Jackson Had Skin Cancer, Health Problems, Before Death
July 3, 2009 by Amber
Filed under Celebrity, Michael Jackson
As the news reports and rumours surrounding Michael Jackson’s shock death on June 25 keep pouring in, biographer Diane Dimond has added another, claiming an “unnamed family source” informed her that the singer had a cancerous lesion removed from his nose just days before he suffered an alleged cardiac arrest.
“Last week, I had two real sources call me and say he’s getting surgery right now for removal of skin cancer off his nose,” Dimond revealed. “This is not a man who suffers pain well. He likes painkillers. So he got some from here, he got some from there – who knows how much.”
While this new information could prove vital for those investigating the King of Pop’s death, it’s merely one of many instances over the last month of his life involving high doses of narcotic painkillers.
Other sources have revealed that in his final months, Jackson was suffering from extreme insomnia, and had become practically nocturnal in his sleeping habits. When the rehearsals for the tour hit full swing, however, it “totally screwed up his system.”
“For the past 15 years, Michael always slept until 3 or 4 in the afternoon and was up all night,” the source said. “When he started rehearsals for the tour, it totally screwed up his system.”
In order to rise earlier and sleep less, Jackson began adding stimulants to his “daily drug regimen,” the source added. One such stimulant is believed to have been the powerful hospital-grade drug, Diprivan, which the singer’s former nurse Cherilyn Lee “repeatedly” refused to give to Jackson.
Lee is adamant that she never obtained the drug for the singer, however, a strange phone call she received from Jackson and his people just four days before his shock death has left her to believe that he’d somehow managed to obtain Diprivan or another similar drug.
The phone call, from a minder of Jackson’s was very frantic, Lee said, and told her, “Michael needs to see you right away. I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I could hear Michael in the background… ‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body it cold. It’s very cold.’
“I said, ‘Tell him he needs to go to the hospital,’” Lee recalls. “‘I don’t know what’s going, but he needs to go to the hospital… right away.’
“At that point I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system. He was in trouble Sunday and was crying out.”
Jackson did not go to the hospital as Lee had instructed, and four days later, the singer had died from a suspected heart attack.
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