EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson’s Tragic Final Words Revealed Before Overdose Michael Jackson was desperate for money
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson’s Tragic Final Words Revealed — And How They Show He Was Trapped in a Catch-22 Loop of Addiction
Michael Jackson was desperate for money and pushing himself for a new concert residency in the days before his tragic death from a drug overdose.
Now RadarOnline.com can reveal the superstar singer’s last words before his death, and his eerie demand that may have led to it.
Jackson passed away on June 25, 2009, from a heart attack caused by a fatal combination of sedatives and the anesthetic propofol.
He was in the middle of grueling rehearsals for his This Is It concert residency, which was slated to take place at the O2 Arena in London between July 2009 and March 2010.
Jackson’s former friend and lawyer, John Mason, revealed in his new memoir, Crazy Lucky: Remarkable Stories from Inside the World of Celebrity Icons, that the King of Pop was flattening out after some bad investments and needed some cash.
He wrote: “In 2009, I was living in Reno when I got a call from someone who told me that Michael was in ‘really bad shape.’ He was trying to tour again, but he had collapsed onstage during rehearsals. Yet, he was back at it the next day. Michael was Michael.”
Money Issues
According to Mason, Jackson was nearly bankrupt when he agreed to the residency, and was about to lose his estate, Neverland Ranch.
The stress of the upcoming residency led tour promoter AEG Live to hire Dr. Conrad Murray to serve as Jackson’s physician. Dr. Murray reportedly began giving Jackson nightly infusions of propofol to help the singer sleep.
As Jackson continued having sleep problems, he demanded more and more drugs from the doctor, in what turned out to be a never-ending loop that would have fatal effects.
Mason revealed Jackson was obsessed with performing during the residency, and begged: “I can’t function if I don’t sleep. They’ll have to cancel it. And I don’t want them to cancel it.”
The singer’s words show how he was caught in a Catch-22 loop of addiction.
To sleep so he could perform, Jackson needed the massive doses of hospital tranquiliser propofol – which eventually killed him.
And he couldn’t perform without his sleep.
