TV Article VH1's 'Behind the Music': Ne-Yo on Michael Jackson By Tanner Stransky Tanner Stransky Tanner Stransky is a former staff editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2013. EW's editorial guidelines Published on September 20, 2012 12:00PM EDT Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images Ne-Yo has made no secret of the fact that he had been collaborating with Michael Jackson when he died in 2009. But in the newest episode of VH1’s Behind the Music — which premieres Sunday, Sept. 23, at 9 p.m. — he delves deeper into how they met and the work they produced. EW has an exclusive clip of that recollection. In the clip — which you can find below — Ne-Yo recalls that in the spring of 2009, Jackson reached out to him but he hung up the phone, thinking it was a prank call. “I figured it was somebody playin’,” he remembers. After Jackson called back, he remembers, “we met up in New York, then he smiles and gave me a big hug, and says, ‘You know what my favorite song of yours is? [singing] Please don’t worry about me, I’m fine,'” Ne-Yo says in the clip. “He started singing my damn song [‘Go On, Girl].’ I almost lost it at that point. I maintained, but inside, I was jumping around like a six-year-old girl. It was bad. It was really, really bad.” Watch the full clip from Sunday’s episode of Behind the Music here: Tanner on Twitter: @EWTanStransky Read more: Train on VH1’s ‘Behind the Music’: The story behind hit ‘Drops of Jupiter’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Adam Lambert on VH1′s ‘Behind the Music’: His struggle with his sexuality — EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW VIDEO Enrique Iglesias on VH1′s ‘Behind the Music’: His meteoric rise to fame — EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW VIDEO