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- This is it, and
see you in July.
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[dramatic music]
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[quiet, somber music]
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- [Narrator] Michael Jackson
is the undisputed king of pop.
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A lifetime of innovation
and reinvention
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set him apart from the crowd
as one of the greatest artists
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and performers who ever lived.
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But on June 25th,
2009 at the age of 50
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Michael Jackson would be dead.
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- [Dispatch] Fire paramedic 33,
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what is the address
of your emergency?
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- [Caller] Yes sir,
I need an ambulance
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as soon as possible, sir.
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- [Dispatch] OK sir,
what's your address?
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- [Caller] It's 100
North Carolwood Drive,
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Los Angeles California, 90077.
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- [Dispatch] You said Carolwood?
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- [Caller] Carolwood Drive, yes.
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- [Narrator] At the
time of his death,
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Michael Jackson was
on a toxic combination
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or prescription drugs, enough
to send anyone crashing down.
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But how did the most
famous man on the world
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descend into what that judge
called medicine madness?
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- What's fascinating
and tragic about the way
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that Michael Jackson
died was the sheer volume
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of prescription medication
that Conrad Murray
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was administering to
him was beyond belief.
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On the day he died, Jackson
had been on propofol,
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which is an anesthetic, which
should only be administered
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by anesthetists, for
60 consecutive days.
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- [Narrator] 3:00
a.m. June 25th, 2009.
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Shockingly Michael
Jackson is still awake
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even after receiving
dose after dose
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of dangerously strong drugs.
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10:20 a.m., with Jackson still
awake and in visible agony
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Dr. Conrad Murray makes
a final, fatal decision.
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- He'd taken quite a severe
battering from the press
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and also through the
trial and I just think
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it just got to
him, it really did.
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It just broke his
heart, it killed him.
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- [Narrator] How did it happen?
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What went wrong,
and how did a man
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gearing up for 50 sold-out
concerts suddenly die?
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Join us as we investigate
the last 24 hours
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of Michael Jackson.
[dramatic music]
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- Whatever you think
of Michael Jackson,
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one thing you have to concede
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is that he was an
extraordinary performer.
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One of the greatest performers
not just of his generation
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but of any generation.
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[electronic pop music]
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- [Narrator] Michael
Jackson has spent
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almost his entire
life center stage.
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At just five years old, he was
changing the music industry
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with his brothers as the lead
singer in the Jackson Five.
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Jump-starting a solo career
where he delivered hit
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after momentous hit from
Motown to disco to pop,
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Michael Jackson was unstoppable.
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- Beyond Michael
Jackson's talent
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what made him kind of go beyond
the group was his ambition.
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You know, he was a
student of the craft
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and so when he wasn't performing
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he was to the side of
the stage in the Apollo,
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in the Regal and he was
watching people like James Brown
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and people like Smokey
Robinson and Jackie Wilson
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and he was watching and
learning, picking things up.
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And so he was such a
student of his craft
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that when it was time for
him to branch out on his own
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he had a lot of ideas.
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- I think deep down
everybody was waiting
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for Michael to go solo, but
obviously not saying it.
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So when we actually saw
that he was solo by himself
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singing this infectious song
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that you just
couldn't stop singing
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we were just like, you
know, thank goodness.
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Finally, he's on his
own, it was like that.
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It was a real, you know, to
go straight to number one
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with your first solo record
after being in a band
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called the Jackson Five
and doing that on your own
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that's pretty impressive.
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- I think what Michael learned
very early on in his life
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was that music and the
stage was the place
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where he felt most at home,
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and that's where he
would escape into.
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And you know, when
he was in the studio
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with Berry Gordy and they
were going over a song
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over and over and over,
you know, it was hard work,
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but he liked it, he
enjoyed the craft.
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He enjoyed making
music, he loved music.
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He learned very early on
how to perform, you know,
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and how to put on that mask.
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Even as a child, once you
hit that stage, you perform
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and you become a character.
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But behind that,
there's no question
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that he was struggling
with a lot of things
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and struggling to make
sense of who he was
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and how to reconcile
his strange life.
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- [Narrator] But a
key event in 1984
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would impact the course
of Jackson's life forever.
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[slow, somber music]
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January 27th, 1984, Michael
Jackson was starring
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in a Pepsi commercial.
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The plan was for Jackson
to descend a staircase
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and execute his
iconic dance moves,
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but things took a
turn for the worse.
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When the cameras began to roll,
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Jackson took his
position as rehearsed,
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but the pyrotechnics
were ignited too early
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and struck Jackson, causing
his hair and face to burn.
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The burns caused
by the pyrotechnics
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scarred Jackson for life.
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The damage to his scalp
and face left Jackson
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with no choice but to
pursue plastic surgery.
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A treatment he would become
addicted to throughout his life.
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- It was a huge
change for everyone.
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We couldn't believe his
image had changed that much.
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- [Narrator] Michael
Jackson had struggled
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his whole life with
his appearance.
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As a young child, he was
abused by his father,
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bullied by his older brothers,
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and lived under
constant media scrutiny.
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- The very least you can
say about Michael Jackson,
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'cause it's well
documented, he struggled
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with his own identity,
his own sexual identity.
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He was bullied as a child
by his father, his brothers.
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His brothers called
him big nose.
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And obviously later in
life he bleached his skin.
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He became obsessed
with bleaching his skin
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and plastic surgery
and this is a man
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whose identity is
fundamentally conflicted.
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He doesn't know who he
is, who he wants to be,
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who he ought to be, who
he's trying to please
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and he's looking for
his place in the world.
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And when you stand up
on a stage as grand
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as the one that Michael
Jackson spent his entire life
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standing on, it's very
difficult to get the advice
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and the support that
you actually need.
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And there's no question
he struggled with that.
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And the way his body was
decimated at the end of his life
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both by actions he himself took.
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The plastic surgery, the
bleaching of the skin
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together with the internal
decimation of his body
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through the use of
prescription drugs
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and the abuse of those
drugs, there's no doubt
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that Michael Jackson's
life was a fractured,
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fragmented life and that the
real story of Michael Jackson
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is really a struggle
to find out who he was.
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And to be more than that,
to at least come close
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to accepting who he was,
which clearly he didn't.
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And when you are that conflicted
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you are in a high degree of
emotional pain or distress.
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Call it what you will, but
it doesn't make life easy
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and when you put your head
on the pillow at night
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it doesn't make
it easy to sleep,
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and certainly doesn't make
it easy to sleep restfully.
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- Michael Jackson's
past is a difficult one,
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is a complex one and you know,
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he's the kind of
quintessential child star
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who's kind of pushed
into the business,
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into show business
at a very early age.
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His relationship with
his father was difficult.
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His father was abusive, both
emotionally and physically
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and that was hard for Michael.
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People respond to that
kind of abuse differently
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and with some of
the other brothers
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I think that it
didn't impact them
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the same way psychologically
that it did Michael.
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It really hurt him,
and he carried it
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throughout the rest
of his life, you know,
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that his father drove
him and pushed him
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but never treated
him like a son.
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In fact, they called him Joseph.
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They didn't call him
dad or daddy or father.
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His name was Joseph, and
so it kind of represented
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that emotional detachment.
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- I think what the
public doesn't know
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is that he forgave his father
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for some of the
hurt that was caused
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and at the end of his life
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he was very much on good
terms with his father.
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So I think that a lot of the
things that, they happened
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a long time ago, and you
know, Michael forgave.
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[somber piano music]
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- When Michael
released Dangerous,
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it was like he'd gone
through a new change again
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because now his face
had changed way more
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and he'd become even
more lighter than before.
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And everybody was
starting to question, OK,
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what's going on
with the skin color?
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Do you know, this is really odd.
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I personally believed
that no one quite knew
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if he was actually
trying to be white,
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but they all assumed he was
trying to make himself white.
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And I think it angered
a lot of people
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because people felt he was
such a good looking guy
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and gorgeous a lot of
us were like, upset
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that he was changing his face.
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We're like, don't change
your face Michael.
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We love you the way you are.
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But he'd already
changed it by Dangerous
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and it was like, so
that was the controversy
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that was going on.
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People weren't quite sure
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if he was trying to
make himself white or,
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we could see his
nose had changed
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and things were looking
a little bit different.
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So everyone was a little
bit, it was a weird time.
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- He definitely had vitiligo.
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Which you know, the
interesting thing about that
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is that a lot of people
didn't believe him.
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Or for a long
period of his career
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people didn't even know
that he had vitiligo.
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I think the first time that
he mentioned it publicly
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was to Oprah Winfrey,
which was 1993.
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So when his skin
began lightening
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people didn't know
what to make of it.
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And then finally he told
people that he had vitiligo
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and people didn't believe him.
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And you know, it took
really until he died
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and the autopsy report
actually indicated
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that he had vitiligo.
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But again, imagine
being somebody
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that grows up in
front of the world
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and you have this pretty
unusual skin condition
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and people are
saying things like,
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you are ashamed of
your race, you know?
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And, you don't want to be black.
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You're trying to be white.
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So there were things
that were his choice.
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I mean, the plastic surgeries
were certainly his choice,
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but there were things
that weren't his choice
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and the skin disorder
was not his choice
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and it was something
that he had to deal with
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in front of the world.
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- Personally I actually felt
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confused about why he
would want to be white.
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I didn't get that, but I think
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the problem with that
episode in his life,
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I don't think they were vocal
enough about his vitiligo.
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And that's sad, 'cause they
should have been, 'cause then
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people wouldn't
have been jumping to
conclusions and stuff,
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and I do think that in
a way Michael probably,
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I think he probably didn't
want people to know.
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- Michael Jackson
from a very young age
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had the world's eyes
on him at all times.
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And unfortunately when
he was really young
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he suffered a lot of
abuse from his father.
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His father called him big nose.
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When he started to
transition into adolescence
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he remembered fans
seeing him with acne
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and just being horrified
that he wasn't this child,
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you know, this
child star anymore
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and that was very
traumatic for Michael.
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That, you know,
his whole identity
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was wrapped into
being a performer
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and having people love
him, his audience.
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So when his physical
appearance started to change
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it was very difficult
for him to understand
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how to deal with that,
and he talks about
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how he used to just go
into a closet and cry.
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It was very, he didn't even
want to look at himself
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in the mirror and he didn't
want to go out into public
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other than when he
went onto stage.
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And so all of those
experiences when he was young
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contributed to
this kind of desire
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to change his
physical appearance.
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And he was also an artist
and he kind of just began
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to treat his face
as a work of art.
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And he wanted to, he had
this kind of various ideals
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of perfection that he was
trying to achieve physically.
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And so he, you know, one
plastic surgery after another
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and his physical appearance
just changed over and over again
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and people didn't know
what to make of it.
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But I think there are a
lot of complex reasons
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for why he did them.
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[slow dramatic music]
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- And so at that time it
was incredibly confusing
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for people who'd watched him.
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You know, everyone loved him
and knew what he looked like
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and it was confusing
for us to see
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that he had changed his color.
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And it's only later on,
obviously, way down the road.
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Well, 15 years later you
find out that he had vitiligo
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which is a serious
skin condition
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where you completely
lose pigment.
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And I feel that
because it was the 80s
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stars were all
about mystery then.
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And people, you know,
especially in the industry
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didn't want artists,
it's not like now,
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where you know everything
about an artist.
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It was like, you didn't
get married back then.
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The artist was supposed
to be an enigma
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and I don't feel
that they thought
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it was the right thing
to tell the public
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what was really
going on with Michael
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because they didn't want
it to affect, I think,
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his image and everything else.
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I really believe that,
because you know,
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when you hear what he says
in interviews later on,
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you know, he didn't
want people to know
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about all the vitiligo.
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I just think it was
traumatic in itself
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that he was going
through that himself.
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I wasn't there, but I just feel
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that when you see later
interviews with him with Oprah
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and he opens up and
he talks about it
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you see that he's
traumatized by the fact
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that he wasn't able
to tell people before.
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Now he's telling everyone.
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Everyone's looking at him like
he's not telling the truth
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and that's really a shame,
because now you look back,
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you realize this
guy, he wasn't well.
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He had some serious illnesses,
you know, the vitiligo.
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He had the burns
from the Pepsi ad
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and so he had a lot
of plastic surgery
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to reform parts of his
head and stuff like that.
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I mean, there was a lot
of stuff that was hidden.
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- When I first met Michael
he had control in his life.
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And I think the control started
slipping away 2003 onwards
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when he sank deeper into despair
over the false accusations.
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And I think that there
were a lot of doctors
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that just barged their
way into his life
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and just people, he just had
so many people around him.
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And a lot of them, I
didn't really understand
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what they were
doing in his life.
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And I think that
they influenced him
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and it's like they took control.
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- [Narrator] But something
much more sinister
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began on that day
in January 1984.
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Something that would lead to
his early death 24 years later.
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[slow, ominous music]
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- When he burnt his hair
at the Pepsi commercial
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he started using
painkillers then.
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He then fell from a
stage and broke his leg.
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He also cracked a
vertebrate in his back
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and those things have
caused him terrible pain.
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[slow instrumental music]
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- I never saw Michael
take even an Asprin
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when he was with me.
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I was absolutely
horrified when I found out
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and the circumstances
of his death,
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which became clear in the news.
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He, when I was with him and
our families were together
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he was always bright, alert,
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and there was never any question
of him being on anything.
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- I think that Michael
made certain choices
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to cope with his reality
and some of those choices
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led to kind of an insulated
existence by necessity.
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You know, when he
creates Neverland
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it's a way for him
to cope, right?
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To kind of block
out the real world.
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Or when he's taking
pain medication
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it's a way to kind of
block out all the things
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that are difficult,
you know, all the pain
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that he's struggling with
and just all the pressures
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that he's dealing
with, but unfortunately
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there are repercussions to that.
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You know, when you
seclude yourself,
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when you isolate yourself
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or when you make
some of these choices
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there's kind of an inevitability
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in terms of further isolating
yourself from maybe people
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that could help you
or that could at least
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that you can have a more healthy
kind of relationship with.
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I think prescription drug abuse
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is common in celebrity world.
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I think it's very
easy to get caught up
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in being a celebrity.
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And you try and get
your body to work
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for what your heart desires
and what your mind wants.
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On a small scale I find that,
even I am not a celebrity,
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but even trying to live up
to the demand of going to bed
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when you've gotta go
to bed and wake up
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when you gotta wake up,
look like you've gotta look
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and do what you've
gotta do is a toll.
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Imagine those who are
in front of the camera,
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big celebrities, I think
if I'm fair on them
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I think it's sad, but
I think it's a price
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that they have to
pay unfortunately
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if they want to
go down in history
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as people that
were really icons.
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And I think the bigger the
celebrity the bigger the price.
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- The first time that
it was actually brought
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to my attention
was in March 2009
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when I was at the
Lanesborough Hotel
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and he requested that I
get hold of some medication
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through my family contacts,
'cause I've got six members
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of my family in
the medical field.
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And when I went into
his bathroom then,
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that's when I was aware.
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[soft, slow piano music]
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I saw lots and
lots of pill boxes
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and various different
medication in there.
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There was Demerol,
there was Paxil, Zoloft,
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and that made alarm
bells ring in my head.
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I assumed that if it's
his suite and his bathroom
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that they'd be his.
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I didn't see any name on them,
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but I assumed that they were his
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and in light of what's happened
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I'd safely conclude
that they were his.
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I never, ever, ever
saw him take anything
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and if I had I would have put
a stop to that straight away,
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but I never did.
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I was absolutely shocked,
and when I saw these things
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in the bathroom I
wasn't thinking, oh,
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you know, he's a drug addict
or anything like that.
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I was thinking, maybe he's
sick and I wanted to know
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and I kept on asking
him, "What's happening?"
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And he was like, "No,
everything's routine,
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"you know, it's all OK."
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And that's when I decided
to take a few samples.
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I didn't take the whole lot.
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I took a few samples
of the medication
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and I took them home
so that I'd have time
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to think carefully and find
out what they were and see.
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And that's what I
did, and I found out
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that they were painkillers
and antidepressants.
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- It's sad that we wanted
so much from the man
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that we kept saying
more, more, more
425
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rather than saying hey,
no more from you, rest up.
426
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Enjoy your life, enjoy
bringing up your children
427
00:23:09,008 --> 00:23:12,770
and you know, enjoying your
home rather than saying,
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what can Michael Jackson do?
429
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What can Michael Jackson?
430
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I think we drove him
to a lot of things.
431
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- [Narrator] At the
time of his death,
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Michael was taking an almost
unbelievable daily dose
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of prescription drugs including
Demerol, Zoloft, Ritalin,
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Prozac, Xanax, Dilaudid,
Vistaril, and Prilosec.
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- We'll never know
the real reasons
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why Michael Jackson
was taking the volume
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of prescription
medication that he was.
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I mean, he would have said
to his friends, his family,
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his doctors, yeah, I
need this medication.
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I want it, I want it,
I need it, I want it
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because he was an addict and
that's what an addict does.
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They'll do anything to
get their drug of choice.
443
00:23:52,879 --> 00:23:57,159
But as for the doctors,
or on the people
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who were close to
Michael Jackson,
allowing that to happen?
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Who knows, who knows why
they were prescribing that.
446
00:24:03,062 --> 00:24:06,099
It certainly wasn't for
Michael Jackson's wellbeing.
447
00:24:06,134 --> 00:24:09,655
Michael Jackson needed
to get off those drugs,
448
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not to take more of them.
449
00:24:10,966 --> 00:24:12,623
He needed to take fewer opioids.
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00:24:12,658 --> 00:24:14,487
He needed to take
fewer benzodiazepines.
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He certainly needed
less propofol.
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But we'll never know what
was going through the minds
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of those people allegedly caring
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and treating Michael Jackson.
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One can only assume that
like with so many people
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that have come before him
and so many people afterwards
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that the richer and more
famous and celebrated you are
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the more at risk you are
of not getting the advice
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and support that you need
'cause people will give you
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and tell you what
you want to hear
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rather than what
you need to hear.
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00:24:47,382 --> 00:24:49,039
And that's the tragedy
of Michael Jackson
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and many others like him.
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- [Narrator] This
cocktail of drugs
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was placing an enormous strain
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on Jackson's already
exhausted body.
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But while the prescription
drugs may have become habit,
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mounting pressures outside
of the singer's control
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were beginning to
take their toll.
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- Please keep an open mind and
let me have my day in court.
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I deserve a fair trial like
every other American citizen.
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I will be acquitted
and vindicated when
the truth is told.
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[soft music]
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- [Narrator] Although
Michael Jackson was cleared
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of all child sex
abuse allegations,
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the years of public humiliation
477
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at the hands of
the hounding press
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left his reputation
in complete ruin.
479
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- The 1993 alligations was
extremely traumatic for Michael.
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He was on tour at the time.
481
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This is when he developed
an addiction to painkillers.
482
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It was, he, in his
own words described it
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as a humiliating experience.
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They did a strip search on
him, took photographs of him.
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They had like 70 police
officers go through his property
486
00:26:04,424 --> 00:26:06,530
and what made him angry about it
487
00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:10,396
is that they never found
anything that would indicate
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that he was in fact guilty.
489
00:26:13,226 --> 00:26:15,677
- Oh, it took a lot out of him.
490
00:26:15,712 --> 00:26:19,163
I mean, yeah, he
didn't eat very well.
491
00:26:20,544 --> 00:26:21,718
I mean, can you
imagine the pressure
492
00:26:21,752 --> 00:26:22,960
he must have been under?
493
00:26:25,169 --> 00:26:26,619
And the pressure was
enormous for him.
494
00:26:26,654 --> 00:26:30,796
I mean, of course we
knew that he was innocent
495
00:26:30,830 --> 00:26:32,901
of all charges, but, you know,
496
00:26:32,936 --> 00:26:35,352
a lot of innocent men
have been found guilty
497
00:26:35,386 --> 00:26:38,631
and evidence can fall
one way or the other
498
00:26:38,666 --> 00:26:41,945
so the stress of three
months of going to court
499
00:26:41,979 --> 00:26:46,984
every single day, he looked
thin, he looked anemic almost.
500
00:26:48,192 --> 00:26:52,265
I mean, it was just,
I think that really
501
00:26:53,404 --> 00:26:57,063
was probably the worst
thing in his life
502
00:26:57,098 --> 00:27:00,998
as far as his health goes
and his mental state.
503
00:27:01,033 --> 00:27:03,725
Yeah, I mean, the trial
took a lot out of him.
504
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,142
I mean, you know, he didn't
eat, sleeping very badly.
505
00:27:07,177 --> 00:27:10,387
And really, that probably
took 10 years off him
506
00:27:10,421 --> 00:27:11,250
I should think.
507
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,805
- How everything started to
go wrong with Michael Jackson
508
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,773
was with the child
abuse allegations.
509
00:27:16,807 --> 00:27:19,948
And I think, when I first
heard it I remember thinking
510
00:27:19,983 --> 00:27:22,433
to myself, well where
did that come from?
511
00:27:22,468 --> 00:27:25,091
I mean, we all know
that he's like a kid.
512
00:27:25,126 --> 00:27:27,507
He's a kid himself,
so what's that about?
513
00:27:27,542 --> 00:27:30,338
So first of all,
there was confusion.
514
00:27:32,064 --> 00:27:34,135
You're thinking, is it
true, isn't it true?
515
00:27:34,169 --> 00:27:36,171
And this was always
the general consensus
516
00:27:36,206 --> 00:27:39,243
from people that you spoke
to was, I'm not sure.
517
00:27:39,278 --> 00:27:41,349
And you'd have some people
go, "I think he did."
518
00:27:41,383 --> 00:27:42,971
It's typical, it
was this witch hunt.
519
00:27:43,006 --> 00:27:46,803
It was a total witch
hunt by the media
520
00:27:46,837 --> 00:27:50,358
already sort of saying
that he was already guilty
521
00:27:50,392 --> 00:27:54,707
before he was even proven
innocent, you know?
522
00:27:54,742 --> 00:27:58,849
And I felt that
that's when things
523
00:27:58,884 --> 00:28:02,197
started to go down
for him in terms of,
524
00:28:02,232 --> 00:28:04,510
the public couldn't work out
what was true and what wasn't.
525
00:28:04,544 --> 00:28:07,030
That's what was bad, and
then when it was settled,
526
00:28:08,445 --> 00:28:12,863
an out of court settlement,
this was what was a big mistake.
527
00:28:22,597 --> 00:28:25,324
[peaceful music]
528
00:28:26,256 --> 00:28:27,844
- Fabrications.
529
00:28:27,878 --> 00:28:29,708
First of all, I say
the allegations.
530
00:28:30,743 --> 00:28:32,952
That was a very fabricated story
531
00:28:32,987 --> 00:28:36,369
that when it went to court,
found innocent on all charges.
532
00:28:37,957 --> 00:28:39,752
You know, not even
an alcohol drink.
533
00:28:42,168 --> 00:28:43,618
Also I'd like to say, you know,
534
00:28:43,652 --> 00:28:49,313
there's so many, to pin one,
I think would be unfair.
535
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,592
- Perhaps there's an ounce
of truth in what's written,
536
00:28:52,627 --> 00:28:55,595
but it's totally embellished
and taken out of context.
537
00:28:56,769 --> 00:28:59,116
And I really think
that people actually
538
00:28:59,151 --> 00:29:02,361
get some kind of kick
out of it, they love it.
539
00:29:02,395 --> 00:29:05,364
They don't want to print
the truth, you know?
540
00:29:05,398 --> 00:29:08,022
And so basically it means that
when people do come forward
541
00:29:08,056 --> 00:29:10,058
and tell the truth,
no one believes them.
542
00:29:11,508 --> 00:29:14,718
He'd taken quite a severe
battering from the press
543
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:17,203
and also through the trial
544
00:29:17,238 --> 00:29:19,343
and I just think
it just got to him.
545
00:29:19,378 --> 00:29:22,761
It really did, it just broke
his heart, it killed him.
546
00:29:24,521 --> 00:29:25,729
- [Narrator] Once revered
547
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,800
as the pinnacle of
musical achievement,
548
00:29:27,835 --> 00:29:30,596
Jackson sank into a
reclusive lifestyle.
549
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:35,359
For 12 years he kept a
low profile, hiding away
550
00:29:35,394 --> 00:29:38,466
and drowning in $400
million of debt.
551
00:29:39,674 --> 00:29:41,158
- You know, I think
that certain people
552
00:29:41,193 --> 00:29:43,920
around Michael Jackson
cared about him,
553
00:29:43,954 --> 00:29:46,923
tried at different parts
of his life to help him.
554
00:29:46,957 --> 00:29:50,098
Unfortunately when you
have that much power
555
00:29:50,133 --> 00:29:52,583
you can surround yourself with
the wrong types of people,
556
00:29:52,618 --> 00:29:55,794
the people that will just
say yes to everything
557
00:29:55,828 --> 00:29:58,348
and so some of the people,
including Lisa Marie Presley
558
00:29:58,382 --> 00:30:01,213
who did really try
to help Michael
559
00:30:01,247 --> 00:30:04,492
and kind of had a more
balanced relationship with him
560
00:30:04,526 --> 00:30:06,045
weren't there in
the end, you know,
561
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,702
and didn't have a
place in his life.
562
00:30:07,736 --> 00:30:09,428
And so there weren't
a lot of people.
563
00:30:09,462 --> 00:30:13,673
I know that his family tried
to help him in certain ways
564
00:30:13,708 --> 00:30:17,643
when they could reach
him, but it was hard
565
00:30:17,677 --> 00:30:20,335
in those final years for people
566
00:30:20,370 --> 00:30:23,028
to kind of get into
that inner circle
567
00:30:23,062 --> 00:30:24,892
and really see
what was happening.
568
00:30:26,341 --> 00:30:30,725
- He was very hurt by the
misreportings in the press,
569
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:35,109
but I think his defense
mechanism was actually,
570
00:30:35,143 --> 00:30:38,043
was not to read them,
don't listen, you know.
571
00:30:38,077 --> 00:30:39,803
They can say, they're gonna say
572
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:41,322
whatever they're
gonna say anyway
573
00:30:41,356 --> 00:30:43,186
so just don't read, don't
get involved with that.
574
00:30:43,220 --> 00:30:44,394
'Cause I said to
him one day, I said,
575
00:30:44,428 --> 00:30:46,189
"Why don't you just sue them?"
576
00:30:46,223 --> 00:30:49,054
And he said, "Mark, if
I was to sue everyone
577
00:30:49,088 --> 00:30:50,918
"that wrote something
about me that was untrue
578
00:30:50,952 --> 00:30:53,023
"I'd be in court
every single day."
579
00:30:53,058 --> 00:30:54,956
So it just wasn't
worth it for him
580
00:30:54,991 --> 00:30:56,889
so he just decided to let it go.
581
00:30:56,924 --> 00:30:59,858
- To a certain extent,
in terms of naive,
582
00:30:59,892 --> 00:31:03,827
I think because he has
lived a lot of his life
583
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,795
in the public eye
with all the adulation
584
00:31:06,830 --> 00:31:09,971
and all of the fans I
think to a certain extent
585
00:31:10,006 --> 00:31:13,112
perhaps he hadn't experienced
some of the things
586
00:31:13,147 --> 00:31:15,459
that we've experienced
in everyday life.
587
00:31:15,494 --> 00:31:18,393
So for those reasons
perhaps a little bit naive.
588
00:31:19,774 --> 00:31:22,708
And I think that he always
wanted to see the best in people
589
00:31:23,916 --> 00:31:25,849
and I think towards
the end he realized
590
00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:28,576
that there are some very
bad people out there
591
00:31:28,610 --> 00:31:33,615
who don't wish you well at
all and in terms of lonely
592
00:31:35,134 --> 00:31:39,483
I would say Michael was lonely.
593
00:31:39,518 --> 00:31:42,659
It's not that he didn't
have people around him.
594
00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:45,420
He had fairly few people
that really understood him
595
00:31:46,628 --> 00:31:48,423
and understood what
he'd been through,
596
00:31:49,528 --> 00:31:50,909
and the kind of life he had.
597
00:31:50,943 --> 00:31:52,703
In fact, there aren't
very many people
598
00:31:52,738 --> 00:31:55,396
that have been through what
Michael's been through.
599
00:31:55,430 --> 00:32:00,159
And from that point of view I
would say he was very lonely.
600
00:32:00,194 --> 00:32:03,438
[peaceful piano music]
601
00:32:12,378 --> 00:32:14,173
- [Narrator] In what
many consider an attempt
602
00:32:14,208 --> 00:32:16,589
to offset his debt,
Jackson made a deal
603
00:32:16,624 --> 00:32:20,662
with AEG Live to perform
a series of 50 concerts
604
00:32:20,697 --> 00:32:24,149
in a final curtain call
at the London O2 Arena.
605
00:32:25,253 --> 00:32:29,499
[dramatic music]
March 5th, 2009.
606
00:32:29,533 --> 00:32:33,710
Michael Jackson announces
to the world, This Is It.
607
00:32:37,196 --> 00:32:39,233
- This is it, I mean
this is really it.
608
00:32:39,267 --> 00:32:43,651
This is the final, this is
the final curtain call, OK?
609
00:32:45,618 --> 00:32:48,621
And I'll see you in July.
610
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,591
[audience screaming]
611
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:00,806
I love you.
[audience cheering]
612
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,532
I really do, you
have to know that.
613
00:33:02,566 --> 00:33:06,605
I love you so much, really,
from the bottom of my heart.
614
00:33:09,125 --> 00:33:11,990
This is it, and see you in July.
615
00:33:12,024 --> 00:33:14,993
[audience cheering]
616
00:33:16,339 --> 00:33:17,961
- After Michael
announced the concerts
617
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:20,722
he stayed in London
and my family came up
618
00:33:20,757 --> 00:33:23,242
and we spent the
weekend with Michael
619
00:33:23,277 --> 00:33:25,313
before he flew
back to the states.
620
00:33:25,348 --> 00:33:27,281
He was in a really
good, positive mood.
621
00:33:27,315 --> 00:33:30,732
I mean, he was in such a
positive frame of mind.
622
00:33:30,767 --> 00:33:34,012
Best I'd seen him
for a long time
623
00:33:34,046 --> 00:33:37,394
and it was so reassuring
and we had big plans
624
00:33:37,429 --> 00:33:38,671
and he was gonna come to London.
625
00:33:38,706 --> 00:33:41,053
And you know, it was
over the school holidays
626
00:33:41,088 --> 00:33:42,848
and the kids were all
gonna get together
627
00:33:42,882 --> 00:33:45,437
and we have loads of free time
628
00:33:45,471 --> 00:33:49,510
and things we were gonna do
and all these plans we had.
629
00:33:49,544 --> 00:33:51,443
He was just so positive.
630
00:33:51,477 --> 00:33:54,687
- I think he's
extremely in control.
631
00:33:56,068 --> 00:33:59,589
Whether if that was Michael's
magic or his madness,
632
00:34:01,073 --> 00:34:03,041
like they say, I think he
was very much in control.
633
00:34:04,421 --> 00:34:07,528
And in one hand it's what
brought out his genius
634
00:34:07,562 --> 00:34:09,012
and in the other
hand it's probably
635
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:13,396
what brought out sometimes
these traps that he fell into
636
00:34:14,776 --> 00:34:17,710
by not having this management
that he would listen to.
637
00:34:17,745 --> 00:34:19,643
And I think, you know,
that there was times
638
00:34:19,678 --> 00:34:22,163
when Michael was
very much in control.
639
00:34:22,198 --> 00:34:25,546
- Michael didn't sign
up to do 50 concerts.
640
00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:29,619
He said that to me, that he
only thought he was doing 10.
641
00:34:29,653 --> 00:34:32,277
And he wasn't very
happy about the fact
642
00:34:32,311 --> 00:34:35,314
that it was gonna be
50 concerts, and I
don't think he knew
643
00:34:35,349 --> 00:34:37,247
how he was gonna be
able to manage it.
644
00:34:38,421 --> 00:34:39,284
- [Narrator] But the
concert rehearsals
645
00:34:39,318 --> 00:34:40,699
were not going to plan.
646
00:34:41,838 --> 00:34:43,598
Director Kenny Ortega noted
647
00:34:43,633 --> 00:34:45,876
that Jackson often
didn't show up
648
00:34:45,911 --> 00:34:49,466
and when he did he was
late, weak, and fatigued.
649
00:34:52,469 --> 00:34:57,474
- Michael had problems and
he felt a lot of pressure.
650
00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:01,996
At this time his
finances were in disarray
651
00:35:03,170 --> 00:35:05,896
and this was his
last shot, you know.
652
00:35:07,035 --> 00:35:09,003
The This Is It tour,
you know, it really was,
653
00:35:09,037 --> 00:35:11,799
he was feeling an enormous
amount of pressure
654
00:35:11,833 --> 00:35:16,355
and he felt desperate
to be able to sleep.
655
00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:18,944
Just to be able to
get on that stage
656
00:35:18,978 --> 00:35:21,291
and feel like he could do it.
657
00:35:21,326 --> 00:35:23,707
And so there was an
enormous amount of pressure
658
00:35:23,742 --> 00:35:25,468
and there was a lot
of money involved
659
00:35:25,502 --> 00:35:30,507
and you know, and certainly
Michael made choices, you know,
660
00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:33,821
but at the same time
there's this doctor
661
00:35:33,855 --> 00:35:35,754
that had an ethical
responsibility,
662
00:35:35,788 --> 00:35:38,274
even when he's giving him
this propofol to monitor him,
663
00:35:38,308 --> 00:35:41,104
to not leave the room, you
know, to have just basic
664
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:43,624
kinds of things that
you would expect
665
00:35:44,625 --> 00:35:46,247
and those things weren't there.
666
00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:48,318
Michael didn't want to die.
667
00:35:48,353 --> 00:35:52,564
I mean, he had three
kids and certainly
668
00:35:54,013 --> 00:35:58,328
he made choices, but it's
tragic, it's a tragedy.
669
00:36:01,366 --> 00:36:04,058
- [Narrator] June 22nd, 2009.
670
00:36:04,092 --> 00:36:07,406
As the first of 50 nights
of performing gets closer
671
00:36:07,441 --> 00:36:10,202
Michael Jackson is
battling immense pressure.
672
00:36:10,237 --> 00:36:12,480
His body is
struggling after years
673
00:36:12,515 --> 00:36:15,621
of prescription drug
addiction and medical surgery.
674
00:36:15,656 --> 00:36:19,177
But the world expects to see
Jackson as they remember him.
675
00:36:19,211 --> 00:36:20,281
The king of pop.
676
00:36:24,906 --> 00:36:26,529
In his Beverly Hills mansion,
677
00:36:26,563 --> 00:36:28,945
Jackson is unable
to fall asleep.
678
00:36:30,118 --> 00:36:32,638
At his bedside,
Dr. Conrad Murray.
679
00:36:34,019 --> 00:36:36,780
Dr. Murray knew that the
propofol he was administering
680
00:36:36,815 --> 00:36:39,714
to Jackson was
incredibly dangerous
681
00:36:39,749 --> 00:36:42,407
and had attempted to reduce
his dependency on the drug
682
00:36:42,441 --> 00:36:45,513
by giving him a lower
25 milligram dosage.
683
00:36:46,583 --> 00:36:49,655
After taking the
antianxiety drug Ativan
684
00:36:49,690 --> 00:36:53,487
and the sedative Versed
Jackson finally falls asleep.
685
00:36:57,836 --> 00:37:02,772
June 23rd, Dr. Murray again
administers Ativan and Versed
686
00:37:03,497 --> 00:37:04,222
to help Jackson sleep.
687
00:37:05,982 --> 00:37:09,744
10:00 p.m. June 24th,
at the Staples Center
688
00:37:09,779 --> 00:37:11,746
in downtown Los Angeles,
689
00:37:11,781 --> 00:37:14,956
Jackson arrives three
hours late for rehearsal.
690
00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:18,891
The show was already
running behind schedule,
691
00:37:18,926 --> 00:37:21,687
but that evening
according to eyewitnesses,
692
00:37:21,722 --> 00:37:24,725
Michael Jackson gave an
incredible performance
693
00:37:24,759 --> 00:37:27,106
and it seemed as
though the king of pop
694
00:37:27,141 --> 00:37:29,247
was finally getting
back on form.
695
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,219
- Michael's dancing and
he's totally focused.
696
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:39,740
He knows exactly what he's
doing and he's doing great.
697
00:37:39,774 --> 00:37:44,469
And you know, I just believe
he was in the wrong hands.
698
00:37:45,642 --> 00:37:47,437
I disagree with
everyone who says
699
00:37:47,472 --> 00:37:50,095
that he wasn't gonna be up
with the shows and up to it.
700
00:37:50,129 --> 00:37:52,304
He's a perfectionist,
he would have been fine,
701
00:37:52,339 --> 00:37:54,513
but he needed to
be taken care of.
702
00:37:55,997 --> 00:38:00,139
He's an artist, they have to
have special care, you know,
703
00:38:00,174 --> 00:38:02,176
and I don't think he had it.
704
00:38:02,210 --> 00:38:05,248
- The movie came about
using the rehearsals
705
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,906
and using the production
and the direction
706
00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:10,115
and the input that Michael had
707
00:38:10,149 --> 00:38:12,220
and they wanted to
show people, look,
708
00:38:12,255 --> 00:38:14,533
this man was
definitely up for it.
709
00:38:14,568 --> 00:38:18,882
Focused energy, he was
up for what was ahead.
710
00:38:18,917 --> 00:38:20,781
He was looking forward to it
711
00:38:20,815 --> 00:38:23,646
and I think the movie
was a very good move
712
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,547
by AEG to say, look, the
man put so much into this.
713
00:38:28,582 --> 00:38:31,412
He would want the world
to see what he was doing,
714
00:38:31,447 --> 00:38:34,553
what he can do, and I think it
was a good move for the fans
715
00:38:34,588 --> 00:38:36,314
and it was a good
move for Michael.
716
00:38:39,593 --> 00:38:42,389
- An extraordinary thing,
especially to those
717
00:38:42,423 --> 00:38:47,394
who don't understand how you
can develop tolerance to drugs
718
00:38:47,428 --> 00:38:51,087
is that on June the 24th,
a day before his death
719
00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:53,779
Michael Jackson
during rehearsal gave,
720
00:38:53,814 --> 00:38:55,712
by all eyewitness accounts,
721
00:38:55,747 --> 00:38:58,957
an absolutely
extraordinary performance.
722
00:39:00,061 --> 00:39:02,098
So despite the
fact that that time
723
00:39:02,132 --> 00:39:05,377
he'd been on Propofol
for 60 consecutive days,
724
00:39:05,412 --> 00:39:07,862
that he had this vast cocktail
of drugs inside his body
725
00:39:07,897 --> 00:39:11,487
he was still able to perform,
and not just to perform well,
726
00:39:11,521 --> 00:39:15,283
but to perform to a level
that many other artists,
727
00:39:15,318 --> 00:39:18,079
most other artists
could only dream of.
728
00:39:19,253 --> 00:39:21,462
Whatever you think
of Michael Jackson,
729
00:39:21,497 --> 00:39:23,775
one thing you have to concede
730
00:39:23,809 --> 00:39:26,985
is that he was an
extraordinary performer,
731
00:39:27,019 --> 00:39:30,298
one of the greatest performers,
not just of his generation,
732
00:39:30,333 --> 00:39:34,372
but of any generation and
his final performance,
733
00:39:34,406 --> 00:39:36,891
the performance on
the eve of his death
734
00:39:36,926 --> 00:39:39,307
bears witness to
that perhaps more
735
00:39:39,342 --> 00:39:41,379
than any other
performance he ever gave.
736
00:39:44,554 --> 00:39:48,731
[somber atmospheric
choral music]
737
00:40:18,105 --> 00:40:21,177
- [Narrator] 1:00
a.m. June 25th, 2009.
738
00:40:22,523 --> 00:40:24,905
At Michael Jackson's
Los Angeles home
739
00:40:24,939 --> 00:40:27,977
Dr. Conrad Murray sat
by the star's bedside
740
00:40:28,011 --> 00:40:31,152
as Jackson lies awake
in bed unable to sleep.
741
00:40:33,741 --> 00:40:37,020
Jackson begs Dr. Murray
for a dose of Propofol
742
00:40:37,055 --> 00:40:41,680
to send him to sleep and at
first the doctor resists.
743
00:40:43,164 --> 00:40:46,167
After 60 consecutive nights
of administering the drug,
744
00:40:46,202 --> 00:40:48,618
Murray tries to
stand his ground,
745
00:40:48,653 --> 00:40:51,138
but Jackson continues to beg,
746
00:40:51,172 --> 00:40:53,451
expressing his agony
and discomfort.
747
00:40:54,348 --> 00:40:56,661
Finally, Dr. Murray surrenders
748
00:40:56,695 --> 00:40:59,008
and administers
Jackson the propofol.
749
00:41:01,389 --> 00:41:05,497
1:30 a.m., despite having
been administered propofol,
750
00:41:05,532 --> 00:41:07,188
Jackson is still awake.
751
00:41:07,223 --> 00:41:09,881
His excessive use of this
highly dangerous drug
752
00:41:09,915 --> 00:41:13,298
has left his body almost
immune to its effects.
753
00:41:13,332 --> 00:41:16,508
Dr. Murray gives Jackson
10 milligrams of Valium
754
00:41:16,543 --> 00:41:18,027
and waits by his bedside.
755
00:41:20,098 --> 00:41:22,341
- What's fascinating and tragic
756
00:41:22,376 --> 00:41:26,035
about the way that
Michael Jackson died
was the sheer volume
757
00:41:26,069 --> 00:41:28,624
of prescription medication
that Conrad Murray
758
00:41:28,658 --> 00:41:31,523
was administering to
him was beyond belief.
759
00:41:31,558 --> 00:41:36,494
On the day he died, Jackson
had been on propofol,
760
00:41:36,528 --> 00:41:38,668
which is an anesthetic, which
should only be administered
761
00:41:38,703 --> 00:41:43,535
by anesthetists, for
60 consecutive days.
762
00:41:43,570 --> 00:41:44,674
Just imagine that for a minute.
763
00:41:44,709 --> 00:41:47,781
60 consecutive days of propofol.
764
00:41:48,713 --> 00:41:50,508
And still he could not sleep.
765
00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:54,235
And that's because,
like with all drugs,
766
00:41:54,270 --> 00:41:57,515
prescription drugs, synthetic
drugs, illegal drugs,
767
00:41:57,549 --> 00:42:00,656
natural drugs, whatever
type of drug you are taking,
768
00:42:00,690 --> 00:42:02,416
the brain develops tolerance.
769
00:42:02,450 --> 00:42:05,074
So the effect you get when
you first take the drug
770
00:42:05,108 --> 00:42:08,077
is not the effect you get
on the 100th or the 200th
771
00:42:08,111 --> 00:42:10,182
or the 500th or
the 1,000th time,
772
00:42:10,217 --> 00:42:13,323
so you need more and
more and more of the drug
773
00:42:13,358 --> 00:42:15,049
and the pleasure
and relief you got
774
00:42:15,084 --> 00:42:16,741
from taking the
drug to begin with
775
00:42:16,775 --> 00:42:18,777
turns into pain and distress.
776
00:42:18,812 --> 00:42:20,572
So you take the drug
no longer for pleasure
777
00:42:20,607 --> 00:42:23,057
but simply to stop feeling pain.
778
00:42:23,092 --> 00:42:26,198
Michael Jackson undoubtedly
was in extraordinary
779
00:42:26,233 --> 00:42:29,477
emotional pain and stress
because of his lifestyle,
780
00:42:29,512 --> 00:42:31,410
his life, and the comeback tour.
781
00:42:31,445 --> 00:42:35,587
And also he was putting enormous
physical stress on his body
782
00:42:35,622 --> 00:42:38,279
so he had physical pain and
emotional pain to contend with
783
00:42:38,314 --> 00:42:40,143
and he just wanted to sleep.
784
00:42:46,978 --> 00:42:49,739
- [Narrator] 3:00
a.m., shockingly,
785
00:42:49,774 --> 00:42:51,948
Michael Jackson is still awake,
786
00:42:51,983 --> 00:42:54,606
even after receiving
dose after dose
787
00:42:54,641 --> 00:42:56,677
of dangerously strong drugs.
788
00:42:58,127 --> 00:43:00,647
Dr. Murray proceeds to
administer two milligrams
789
00:43:00,681 --> 00:43:02,545
of Versed by an IV drip.
790
00:43:04,754 --> 00:43:09,517
7:00 a.m., disturbingly
Jackson is still awake.
791
00:43:10,898 --> 00:43:13,418
Dr. Murray strongly affirms
that he spent the night
792
00:43:13,452 --> 00:43:17,836
by Jackson's bedside monitoring
his pulse and oxygen levels.
793
00:43:19,217 --> 00:43:22,082
Dr. Murray administers a
further dosage of Versed
794
00:43:22,116 --> 00:43:23,152
through Jackson's IV.
795
00:43:24,705 --> 00:43:26,742
- But even that was not enough
796
00:43:26,776 --> 00:43:29,572
to send Michael
Jackson to sleep.
797
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:33,714
So over the next few
hours, the last few hours
798
00:43:33,749 --> 00:43:36,234
of Michael Jackson's
life he was administered
799
00:43:36,268 --> 00:43:39,547
with benzodiazepines, central
nervous system depressants,
800
00:43:39,582 --> 00:43:43,621
sedatives of one sort
or another intravenously
801
00:43:43,655 --> 00:43:47,038
until he drifted off into
sleep, unconsciousness,
802
00:43:47,935 --> 00:43:48,971
and eventually death.
803
00:43:50,904 --> 00:43:54,217
- [Narrator] 10:20 a.m.,
with Jackson still awake
804
00:43:54,252 --> 00:43:57,324
and in visible agony,
Dr. Conrad Murray
805
00:43:57,358 --> 00:43:59,809
makes a final, fatal decision.
806
00:43:59,844 --> 00:44:02,778
[dramatic music]
807
00:44:02,812 --> 00:44:06,333
He administers a further
25 milligrams of propofol
808
00:44:06,367 --> 00:44:07,334
to Michael Jackson.
809
00:44:08,956 --> 00:44:13,892
The king of pop finally
falls into a deep sleep.
810
00:44:14,997 --> 00:44:18,517
11:30 a.m., the powerful
cocktail of drugs
811
00:44:18,552 --> 00:44:21,210
inside Jackson's body
has now become lethal
812
00:44:22,142 --> 00:44:24,213
and he goes into cardiac arrest.
813
00:44:27,043 --> 00:44:28,044
- [Dr. Peter] So Michael Jackson
814
00:44:28,079 --> 00:44:29,459
might have struggled for breath.
815
00:44:29,494 --> 00:44:31,082
Slowly he might have suffocated,
816
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:35,776
gradually losing consciousness
until the moment came
817
00:44:36,639 --> 00:44:38,606
when his heart stopped.
818
00:44:38,641 --> 00:44:42,265
- [Narrator] 12:26 p.m.,
an unidentified man
819
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:45,303
makes the 911 call to the LAPD.
820
00:44:45,337 --> 00:44:46,545
- [Dispatch] Fire Paramedic 33,
821
00:44:46,580 --> 00:44:47,995
what is the address
of your emergency?
822
00:44:48,030 --> 00:44:50,204
- [Caller] Yes, sir,
I need an ambulance
823
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,896
as soon as possible, sir.
824
00:44:51,930 --> 00:44:55,416
- When the 911 call
came our firefighters
825
00:44:55,451 --> 00:44:57,867
at our dispatching
center, which is located
826
00:44:57,902 --> 00:45:00,732
four floors below the city hall
827
00:45:00,767 --> 00:45:04,253
down in the catacombs,
if you will, of the city.
828
00:45:04,287 --> 00:45:07,394
They took a 911 call
that shocked the world.
829
00:45:07,428 --> 00:45:08,947
- [Dispatch] OK sir,
what's your address?
830
00:45:08,982 --> 00:45:12,157
- [Caller] It's 100
North Carolwood Drive,
831
00:45:12,192 --> 00:45:15,851
Los Angeles, California 90077.
832
00:45:15,885 --> 00:45:17,231
- [Dispatch] You said Carolwood?
833
00:45:17,266 --> 00:45:19,406
- [Caller] Carolwood Drive, yes.
834
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,823
- Unfortunately at the
time the dispatcher
835
00:45:22,858 --> 00:45:26,068
answered the phone call and
never once did the caller
836
00:45:26,102 --> 00:45:29,002
ever identify to the Los
Angeles Fire Department
837
00:45:29,036 --> 00:45:32,626
that the person that needed
our help was Michael Jackson.
838
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:33,800
- [Dispatch] OK, sir,
what's the phone number
839
00:45:33,834 --> 00:45:36,078
you're calling from,
and what's the problem?
840
00:45:36,112 --> 00:45:37,873
Exactly what happened?
841
00:45:37,907 --> 00:45:39,150
- [Caller] Sir,
what happened was,
842
00:45:39,184 --> 00:45:40,979
we have a gentleman
here that needs help
843
00:45:41,014 --> 00:45:43,775
and he's not breathing,
he's not breathing
844
00:45:43,810 --> 00:45:46,502
and we're trying to pump
him, but he's not, he's not--
845
00:45:46,536 --> 00:45:48,780
- [Dispatch] OK,
OK, how old is he?
846
00:45:48,815 --> 00:45:50,126
- [Caller] He's
50 years old, sir.
847
00:45:50,161 --> 00:45:51,852
- [Dispatch] 50, OK.
848
00:45:51,887 --> 00:45:53,751
He's unconscious,
he's not breathing?
849
00:45:53,785 --> 00:45:55,235
- [Caller] Yes, he's
not breathing, sir.
850
00:45:55,269 --> 00:45:57,133
- [Dispatch] OK, and he's not
conscious either, he's not--
851
00:45:57,168 --> 00:45:58,238
- [Caller] No, he's
not conscious, sir.
852
00:45:58,272 --> 00:45:59,135
- [Dispatch] OK.
853
00:46:00,205 --> 00:46:03,312
- Once the dispatcher
got information
854
00:46:03,346 --> 00:46:06,833
about the patient and what
was happening with the patient
855
00:46:06,867 --> 00:46:09,905
the identifier said that
the patient was pulseless
856
00:46:09,939 --> 00:46:13,253
and non-breathing and that
a doctor was on the scene
857
00:46:13,287 --> 00:46:15,565
doing CPR on the bed.
858
00:46:16,601 --> 00:46:20,225
So part of our
instructions as already
859
00:46:20,260 --> 00:46:23,021
our firefighters and
paramedics are responding,
860
00:46:23,056 --> 00:46:26,956
we still have a firefighter
on the phone with the caller
861
00:46:26,991 --> 00:46:30,788
giving directions to give
life saving techniques
862
00:46:30,822 --> 00:46:33,169
to the people that could help.
863
00:46:34,688 --> 00:46:36,276
- [Dispatch] All right, do
you have, is he on the floor?
864
00:46:36,310 --> 00:46:37,760
Where's he at right now?
865
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:39,003
- [Caller] He's on the
bed, sir, he's on the bed.
866
00:46:39,037 --> 00:46:40,452
- [Dispatch] OK, let's
get him on the floor.
867
00:46:40,487 --> 00:46:41,902
- [Caller] OK.
868
00:46:41,937 --> 00:46:43,076
- [Dispatch] OK, let's
get him down to the floor.
869
00:46:43,110 --> 00:46:44,491
I'm gonna help you
with CPR right now, OK?
870
00:46:44,525 --> 00:46:45,975
- [Caller] We need
someone to get, we need--
871
00:46:46,010 --> 00:46:46,804
- [Dispatch] Yes, we're
already on our way there.
872
00:46:46,838 --> 00:46:48,288
We're on our way.
873
00:46:48,322 --> 00:46:49,220
I'm gonna do as much as I can
to help you over the phone.
874
00:46:49,254 --> 00:46:50,014
We're already on our way.
875
00:46:50,048 --> 00:46:51,670
Did anybody see him?
876
00:46:51,705 --> 00:46:53,949
- [Caller] Yes we
have a personal doctor
here with him, sir.
877
00:46:53,983 --> 00:46:55,605
- [Dispatch] Oh, you
have the doctor there?
878
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,022
- [Caller] But he's not
responding to anything, to no,
879
00:46:58,056 --> 00:46:59,851
he's not responding
to CPR or anything.
880
00:46:59,886 --> 00:47:02,302
- [Dispatch] Oh, OK, well
we're on our way there.
881
00:47:02,336 --> 00:47:04,683
If your guy's doing CPR and
you're instructed by a doctor
882
00:47:04,718 --> 00:47:08,032
he has a higher authority than
me and he's there on scene.
883
00:47:08,066 --> 00:47:09,654
- [Caller] OK.
884
00:47:09,688 --> 00:47:12,174
- [Dispatch] Did anybody
witness what happened?
885
00:47:12,208 --> 00:47:14,072
- [Caller] No, it's
just the doctor, sir.
886
00:47:14,107 --> 00:47:16,488
- [Narrator] Paramedics
arrive at the scene,
887
00:47:16,523 --> 00:47:19,284
but Dr. Murray can no
longer detect a pulse.
888
00:47:20,699 --> 00:47:25,566
- I was told that Michael
Jackson was being transported
889
00:47:26,947 --> 00:47:30,848
to UCLA Hospital on June
25th and the fire department
890
00:47:33,505 --> 00:47:36,750
was on scene at
Michael Jackson's house
891
00:47:36,784 --> 00:47:38,890
three minutes and 17 seconds
892
00:47:38,925 --> 00:47:43,239
from the time the emergency
911 call came on June 25th
893
00:47:43,274 --> 00:47:45,759
to when it came to
the fire station
894
00:47:45,793 --> 00:47:48,486
from the firefighters getting
out of the fire station
895
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,040
to the address where
Michael Jackson was
896
00:47:51,075 --> 00:47:53,525
was three minutes
and 17 seconds.
897
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,838
And we worked on Michael
Jackson for approximately
898
00:47:55,873 --> 00:48:00,808
about 48 minutes and once
the fire department realized
899
00:48:02,189 --> 00:48:04,674
that it was now proper
to transport our patient,
900
00:48:04,709 --> 00:48:08,609
Michael Jackson to the hospital,
they were 2.3 miles away,
901
00:48:08,644 --> 00:48:11,440
but he worked about
45 to 48 minutes.
902
00:48:11,474 --> 00:48:14,098
We worked 45 minutes
because as paramedics
903
00:48:14,132 --> 00:48:17,170
we call it the golden
hour, and the firefighters
904
00:48:17,204 --> 00:48:19,931
and paramedics can
pass medications,
905
00:48:19,966 --> 00:48:23,245
can do life saving techniques
to help our patients.
906
00:48:23,279 --> 00:48:25,419
We're in contact with
our base station,
907
00:48:25,454 --> 00:48:28,388
which is at UCLA giving
us medical direction
908
00:48:28,422 --> 00:48:31,218
on what type of medicines
we could give our patient
909
00:48:31,253 --> 00:48:32,737
to help him survive.
910
00:48:34,152 --> 00:48:38,881
- [Narrator] 2:26
p.m. June 25th, 2009.
911
00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:42,505
The legend of Michael Jackson
comes to a shocking end.
912
00:48:43,575 --> 00:48:44,818
He is pronounced dead
913
00:48:44,852 --> 00:48:47,338
at the Ronald Reagan
UCLA Medical Center.
914
00:48:51,859 --> 00:48:53,447
- Oh, it was devastating.
915
00:48:53,482 --> 00:48:55,104
- It was like the world paused.
916
00:48:55,139 --> 00:48:57,106
- I just can't
actually believe it.
917
00:48:57,141 --> 00:49:00,799
It still feels like
it's a really bad dream.
918
00:49:00,834 --> 00:49:03,595
It hasn't really sunk in.
919
00:49:03,630 --> 00:49:08,600
It doesn't feel real, it
just, it feels all wrong.
920
00:49:08,635 --> 00:49:10,602
- Well I was actually in my room
921
00:49:10,637 --> 00:49:14,503
and I was watching something
on one of the other channels
922
00:49:14,537 --> 00:49:17,437
and I got a phone call
and a friend of mine said,
923
00:49:17,471 --> 00:49:18,369
"Have you seen the news?"
924
00:49:18,403 --> 00:49:19,853
And I said, "What do you mean?"
925
00:49:19,887 --> 00:49:21,959
And he says, "Put the news
on," so I flicked over
926
00:49:21,993 --> 00:49:26,964
and of course it said Michael
was admitted to hospital
927
00:49:28,413 --> 00:49:30,346
and then it just got from
one bad thing to another
928
00:49:30,381 --> 00:49:34,316
and then he was pronounced
dead, and it was, I mean,
929
00:49:35,558 --> 00:49:36,456
I just couldn't believe it.
930
00:49:36,490 --> 00:49:37,940
I thought it was in a dream.
931
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:40,011
I was gonna wake up,
it was all a big joke.
932
00:49:40,046 --> 00:49:44,498
I just couldn't absorb
it, it was just horrible.
933
00:49:44,533 --> 00:49:47,985
This happened, I think U.K.
time around 2:00 in the morning
934
00:49:48,019 --> 00:49:50,815
and my kids were
upstairs and I thought,
935
00:49:50,849 --> 00:49:52,023
well, do I go up and tell them?
936
00:49:52,058 --> 00:49:53,266
I said, no, no,
no, let them sleep.
937
00:49:53,300 --> 00:49:54,681
They have to get up for
school in the morning.
938
00:49:54,715 --> 00:49:57,373
And well, I went up and
knocked on their door
939
00:49:57,408 --> 00:49:58,409
and I said, "Look,
I've got something
940
00:49:58,443 --> 00:50:00,998
"really awful to tell you."
941
00:50:01,032 --> 00:50:03,897
And I told them, and you
know, they just broke down
942
00:50:03,931 --> 00:50:08,212
in floods of tears,
so it was, really,
943
00:50:08,246 --> 00:50:11,249
that's what hit me then, really.
944
00:50:11,284 --> 00:50:12,733
- Everybody felt a connection.
945
00:50:12,768 --> 00:50:15,667
Whether you liked him or not,
you grew up with something
946
00:50:15,702 --> 00:50:17,221
you remember the
song, you connected.
947
00:50:17,255 --> 00:50:19,326
It could be a dance
with your partner.
948
00:50:19,361 --> 00:50:21,018
Whatever it is,
it was at a place.
949
00:50:21,052 --> 00:50:22,502
You first heard when
Thriller came out.
950
00:50:22,536 --> 00:50:25,367
You was upstairs on the BB,
I don't know, whatever it was
951
00:50:26,816 --> 00:50:30,234
and they felt there was a
certain element of loss.
952
00:50:30,268 --> 00:50:32,270
Something, whether
they like him or not.
953
00:50:34,341 --> 00:50:35,998
- Ever since I was born
954
00:50:38,897 --> 00:50:42,729
Daddy has been the best
father you could ever imagine.
955
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,460
[sobbing]
956
00:50:50,633 --> 00:50:54,637
And I just wanted to
say I love him so much.
957
00:50:57,226 --> 00:51:00,195
- [Narrator] But the question
on everyone's lips is,
958
00:51:00,229 --> 00:51:01,265
why did this happen?
959
00:51:02,335 --> 00:51:05,717
And the second question,
who is to blame?
960
00:51:15,175 --> 00:51:17,212
- He got in a bad
situation, you know?
961
00:51:17,246 --> 00:51:21,975
He got in a bad situation
where he had developed
962
00:51:22,009 --> 00:51:27,014
a dependency on
certain prescriptions
including propofol,
963
00:51:28,154 --> 00:51:29,879
which wasn't supposed to be used
964
00:51:29,914 --> 00:51:31,916
in the way that
it was being used.
965
00:51:31,950 --> 00:51:35,057
And unfortunately
there were doctors
966
00:51:35,092 --> 00:51:40,097
including Dr. Conrad Murray
who weren't directing him
967
00:51:41,236 --> 00:51:45,240
to the kind of help
that he actually needed.
968
00:51:45,274 --> 00:51:48,519
Whether he needed help sleeping
969
00:51:48,553 --> 00:51:50,762
or whether he was having anxiety
970
00:51:50,797 --> 00:51:53,800
or these different
things that he was saying
971
00:51:53,834 --> 00:51:57,252
that he needed help
with, you know,
972
00:51:57,286 --> 00:51:59,288
instead of getting
what he needed,
973
00:52:01,359 --> 00:52:03,499
they were using
these very unusual,
974
00:52:03,534 --> 00:52:06,261
dangerous methods
to address those.
975
00:52:06,295 --> 00:52:09,781
And you know, he's building
up for this big comeback tour
976
00:52:09,816 --> 00:52:12,163
and his doctor's putting
him to sleep every night
977
00:52:12,198 --> 00:52:15,718
with propofol, which is
usually used for surgery.
978
00:52:17,237 --> 00:52:22,242
And it's extremely dangerous
and so Michael Jackson died
979
00:52:23,381 --> 00:52:25,418
because of what happened
throughout his life
980
00:52:25,452 --> 00:52:28,731
which is that the
people around him
981
00:52:30,423 --> 00:52:32,701
viewed him for what
they could get from him.
982
00:52:32,735 --> 00:52:34,910
And you know, in this case,
the doctor was getting
983
00:52:34,944 --> 00:52:39,949
$150,000 a month and was
being extremely reckless.
984
00:52:41,606 --> 00:52:43,298
- It was gross neglect.
985
00:52:43,332 --> 00:52:48,337
And this was not someone that
I would trust as my doctor.
986
00:52:50,236 --> 00:52:52,134
And that's all I really
will say about that.
987
00:52:54,101 --> 00:52:55,448
Someone like Michael Jackson
988
00:52:55,482 --> 00:52:58,002
should have had a proper
doctor, not someone,
989
00:52:59,417 --> 00:53:02,455
you know, in America it's very
much a problem, I believe.
990
00:53:02,489 --> 00:53:04,905
I find that you can
pretty much get your hands
991
00:53:04,940 --> 00:53:08,185
on lots of prescriptive
drugs and things like this.
992
00:53:08,219 --> 00:53:10,704
This is why Hollywood has
so many problems with drugs.
993
00:53:10,739 --> 00:53:14,501
So I would just put it down
to gross negligence, you know?
994
00:53:14,536 --> 00:53:15,778
- What Conrad Murray
should have done,
995
00:53:15,813 --> 00:53:19,092
if he is putting Michael
Jackson into in effect
996
00:53:19,126 --> 00:53:21,922
a drug-induced coma, which
is what he was doing,
997
00:53:21,957 --> 00:53:25,788
he is putting Michael
Jackson to sleep
998
00:53:25,823 --> 00:53:29,309
with a vast quantity of
prescription medication.
999
00:53:30,862 --> 00:53:33,106
Then that needs proper
monitoring and he
was not qualified
1000
00:53:33,140 --> 00:53:35,626
to do that, he wasn't
qualified to do it.
1001
00:53:35,660 --> 00:53:40,355
So he was gambling, really,
with Michael Jackson's life
1002
00:53:40,389 --> 00:53:43,220
and doing what Michael
Jackson wanted him to do
1003
00:53:43,254 --> 00:53:45,325
simply because he
was afraid not to.
1004
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,224
Perhaps because he had
problems in his own life.
1005
00:53:47,258 --> 00:53:49,640
I think there were
well-documented issues
1006
00:53:49,674 --> 00:53:51,469
Conrad Murray had with debt
1007
00:53:51,504 --> 00:53:53,678
and his own personal
financial situation
1008
00:53:53,713 --> 00:53:57,095
so Jackson wasn't a patient
he could afford to lose,
1009
00:53:57,130 --> 00:53:58,683
but of course he lost him,
1010
00:53:58,718 --> 00:54:00,202
and he lost him in the
worst possible way.
1011
00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:01,617
- [Court Official] You're
charged with the offense
1012
00:54:01,652 --> 00:54:04,482
of involuntary manslaughter,
a felony, Dr. Murray.
1013
00:54:04,517 --> 00:54:06,173
How do you plead?
1014
00:54:06,208 --> 00:54:08,486
- Your honor, I am
an innocent man.
1015
00:54:09,763 --> 00:54:12,456
I therefore plead not guilty.
1016
00:54:12,490 --> 00:54:17,426
- The facts in this
case, in my view,
1017
00:54:17,461 --> 00:54:21,913
suggest that virtually
none of the safeguards
1018
00:54:21,948 --> 00:54:26,953
for sedation were in place
when propofol was administered
1019
00:54:28,541 --> 00:54:29,852
to Michael Jackson.
1020
00:54:29,887 --> 00:54:31,578
It's an egregious violation.
1021
00:54:31,613 --> 00:54:35,410
No competent physician
would give these drugs
1022
00:54:35,444 --> 00:54:39,310
without having emergency
equipment present.
1023
00:54:41,554 --> 00:54:44,902
- Well, I think it was
just an awful accident
1024
00:54:44,936 --> 00:54:48,319
where medication that was used
1025
00:54:48,354 --> 00:54:52,461
shouldn't have been
used unsupervised.
1026
00:54:52,496 --> 00:54:54,636
That kind of medication
is only used in hospitals
1027
00:54:54,670 --> 00:54:57,570
as far as I know and
he should have been
1028
00:54:57,604 --> 00:54:59,330
on some kind of monitor.
1029
00:54:59,365 --> 00:55:03,852
But he shouldn't have been
given it in the first place.
1030
00:55:03,886 --> 00:55:07,096
Unfortunately if you
pay, what's the saying
1031
00:55:07,131 --> 00:55:09,340
he who pays the
piper calls the tune
1032
00:55:09,375 --> 00:55:12,170
and if Michael wanted
that, he'd find someone
1033
00:55:12,205 --> 00:55:13,379
and pay 'em enough to do it.
1034
00:55:13,413 --> 00:55:18,384
And sadly that
took his life away.
1035
00:55:19,557 --> 00:55:21,697
- I wished he had
the opportunity
1036
00:55:23,009 --> 00:55:28,014
of having a life for himself
1037
00:55:29,395 --> 00:55:32,777
and letting the children grow
up and say, you know, Dad.
1038
00:55:32,812 --> 00:55:36,022
So he can sit back, and whether
they perform or whatever
1039
00:55:36,056 --> 00:55:38,783
I think for him to enjoy
something that he never had,
1040
00:55:38,818 --> 00:55:40,337
it felt like from
the day he was born
1041
00:55:40,371 --> 00:55:42,546
to the day he died
he entertained.
1042
00:55:44,133 --> 00:55:46,343
If that's the way he wanted
it, then good for you,
1043
00:55:46,377 --> 00:55:50,519
but if he wanted some privacy,
1044
00:55:50,554 --> 00:55:52,107
I don't think he
got enough of it.
1045
00:55:52,141 --> 00:55:53,833
I don't think it was fair.
1046
00:55:53,867 --> 00:55:55,697
I think we should
respect him and honor him
1047
00:55:55,731 --> 00:55:58,803
for what he gave musically.
1048
00:55:58,838 --> 00:56:02,669
[sad, slow piano music]
1049
00:56:02,704 --> 00:56:04,637
- You know, what's
getting lost here
1050
00:56:04,671 --> 00:56:07,778
is that Michael Jackson
is an incredible artist.
1051
00:56:07,812 --> 00:56:09,607
And artists aren't
always normal.
1052
00:56:09,642 --> 00:56:13,439
In fact some of the greatest
artists are very eccentric
1053
00:56:13,473 --> 00:56:16,683
and very unique, very different
and Michael's no different.
1054
00:56:16,718 --> 00:56:18,409
Michael was a great artist.
1055
00:56:18,444 --> 00:56:22,620
He lived his life in a different
way, in an unusual way,
1056
00:56:22,655 --> 00:56:26,383
provoked a lot of questions,
but when we go back
1057
00:56:26,417 --> 00:56:28,971
to those songs and we
go back to those videos,
1058
00:56:29,006 --> 00:56:30,801
when we go back to those albums
1059
00:56:30,835 --> 00:56:35,840
we find just an incredibly
rich, diverse array of art
1060
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:39,741
that deserves attention.
1061
00:56:41,156 --> 00:56:42,916
For all the scandals, for
all the eccentricities
1062
00:56:42,951 --> 00:56:44,504
Michael was an artist
1063
00:56:44,539 --> 00:56:46,299
and he wanted to be
remembered as an artist.
1064
00:56:46,333 --> 00:56:50,027
In fact, one of his
last quotes in 2007
1065
00:56:50,061 --> 00:56:53,686
was a quote from
Michelangelo, and he says,
1066
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:57,379
"To escape death I bind
my soul to my work."
1067
00:57:16,847 --> 00:57:21,058
- On the question everybody
asks in any death,
1068
00:57:21,092 --> 00:57:24,751
but especially the death of
one of the 20th century's
1069
00:57:24,786 --> 00:57:29,307
most iconic figures,
is who is responsible?
1070
00:57:29,342 --> 00:57:31,137
Who can we blame?
1071
00:57:31,171 --> 00:57:33,311
And obviously Conrad
Murray was the fall guy
1072
00:57:33,346 --> 00:57:34,796
and rightly so.
1073
00:57:34,830 --> 00:57:37,246
There's no question that he
played a contributing role
1074
00:57:37,281 --> 00:57:39,421
in Michael Jackson's death,
1075
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:42,666
but so did Michael
Jackson's family.
1076
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:45,945
Did Michael Jackson's father
play a role in his death?
1077
00:57:45,979 --> 00:57:49,327
Did the many people who
allowed Michael Jackson
1078
00:57:49,362 --> 00:57:53,711
to go down the road he went
down play a role in his death?
1079
00:57:53,746 --> 00:57:56,749
Of course they did,
but, and here's the but,
1080
00:57:56,783 --> 00:58:01,719
ultimately you cannot take a
drug or a drink by accident.
1081
00:58:04,446 --> 00:58:06,137
[dramatic music]
1082
00:58:06,172 --> 00:58:09,693
Yeah, you have to either
ask someone to administer it
1083
00:58:09,727 --> 00:58:12,350
for you or you have to
administer it yourself.
1084
00:58:12,385 --> 00:58:17,114
And the only hope that any
addict has is that they see
1085
00:58:17,148 --> 00:58:20,669
that they are responsible
for their own actions.
1086
00:58:21,843 --> 00:58:23,741
Because the more
we allow an addict
1087
00:58:23,776 --> 00:58:25,778
to pass the responsibility
for their addiction
1088
00:58:25,812 --> 00:58:29,367
onto someone else, the more
impossible recovery becomes.
1089
00:58:29,402 --> 00:58:32,198
So if we were to really say,
who is ultimately to blame?
1090
00:58:34,027 --> 00:58:37,479
One has to point the finger
at Michael Jackson himself.
1091
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:39,930
Not in a harsh,
judgemental sense,
1092
00:58:39,964 --> 00:58:43,450
but just in the sense that other
people watching that story,
1093
00:58:43,485 --> 00:58:46,039
that they need to learn
what they need to do
1094
00:58:46,074 --> 00:58:48,870
if they are suffering
through similar problems.
1095
00:58:48,904 --> 00:58:50,872
They know what they
need to do to recover,
1096
00:58:50,906 --> 00:58:53,530
which is to take responsibility
for their own addictions.
1097
00:58:53,564 --> 00:58:56,429
Do not make it
somebody else's fault
1098
00:58:56,463 --> 00:58:59,087
otherwise the addiction
will kill you.
1099
00:59:00,709 --> 00:59:04,333
- [Narrator] Michael Jackson
was an icon, a legend,
1100
00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:09,373
the king of pop, but the real
tragedy of Jackson's death
1101
00:59:10,512 --> 00:59:11,478
is a lesson in
the price of fame.
1102
00:59:12,618 --> 00:59:14,999
When you can have
everything in the world,
1103
00:59:15,034 --> 00:59:18,658
who can stop you if you
can't stop yourself?
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