He didn’t “turn himself white” he had Vitiligo (confirmed in his autopsy) and used makeup to even out his skin tone.
He also suffered lifelong pain from his Pepsi commercial burns which led to his pain killer addiction.
No excuses for the plastic surgery on his nose and the cleft put in his chin. That was all him.
Fun fact- the ONLY member of the jackson family not to get their nose done is Jackie. Everybody else, including Rebbie, got nose jobs