Cybill Shepherd is speaking out about the death of Michael Jackson, which she compares to the loss of another world-famous icon: Elvis Presley.

"Losing that kind of person, who's come to mean so much to so many people, really brings us together," she tells ET. "It becomes a chance for us as a community and as the world to mourn."

While she says did not know Jackson personally, Cybill observes, "There is definitely a parallel between Elvis's death and Michael Jackson's death in the enormity of people's response to it. … That kind of fame is unsurvivable. I saw it up close. I saw the drugs with Elvis. He tried to get me some too, and you just can't survive that. It's just overwhelming."

The Golden Globe winner says that just like so many of us, she watched Michael's public memorial service.

"When Usher sang ["Gone Too Soon"], I was sobbing," she says, revealing her own personal tragedy: "I ... Читать дальше »