Magic Johnson Recalls Hanging Up on Michael Jackson and Hosting Prince's Pajama Party at His Movie Theater

The former NBA player dished about the past during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of 'The Jennifer Hudson Show'

Magic Johnson is sharing throwback stories.

The former NBA player, 64, appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, where dished on memories involving Michael Jackson and Prince, who he let have a pajama party at one of his movie theaters.

When it came to the former, Johnson said Jackson was calling about appearing in his 1992 music video for “Remember the Time.”

“So I get a call, ‘Magic I want to talk to you.’ So I hung the phone up,” Johnson recalled to Hudson. “So the phone rang two minutes later, ‘Magic this is Michael Jackson,’ I said, ‘This not Michael Jackson,’ so I hung the phone up again.”

“So I knew Jackie Jackson very well, his brother. So his brother called and say, ‘Magic, that was really Michael calling you,' ” Johnson continued. “No, no! Please, I’ll call him back!”

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He said that when he finally spoke to Jackson, he spent an hour apologizing. “‘I am so sorry,’ I thought somebody was playing a joke on me right,” he recalled.

“So he says, ‘I’m doing this video and I want to do one with the two MJs, one with you and one with Michael Jordan,’” Johnson said, adding that Jackson then asked, “Can you come to my house tonight?”

Recreating his surprised facial expression, Johnson replied, “Can I come to your house? Man, what time do you want me there?”

Explaining how he went to Jackson’s home and was seated at a long table, the former Los Angeles Lakers star revealed that he ordered grilled chicken and vegetables because he thought that Jackson would eat a healthy dish.

However, when Johnson realized the “Thriller” singer had ordered KFC, he screamed, “Michael, you eat Kentucky Fried Chicken!” The player added, “I said, ‘Hold up, I gotta come down there and share that bucket!’ We sat on the floor and tore that chicken up!”

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Johnson also opened up about how Prince requested to have a pajama party at one of his Magic Johnson Theatre locations.

Johnson recalled that Prince wanted to come at 1 a.m. in the morning with a "busload" of people and that they’d all be wearing pajamas. He then explained to Hudson that he went to inform his manager and made sure there was staff that would assist Prince and his people.

“I went to sleep and got back up at 12, I had to make sure he was okay,” Johnson said. “So here come the buses, people came in and I tell you something, they were like little kids, laughing at every joke, everything that happened, wearing pajamas. I mean just what he said would happen happened.”

“And that was one of the biggest thrills to have Prince in the hood at my theater with his team of people, that was wonderful,” Johnson said. “It shows you how important those theaters were to the community,” adding that Jackson also had the premiere of “Thriller” at one of his theaters.

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