your house? What time do you want me there?'"

Having made his way to Jackson's home, and eager to impress his "Hero," Johnson "Ordered some grilled chicken and vegetables, cause I'm thinking he eating healthy, so I'm eating healthy too."

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The two sat then sat down at either end of a long dinner table, with Johnson brought his nutritious meal first.

Then to his surprise, once the cloche was removed, he saw that Jackson had ordered "A bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

"I start screaming. 'Michael, you eat Kentucky Fried Chicken!'

"I said, 'Hold up, I gotta come down there and share that bucket with you!'

"I went down there, we sat on the floor, and tore that chicken up!"

Johnson did indeed end up performing in Jackson's music video, along with the likes of Eddie Murphy, Tom Lister Jr., and Iman.

The single wound up going platinum three times in the U.S.

And not only did it clearly leave its mark on Jackson's fans, but also Johnson.

"I have never seen a guy that can dance like this young man, for hours, and sing and perform like he could perform," Johnson said.

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"I've been on three tours with them, there's nobody that's ever been on this earth that could do what Michael Jackson could do."

Johnson described Jackson as "Such a person of perfection, everything had to be right."

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