Jackson Had Skin Cancer, Health Problems, Before Death

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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General Anaesthetic Found at Jackson’s Home

Investigators have discovered the powerful drug Propofol, most commonly used as a general anaesthetic, at Michael Jackson’s Los Angeles home, sources have revealed to celebrity website TMZ.com.

Coincidentally, Propofol – also known as Diprivan – is the same drug that Jackson himself petitioned his former nurse Cherilyn Lee for whilst she was under his employ. A member of the Jackson entourage also contacted Lee four days before the King of Pop’s shock death, asking for the drug once more.

The drug is described as an “extremely dangerous and potent” substance that is only available to medical personnel.

“There is no conceivable way this drug can be properly prescribed for home use,” the source said.

So, how did Jackson get his hands on a drug meant for hospital use only? That’s the million dollar question the investigators looking into his death would like answered.

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Jackson Made Himself Sick, Says Nurse

The speculation surrounding Michael Jackson’s death is rife, but the most shocking report so far has come from a former nurse who cared for the ailing singer in his last months, who claims that the King of Pop was forcing illness upon himself to avoid tour commitments.

Cherilyn Lee, a nurse for over 20 years, has told CNN how the Thriller singer demanded she give him the powerful sedative Diprivan. Lee refused, but not before both Jackson and his entourage had hounded her about obtaining the drug so the 50-year-old could “get some sleep.”

“I told him this medication is not safe,” Lee said.

“He said, ‘I just want to get some sleep. You don’t understand. I just want to be able to be knocked out and go to sleep.’

“I told him – and it is so painful that I actually felt it in my whole spirit – ‘if you take that you might not wake up.’”

According to Lee, Jackson’s staff contacted her just four days before the singer’s tragic death, requesting the drug again. It had been more than three months since she’d ceased employment with the popstar.

While Lee couldn’t account for why any of Jackson’s entourage would contact her after so long to make such a request, a source from inside the singer’s camp has revealed that Jackson was “trying to make himself sick” in order to avoid playing the complete set of 50 shows his people had signed him up for.

“Like a child who doesn’t want to go to school, Michael thought he could get away from his obligations if he had a ‘note from the doctor,’” entertainment reporter Gerald Posner explained.

Jackson knew, according to Posner, that he would not be “financially penalised” for missing performances if he was medically unfit to go on stage.

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