Brian Oxman, Jackson family attorney, said he voiced grave fears that the King of Pop could suffer the same fate as tragic Playboy model Anna Nicola Smith, who died from overdosing on prescription drugs in 2007.
“I said to them (his family members) that if this situation arises where Michael Jackson perishes because of medications – my words were that if one day he wakes up and he’s dead because of these medications – I will not hold my tongue, I will speak out and I will speak out loud.
“I had warned everyone. I said one day, we’re going to have this experience. And when Anna Nicole Smith passed away, I said we cannot have this kind of thing with Michael Jackson.
“I don’t know what caused his death, but I feared this day and here we are.”
Oxman said Jackson’s use of painkillers started back in 1984 after his hair accidentally set alight while filming a TV commercial.
“It caused him such pain, he didn’t like to feel discomfort so he started taking pain medications then.
“He also fell off a stage and cracked a vertebrae in his back, and he also broke his leg.
“Those two things were constant sources of pain, they made him fall down it was so painful and he took the medications because of that pain. It became part of his life.”
The 50-year-old musical superstar died on Thursday, just as he was preparing for a series of 50 concerts starting July 13 at London’s 02 arena.
Source: Splash News
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