Joe Jackson: I never beat Michael

BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, said that he never beat his son or made any mistakes in raising him, media reported Wednesday.

Asked about stories that he was abusive to his son as a child by CNN's Larry King, Jackson said "Oh, that's a bunch of bull S. That's a bunch of bull S."

"You never physically harmed him?"

Joe Jackson, the father of deceased pop star Michael Jackson, poses for photographers backstage at the BET Awards '09 in Los Angeles June 28, 2009.(Xinhua/ Reuters, File Photo)

"Never. Never have. And I -- and I raised him just like you would raise your kids, you know? But harm Michael, for what? I have no reason. That's my son. I loved him and I still love him," Jackson said.

He said he made no mistakes in raising his children.

"Michael was raised properly," he said. "He didn't run the streets like most of those other kids that was in his neighborhood."

While denying any child abuse, Joe Jackson's explanation did leave the question of spanking:

"The media keep hollering about saying that I beat Michael. That's not true. You know what this beat started -- beat started in the slavery days.

"But, hey, a lot of people in America spank their kids, you know? They say they don't, they're lying. They're lying. Now, Michael was never beaten by me, I've never beaten at all."

He said he was not surprised or hurt to learn Michael left him out of his will, which was written in 2002 and placed all of Jackson's assets into a family trust that benefits his mother, the three children and various charities.