Elton John - My Mother Told Me She Didn't Like Me - TO MY FACE!

Well, that explains a lot.

I’m sick of hearing rich famous peoples problems.

He's worth reading about if he wrote/had ghostwritten with any frankness.

Oh Elton, nobody likes you

Since that clearly fake anecdote he told about the queen, I wouldn't take what he says at face value.

I have friends with parents like that. Nothing is ever OK, let alone good or worthy of praise. The negativity is toxic. It is a form of sociopathy.

The first time I've felt sorry for Dame Elton. (He's royal now, right?)

No. Not royal. Regal.

MARY!

A face even a mom could not love.

I don't like you either, Elton.

There's nothing wrong with that. He may have been an unlikable person around her. Being loved is more important than being liked anyway.

Even she knew he was a crank.

I've read about his mum before this. She was cruel and unusual. I was surprised when he made his peace with her.

Team Mom.

Team Mom also.

She was a cunt, but he has a weird childish vindictness whenever he speaks about her. It doesn’t come off as an adult talking about an abusive parent, more like a kindergartner complaining to their parents about the kid in class they don’t like. And his weird demonizing of her in Rocketman bugged me. Even if she was an evil bitch, there’s no way she was as much of a mustache twirling villain as he’s always made her out to be. If he’s adult enough to admit his father neglected and mistreated him due to his own psychological and emotional baggage, he should be adult enough to acknowledge his mother did the same for the same reasons.

It’s really hard to sympathize with a man who still acts like a vindictive little kid in his old age.

Eltona and Meghan Markle are birds of feather. One despises one's mother, the other abhors her dad.

R17 you clearly did not have an emotionally abusive parent. Trust me, it can cause a lifetime of hatred even after the parent is long dead.

Well, you have to admit: he's not very likable, is he? She was clearly on to something.

He is a very unlikable person. A real cunt.

Princess Diana ghosted him after she found out he was talking shit about her.

Oh the pathos and melodrama!

[quote] “I knew what was coming, and I let her get on with it. And I just said, ‘I love you, Mum,’ and she said, ‘I love you, too. I don’t like you, but I love you. But I don’t like you.’”

I'm sorry, but if she did say she loved him, what else did he expect?

Your mother should love you, but she is absolutely not required to like you, especially if you're a fat pig who throws tantrums and sucks up to famous people.

Hey Elton, if nobody likes you, even your own mother, maybe the problem is that you just aren't likeable!

So what? This is very common and we don't piss and moan endlessy about it.

he really stuck the knife in and twisted it having Bryce Dallas Howard play her

He should have had Roseanne play her.

I don't like R26 either.

I had a mother just like that- dependably would light into me my entire life- it’s not uncommon. The anger I built crippled me. I too accepted and forgave her (a continuous process) and told her I loved her the last 20 years of her life. These acts dissipated my anger. Turns out I did not love her most likely. But then I had to survive. I did accept her as she was, Stopped resisting and fighting; and even understand her (she was damaged badly by my even more abusive grandmother). Just like Elton said- my Mom would not change but I could. I love his image of the pilot light in his blackened soul willing to be saved at the end of his substance abuse. This is a great (short) chat. He likes his life- he’s not a brat- he’s a huge talent and success who appreciates his success but that did not protect him from an abusive mother or his own insecurities. There is lots of gratitude for his career and his family in this chat if you actually pay attention to it. This is a guy who has lived an examined life, perhaps because he had to so that he would not become another Whitney/Michael/Judy/Elvis. He’s at peace and alive. They are at peace due to death. I’m going to read his biography.

He is a damaged person. Damaged by his parents and his own self loathing. Only those of us who had parents like Elton's know what it's like, and how the hurt and pain and abuse affects you even in little ways you don't realise. The anger, the outbursts, the childishness, the substance abuse, the sex addiction etc. are all signs of someone who has not been adequately loved and who doesn't love themselves. No amount of money can take away the pain of a parent who doesn't love you.

His mother should come back and throw a bottle of Listerine at him!

he has halitosis ?

Elton should do a cover of 'Blues In The Night'.

My mama done tol' me When I was in pigtails My mama done tol' me A man's gonna sweet-talk and give you the big eyes But when the sweet-talking's done A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing Who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night

[quote]I have friends with parents like that. Nothing is ever OK, let alone good or worthy of praise. The negativity is toxic.

So what? Half the Jewish mothers in the world are like that. That's what made Rhoda Morgenstern such a great character. Her mother was like that.

No one is acknowledging the undercurrent of homophobia in her shaming him?

But Ida LOVED her Rhoda Fay and Brenda Fay. Plus it was a sit-com, not a documentary.

[quote]But Ida LOVED her Rhoda Fay and Brenda Fay. Plus it was a sit-com, not a documentary.

She loved them but she didn't like them. A lot of my friends had Jewish mothers like that. Constantly picking at their children.

R36, Elton John is friends with Rush Limbaugh and sang at his wedding. He should be ashamed.

He sang at his wedding, FOR A HUGE FEE. I seriously doubt he's seen Limbaugh face to face since that day. They don't visit each other, or stay at each other's homes to my knowledge. "Friends" is a term that is used much too frequently and incorrectly. They're "friendly" toward each other. That does not mean they pal around with each other as friends do

Many mothers don't like their kids.

I don't like him either. I like his talent.

And for good reason many times.

R43 was in response to R41.

Elton John has bad breath?

He's already said this before, I'm absolutely sure of it. Maybe in that book back in the 1990s? Something I read in high school, at any rate. Also I am pretty sure it came up when he and his mother were attacking each other in the tabloids.

He wants sympathy but he's completely and totally unlikable and it's hard to blame his mother, even if she is his mother, he's just that unappealing.

[quote]he’s not a brat

He unequivocally is! It's the one characteristic of his that is unassailable. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Elton John is a brat.

Boo hoo, Elton. Fly Harry and his awful wife on your private jet to your yacht to tell you how fabulous you are.

Maybe he has tonsil stones, that can create breath that literally smells like feces. Then again his teeth ALWAYS looked jacked, so maybe he never brushes. He’s never been a handsome man, and unfortunately looks worse with the hair transplant.

He’s an egotist. His mother is right. She said she loved him no matter what. But that he’s not a very nice person - which is likely true. When he has everyone around him saying he’s great, he needs someone to tell him the truth. But of course he rejects it as untrue.

He's like Barbra Streisand with her step father. Despite being huge stars, they keep obsessing about what happened to them when they were 10 years old. The world adores you. You can have anything you want. Quit whining and move on.

Everybody hurts. Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Love stinks! Love is a battlefield. Mama, he's crazy! Everybody wants to rule the world!

He's not a brat, he's a bitch.

Elton John was never cool and never will be.

Okay, I started reading a bio of Elton, and gave up in the mid seventies. Apparently his fall from #1 status began when he stopped writing cheerful pop songs that everyone liked, and released an album that was all whining about how he and Bernie had suffered during their early days. As if the early suffering mattered more than the early success!

Elton is just one of those miserable bitches who can never let go of a negative feeling, who not only can't forgive but who has no idea what forgiveness is. Isn't he.

I've always had a soft spot for Dame Elton.

r10, lol, you are a wicked cunt.

I don't know if Elton has bad breath or not. I was just poking fun at him for throwing an open bottle of mouth wash at David Furnish one time when they got into a quarrel.

I know how to deal with a Tiny Dancer.

The mother got the son she deserved.

To be fair, he is quite unlikeable.

Both him and his mother are horrible people with entitlement complexes. Case closed.

Amen R2. You've received a record 20 'Wit and Wisdom' upvotes my friend.

Reg' has lived the fullness of his years, has been coasting off of one productive decade to the of millions of dollars and we are supposed to care that his mother agrees with the rest of humanity in that he one nasty, self-promoting, egotistical pain in the ass.

Tonight we are all Elton's mother

Smart lady.

What did Kiki Dee think of his mother?