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Celeb News: MJ abuse, drugs exposed by makeup artist
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MJ abuse, drugs exposed by makeup artist
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, his longtime makeup artist testified Thursday.
"This was not the man I knew," Karen Faye testified. "He was acting like a person I didn't recognize."
His last days
Faye, who traveled with Jackson on his "Bad," "Dangerous" and "History" tours, said she was concerned when she first saw the schedule for Jackson's 50 "This Is It" shows at London's O2 arena.
"On looking at that, I said, 'He can't do this,'" Faye testified. "The shows are far too close together. I knew what he needed between shows. I thought he might last a week."
When she raised the matter with show director Kenny Ortega, "he kind of fluffed it off," she said.
"Michael's adrenaline and what it takes for him to perform with that much effort and what he himself puts into a show, he needed a lot more time to at least get some rest and sleep, and to be healthy and maintain that kind of longevity," she said.
He was "very upbeat, but he was on the thin side" when she saw him in April as preparations for the start of the shows in July were under way, she said. "I thought he had plenty of time to put on some body mass and muscle mass."
Jackson appeared "very, very excited" in early production meetings, but "the first time he actually got up on stage and rehearsed, I saw the change in him."
"The turning point was when he had to get up on stage and actually start performing," she said.
Jackson hated live performances, she said. "It was just too hard on him."
Eventually, "they had to make him rehearse," she said. "They're insisting to the point of going to his home."
In Jackson's last days, Faye was pressured to ignore what Jackson told her to do and instead take her direction from Randy Phillips, AEG's CEO, she testified. She once was ordered to put Jackson on stage and place his earpiece in when he did not want it, she said.
"I was supposed to exhibit tough love" and not listen to what Jackson was telling her to do, Faye testified.
At one point, Jackson locked himself in a bathroom at his home, refusing to leave for rehearsals at the Forum. AEG Live Co-CEO Paul Gongaware, who was in charge of the production, was "angry and kind of desperate to get Michael to the Forum," she said.
She overheard a phone call in which Gongaware was telling Jackson's security guard [b]"to get him out of the bathroom. Do you have a key? Do whatever it takes," she said Gongaware screamed.[/b]
At a rehearsal in mid-June, Jackson was "very stoic" and seem "frightened." He was talking to himself, she said. "When I was around, he was repeating himself an awful lot, saying the same thing over and over again."
"He kept repeating, 'why can't I choose,' it was one of the things he repeated over and over again," she said.
A show producer testified Wednesday that Jackson told Ortega "God keeps talking to me."
Faye said she suggested to Ortega that a psychologist should be brought in to assess Jackson.
Faye, who had to touch Jackson when she put on his makeup, said it was "like I was touching ice." At one rehearsal, she covered him with blankets and put a space heater next to him, she said.
"I've never seen him so emaciated," she said.
Faye said she raised her concerns once in June with Phillips. He told her, "Yeah, this is bad. It's not so good. I had to scrape Michael off the floor in London at the announcement because he was so drunk," she said.
Faye testified that Phillips told her at Jackson's funeral that "he tried to do everything he could."
Did she believe him, asked Jackson lawyer Brian Panish.
"Sir, Michael Jackson is lying in a casket only a few feet away from me," she said. "I had no words to respond. That's not everything you can do."
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Gongaware, now the Co-CEO of AEG Live, was in charge of logistics for the "Dangerous" tour and was involved in the incident, Faye said.
Finkelstein used "a balance of medications strong enough to overcome Michael's pain," Faye said.
Later in the tour in Singapore, Jackson stumbled into his dressing room before a show, she said. "He was having a very hard time walking," she said. "He was glazed over. He fell over a tree."
She told the tour doctor, whom she identified as Dr. David Forecast, that "Michael can't go on."
His show opened with him being thrust onto the stage by a "toaster," which requires him to "curl up and be shot up" from a small enclosure under the stage, she said.
"His arm could be severed," Faye said. "I feared for his safety, I feared for his life. I told Dr. Forecast, 'You can't make him go out. You can't take him.' And he said, 'Yes, I can.'"
The doctor "backed me up against the wall and put his hands around my neck and said 'You don't know what your doing,'" she testified. "I nearly fainted, and he grabbed Michael and took him to the stage."
The show, however, was eventually canceled, she said.
"Michael was under a lot of stress at that time because that's when the first child allegations were made public," Faye said. "Michael had to go on stage every night knowing that the whole world thought he was a pedophile. He had to stand up in front of all these audiences with the physical pain that he had and knowing that everybody in that audience is thinking that he was the vilest pedophile on earth. To this day I don't know how he did that."
The tour ended early when it reached Mexico City "because everybody knew Michael had a problem," she said. Elizabeth Taylor came down to Mexico to get Jackson, and "we all went home."
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I took out excerpts because it's a long write-up, but wow.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/showbi...html?hpt=hp_c3
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Why can't they just leave him alone!
I swear i don't wanna read these stories no more
I feel so sad thinking about what he went through.
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It's so sad to read this.
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This and the new molestations stories, my heart cannot take. 
Why didn't they learn from all his songs begging for Privacy and a regular life? Humans are so cruel. 
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Sounds like his team just kept pumping him for money until it literally killed him. 
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Ughh they abused him so much he forgot he was a human that could make his own decisions.
Can I please have the full names and phone numbers to all these cruel people?
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
Sounds like his team just kept pumping him for money until it literally killed him. |
Yeah, I mean he was in literally so much pain from all the hard work that they had to pump him full of medicine to get him to continue performing and stuff...
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I just don't even know what to say anymore if any of this is true or not.
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Originally posted by Lose My Breath
Yeah, I mean he was in literally so much pain from all the hard work that they had to pump him full of medicine to get him to continue performing and stuff...
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OMG I'm tearing up, I don't wanna hear anymore. Lemme exit. Not while I'm listening to him too.
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And this is why I don't believe he molested anyone.
This man was troubled. He didn't have time to be a pedophile.
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People should stahp.Poor Michael, may he just rest in piece despite this kind of human.
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Yeah, but it's not even like he didn't ask for this life. He WANTED this life, wanted more than anything the highest level of commercial success and fame, even in his later days when he betrayed it more.
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Yeah, but it's not even like he didn't ask for this life. He WANTED this life, wanted more than anything the highest level of commercial success and fame, even in his later days when he betrayed it more.
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Nobody asks for this
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Originally posted by Onen
And this is why I don't believe he molested anyone.
This man was troubled. He didn't have time to be a pedophile.
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Pretty much, honestly. The only reasons why those rumors exist anyways is cause he changed his skin and it made him look pretty damn scary. Had he never gone "white," he probably wouldn't have been accused. Pretty sad if you think about it. 
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Originally posted by hausofbryan
Sounds like his team just kept pumping him for money until it literally killed him. |
Some people are so greedy
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Originally posted by Aqim
People should stahp.Poor Michael, may he just rest in piece despite this kind of human.
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Huh?
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Originally posted by Onen
And this is why I don't believe he molested anyone.
This man was troubled. He didn't have time to be a pedophile.
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That is ridiculous imo.
That is EXACTLY the type of person who would be one.
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Originally posted by Waffles_
That is ridiculous imo.
That is EXACTLY the type of person who would be one.
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Ummm....no.
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