Michael Jackson’s friend ‘knew the real reason’ he wore single white glove on right hand

A single white glove became a signature accessory for Michael Jackson over the journey of his career and actor Cicely Tyson stated that she had been aware of the motivation behind him wearing that gloves.

A single white glove became a signature look for Michael Jackson during his career

Michael Jackson 1^st had a glove designed for him to “camouflage” signs of the skin condition vitiligo, as per to someone who knew him in an unearthed interview.

A single white glove became a signature accessory for the late vocalist – who passed away in 2009 – over the course of his career, with him often wearing it on his right hand.

Vitiligo is a condition where the skin loses its colour in patches most commonly on the face, neck and hands.

It is caused by the lack of melanin – the pigment in skin – and affects one in every one hundred people.

Late actor Cicely Tyson – who’s understood to have known Michael – talked about the creation of his glove whilst she was discussing the vocalist at his memorial service in 2009.

A single white glove was a signature accessory for the late Michael Jackson

Late actor Cicely Tyson stated about the accessory in 2009 following Michael’s passing.

Cicely – who starred in movies like Sounder (1972) and later starred in the series How to Get Away With Murder – spoke about Michael in an interview with CNN at the time.

She stated correspondent Don Lemon that she had shared a fashion designer with Michael, reportedly in the 1980s. She went on to discuss the designer working on a glove.

Cicely had remembered: “All of a sudden, [my designer] told me ‘I’m doing this glove for Michael’. Well, Michael was started to develop the vitiligo and it started on his hand.”

She asserted that the gloves had been created to cover signs of the condition, with her saying: “The glove was to camouflage it. That’s how that glove came into being.”

After being questioned about that how she knew that, Cicely – who later died in 2021 – said to the correspondent during her interview about the late vocalist: “I was there when he was creating it”.