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Russell Crowe says Michael Jackson used to prank call him

The actor said he had never met Michael Jackson but received prank calls from him for years.

By Kate Stanton
Russell Crowe says he never met Michael Jackson, though the late performer used to prank call him. File photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Russell Crowe says he never met Michael Jackson, though the late performer used to prank call him. File photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, March 31 (UPI) -- The King of Pop used to make a lot of prank calls, according to Russell Crowe.

The 50-year-old actor recently told The Guardian that Michael Jackson prank called him for several years -- though the two had never met.

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"For two or three f**king years," Crowe said.

"I never met him, never shook his hand, but he found out the name I stayed in hotels under, so it didn't matter where I was, he'd ring up do this kind of thing, like you did when you were 10, you know," he added.

Crowe said Jackson's prank calls were usually innocent jokes.

"'Is Mr. Wall there? Is Mrs. Wall there? Are there any Walls there? Then what's holding the roof up? Ha ha.' You're supposed to grow out of doing that, right?"

Crowe has mentioned Jackson's calls before, telling The Sun in 2013 that the late pop star once told him there was an emergency.

"I'd ask, 'Who is this?' And he'd say, 'Do not worry Russell, just kidding, this is Michael.'"

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