About this accident, Michael Jackson wrote in his autobiography:

I planned to spend most of my time in 1984 realizing what I wanted to do in the movie. wishes, but those plans were delayed. First, in January, I was injured in a fire while filming a commercial for Pepsi-Cola with my brother.

The reason for the fire is simple and ridiculous. We were shooting at night, and all I had to do was have some magnesium bombs explode on either side of me and behind me as I walked down the stairs. It seemed easy, I just walked down the stairs while the magnesium bomb exploded. We did it several times and it was very successful every time. The light effect produced by the explosion of the magnesium bomb was great. It was only later that I discovered that these magnesium bombs were only two feet away from my head, which was not in compliance with safety regulations at all. I was standing in the middle of the exploding magnesium bombs, only two feet away on either side.

At this point, my director, Bob Girardi, came up to me and said, "Michael, you came down too early, we need to see you standing there, on the stairs. When the fire lights up, we need to be able to see you standing there, so just wait, don't be so anxious."

So I waited, and magnesium bombs exploded on both sides of me, sparks flying. It got on my hair and started to burn. I was dancing and spinning down the stairs, and I hadn't felt it yet. Suddenly when I raised my hand, I felt the fire on my head. I wanted to shake it off, but I fell down. As soon as the explosion sounded, Jermaine turned around and saw me falling to the ground. He thought I had been shot by someone in the crowd. At that time, we were filming in front of a large audience, so Jermaine Eun would think so.

Mico Brando, who worked for me, was the first one to come to me and all hell broke loose and everyone went crazy. No movie can capture the drama of that night accurately. Describe it. People were shouting and shouting, and one person shouted: "Hurry up! Get ice!" There was a sound of running. Everyone yelled: "Oh, God! No!" The ambulance came quickly. Before I was carried into the car, I saw the directors of Pepsi-Cola huddled in a corner, terrified. The ambulance personnel carried me When I was loading the stretcher, they were so frightened that they forgot to check on me.

At that time, in addition to the terrible pain, I felt a little schadenfreude. I saw the whole process of this farce with my own eyes. People told me I was scared, but I remember being happy in the ambulance. I had never been in an ambulance with the siren blaring while it was speeding. This was something I wanted to do as a child. One of many things to do. When I arrived at the hospital, people told me that news reporters were swarming outside and waiting. I hurried to put on my white gloves. Wearing gloves and waving to people from a stretcher, it became a very famous news photo.

Later, a doctor told me that it was a miracle that I survived. A firefighter once said that in most cases when your clothes catch fire, you are likely to be disfigured or burned to death. I almost did that, I had third degree burns on the back of my head and nearly damaged my skull, which got me into a lot of trouble, but I was still lucky.

The result, as we now know, was that the commercial was expanded, Pepsi sold more, and for that, Pepsi paid me the highest advertising fee ever paid for an advertising contract. It was so unprecedented that the Guinness Book of World Records also included the news in its book. Later, I shot another commercial for Pepsi-Cola called "Kids," and I gave them a hard time and asked them to reduce some of my shots because I felt those shots were unsatisfactory. The ad later became a success and they admitted I was right.

To this day, I still clearly remember the horrified expressions of the directors of Pepsi-Cola on the night of the fire. They thought that if I really burned out, then every American child would be drinking Pepsi-Cola. There will be a bitter taste in your mouth.

They also knew that I would sue, which I did, but I performed so well and so amazingly that they compensated me for $1.5 million, which I immediately donated to the Michael Jackson Burn Treatment Center. When I was in the hospital I saw many burn patients and they moved me so much that I felt I had to do something for them.