Michael Jackson Thriller girlfriend describes affair 'He saw me in Playboy and wanted me'
Thriller was released on December 2, 1983. The King of Pop fulfilled his dream to play a horror movie beast and with a half-million dollar budget created the most expensive video ever made with American Werewolf director John Landis. Every horror story needs a scream queen and Ola Ray revealed how the star picked her from the pages of Playboy and romanced her on set: “We had something special going on between us while we were shooting.”
Ray had been modelling for years and was 23 when she was chosen for the role of a lifetime.
She said: “I did a centrefold in Playboy and I believe that’s what Michael got the idea for using me. He saw my pictures in there.”
Ray played the sweet love interest of Jackson’s closet werewolf in the fake film which opens the pop video, before Jackson is later revealed to actually be a zombie.
Already a huge fan of the singer, Ray described her joy: “Can you imagine Michael Jackson dancing and singing around me while I did my little Thriller walk? I felt like I was the most luckiest girl in the world.”
