Did The Stress Of His Comeback Drive Jackson To Drug Abuse???
Filed under: Michael Jackson
Entertainment author and television host Robin Leach has posted a sad/disturbing blog entry about Michael Jackson's final days on his "Luxe Life" blog.
According to Leach's source (who he has been "sworn" to never name), two nights before Michael died, he was "in a high state of stress and emotional drama, fearing that he would never be able to complete the 50-concert run in London, and it would kill him."
Wow.
Jackson was hoping AEG would let him perform This Is It as a "one-night world spectacular," with simulcats of the footage in theaters and arenas around the world as well as a subsequent DVD and CD release, hoping AEG would earn the same amount of cash from his proposed idea as he would have earned performing for 50 dates.
AEG told Jackson the show must go on, even though Jackson reportedly said at his last rehearsal, "…We can't go on. I'll never make all 50. It will kill me." The late King of Pop returned from the rehearsal "exhausted, highly strung, stressed and sweating profusely," according to the source.
With AEG's rejection of Jackson's plan, he became "more stressed than he'd ever been in his life" and wrestled with severe bouts of insomnia; the source believes this is what drove Michael to seek out Diprivan, the sedative primarily used for anesthesia.
So, so sad.
Leach also reveals in his post that a Michael Jackson tribute show may be hitting the Vegas Strip quite soon! Joe Jackson and Janet, among other family members, have had offers made to them regarding the tribute, and "the negotiations will intensify this week after [Tuesday's] memorial service and burial."
The former Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host also has learned from insiders that AEG has "more than enough" footage of the This Is It rehearsals to make a "making-of" documentary.
Only time will tell.
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damn that's a shame
lol…yeah try to shift the blame for his death on aeg…..bullshit,he was a prescription junkie,no better than a meth/coke/heroin junkie, just more money to buy dope with.junkie junkie junkie.
i guess
Makes alot of sense. He was also stressed about all his finances. RIP, Michael, you're finally at peace.
I guess you weren't A today
Hopefully I'll hear from you sometime this week. Yat & ymi 46, bg
Who gives a fuck. Please no more Please Please
:( rip mj
you know what's even sadder, those fuckers at AEG probably don't even feel bad about it. corporate dickheads that have the power of life and death over people don't give a shit.
I think perez might be right on this one..it's what drove Dorothy Dandridge to her early end too…sad…
Give me a break Perez.
Your pedophile hero was abusing prescription drugs LONG before AEG made any concert deals.
This was a guy who couldn't even walk to his car without a cane or a wheelchair.
Who ever thought he'd make it through 50 shows?
oh, the dumb europeans. If this company ripped off an American crowd,
there'd be congressional inquiries I suppose.
no the compulsion drove him to it.(case closed)
Not stress so much as being just plain stupid. Let's face it, the guy's IQ had to be double digits.
enough already with this micheal Jackson shit…he didn't do anything in the world except make music
get over it people!
Re: sweet chupacabra – who gives a shit, he's dead.
WTF would anyone care what ROBIN LEACH says? He's an old, bloated asswipe who makes up stuff to stay relevant. PULEEZ.
Re: Edgenet – yes pleas, enough, it's BORING, he died of a drug overdose
toss his druggie ass onto the street with the rest that OD. just because he was famous meant nothing. he was a drug abuser and died from it.
just because you are on pain doesnt make you an addict.
you can never understand how it was to be Michael Jackson. all the pressure, the media, the accusations. it took a toll on him. if any of you haters would had go through such kind of thing, you would break down immediately.
eventually.. all the lies, the pressure, the accusations killed him. if u wanna know MJ's pain, understand what society took away from him.
Stress of a comeback is far from the reason why Mik did drugs, he had alot of issues personal and professional. He finally gets some peace and rest. For once I wish the media and his family grat him that wish.
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why oh why are some people trying to act like his drug abuse and anesthesia is something new? there are articles dating back to 94 AND 2005 calling him out on his drug and aneshesia abuse.
Nobody gave a fuck until he died. It would have flopped. The end.
Re: MOMMIE DEAREST – I agree. He has been an addict for YEARS and a victim of his own bad decisions. Let's stop elevating him to undeserved levels.
Re: minaahm – Oh please..he loved every minute of the attention he got,,, are you kidding??
Re: SheriMoonFireFly – Bitch, please. You reap what you sow. Yes, doctors have culpability…but have you ever heard of addiction? Doctor shopping? This man has been making bad decisions for many, many years. Ultimately, the blame is his - especially that he was so irresponsible because he had three children.
Maybe if he would have not lied about being on drugs he would still be here. His manager stated today they had been asking him at rehearsals if he was ok… if he was on anything …and he said he would just get mad and say NO! Why would you ask me such a thing?…but he said they all knew he was!
Re: SheriMoonFireFly – WRONG..he died because he loved drugs.
OBVIOUSLY!!!!!!!!
I've known that's the whole reason since the beginning. People would be comparing him to the days of "Thriller" etc and he could never do now what he did then, and he knew it.
Just more leeches still trying to suck money out of Michael.
I hope most of ANY money goes to his kids .
Please,God,don't let Joe Jackson get one thin dime!
He died because no one cared enough to punch him in the face and say: NO, you can't kill yourself with drugs. Where was the family on this?
What a tool you are, Perez. "So, so sad" you write - as if you actually care. Funny how less than 2 weeks ago you were accusing Michael Jackson of faking a heart attack.
'(Now maybe for the remorse of his death Chandler decides to tell us the chandlertruth. ” I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell only lies. Now i can’t tell Michael how much i’m sorry and if he will forgive me ”. Evan Chandler was tape-recorded saying amongst other things, “If I go through with this, I win big-time. There’s no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever…") this is coming out the mouth of that little bitches mouth that said that mj molested him i feel like killing this little ass hole.
he has been abusing drugs for over 20 years-this did not just happen over then last for months. Don't blame aeg or anyone else. it was michael, he did all this to him self-did not need anyone else to help
why don't we blame his dad, or pepsi, or the people who sold him his llamas or the company that manufactured the ferris wheel or maybe he was allergic to the sequins on his one glove or …….
HE ABUSED DRUGS FOR OVER 20 YEARS, DO NOT IN ANY CERTAIN TERMS BLAME AEG, STRESS OR ANY OTHER BS THING. IF MJ DID NOT SPEND, SPEND SPEND, HE WOULD HAVE HAD MONEY, HE WOULD HAVE HAD MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION.
all I can say is that everyone is responsible for their own acts…. RIP MJ
He was a drug addict. Stable people do not use stress as an excuse to suck down pounds of drugs! Stable people exercise more, drop a Melatonin, or at the most get a week's worth of Ambien from a doctor if they have insomnia. They don't use it as an excuse to illegally mainline a professional anesthesia drug. He was a free adult and did not have to do the concerts. The only way AEG could book him for 50 concerts is if he signed a contract. Just because he was so out of it that he didn't realize how many concerts he was agreeing to doesn't make it their fault! If he couldn't do all 50 shows, then what a normal person would have done is get his attorney, sit down with AEG and renegotiate, not hit up every doctor in the greater Los Angeles area for drugs!
Re: Pocahontas – Good point.One gets the impression that his family didn't care,not to mention LaToya's "statement" against her brother in the 90's.
Sad.
his stupid fucking publicists killed him by pressurising him
i liked michaels idea better - one show which would be recorded
ANYONE COULD SEE HE WAS IN NO STATE TO DO 50!!!
MUDERERS
AT LEAST THEY LOS THEIR MONEY HAHA
RIP Michael…I love you
Any idiot would know that he wasn't going to make 50 shows by just looking at him. 50 shows is tough for an artist in top shape. The people around him only saw $$$. They didn't care about his well being. AEG should be brought up on charges.
Monkeyjena.. Do you not find it strange that the media have not picked up on this story… well that's because its a pack of lies.. It appeared on some random blog and then all the deluded MJ fans immediately latched on to it everyone else could see it was totally made up interview probably by one of the sad deluded MJ fans that whitter on about it on here.. There is absolutely no confirmation of who he spoke to or when.. No newspaper has confirmed it no tv news programme or reporter…In fact there is no record of him ever saying this to anyone.. In fact it's only morons like you that actually believe it…
Re: gimlet123 – Why should AEG be brought up on charges - its Michael Jackson's greed that put him where he is today - 6 feet under by now hopefully…well greed and a massive drug habit..
FFS who cares.He is dead .One way or another.For this or that or the other reason. Junkie. Emotionally and sexually retarded at age 14 or so. Big wank.
Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain…
WORLD EXCLUSIVE by David Gardner in Los Angeles 5/07/2009…
Organ removed as investigators seek clues to star's death…
Appointment of Special Team looking specifically for the Billie………Gene……….
ok whatever, another drug addict, pedophile, child molester died. NEXT!
Jacksons are friggen $ hungry pigs. Joe Jackson is EVIL! Divorce him mom and maybe, just maybe you will get the kids.
How could he practice/rehearse while so drugged up? He looked good in that video??? Stress? Maybe false reports of child molestation - giant legal bills for that? Those people should be in jail and should be required to pay the State of California back for the expense of the investigation and trial.