MICHAEL JACKSON’s romance with MADONNA failed after she snubbed a starstruck child who approached the pop stars during a date.

The King of Pop befriended the singer in the early 1990s and they stepped out together a number of times, but Jackson told his close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach their relationship became tense after Madonna once rudely ignored a young fan.

Jackson told Boteach in a taped conversation, “Madonna laid the law down to me before we went out, (saying) ‘I am not going to Disneyland, OK? That’s out.’ I said, ‘I didn’t ask to go to Disneyland.’ She said, ‘We are going to the restaurant. And afterwards, we are going to a strip bar.’

“I said, ‘I am not going to a strip bar, where they cross dress. Guys who are girls… I am not going there. If that’s how it is, forget this whole thing.’ Afterwards, she wrote some mean things about me in the press. And I wrote that she is a nasty witch, after I was so kind to her…

“We were at the table eating, and some little (kid) came up, (saying) ‘Oh my god, Michael Jackson and Madonna!’ She goes, ‘Get out of here. Leave us alone.’ I said, ‘Don’t you ever talk to children like this.’ She said, ‘Shut up.’ I said, ‘You shut up.’ Yes, that’s what I said. Then we went out again and went to the Academy Awards and she is not a nice person.”