Chris Tucker on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

July 27, 2011

Jay Leno: Now tell me about, I know you were good friends with Michael Jackson. You guys hang out. So tell me about that. What was it like hanging with Michael?

Chris Tucker: It was amazing.

Jay Leno: Were you at up his house? At Neverland?

Chris Tucker: Yeah man it was amazing. For me to grow up be you know, just idolize Michael, then meet him then I was in his videos and stuff and become friends with him was an honor. You know I just loved to going to Neverland. We just go up there and we just be sitting in Michael’s living room and talking. All of a sudden a giraffe would just walk by the window .
I said “Michael what was that"?”.
“It’s my giraffe Do you want to meet him?”
I said “Yeah I want to meet him. Man I didn’t know you had a giraffe. Yeah.”