Maybe he wanted a duet partner.
Michael Jackson spent thousands of dollars bizarrely trying to get his prized chimp, Bubbles, to speak, a new report says.
The singer dished out the dough on a procedure to implant vocal chords in the primate but abandoned the idea after learning that the surgery could prove fatal, his sister LaToya told Britain’s News of the World.
Bubbles, now 26, lives at a Florida ape sanctuary.