>>121131699SICK, Kenny Ortega (choreographer for ‘This Is It’) wrote a letter to Sony detailing how Jackson could not possibly perform. If I recall correctly the guy was addicted to every prescription drug known to man, heroin (provided at a doctor’s office where he’d often be photographed by press high as a kite), and needed the drug that killed him propofol as well as a condom catheter just to sleep.
When Sony caught wind of Michael’s poor health MJ was faced with either selling his catalog to pay off his hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, or performing despite his failing health. MJ started getting adrenaline shots under the care of Dr. Conrad Murray (who left his practice to tour with MJ creating a conflict of interest) culminating in his death,
MJ left the US after his trial in the 2000s and only returned in 2008 or so to Vegas for some reason, there’s a great movie/book presented from his bodyguard’s point of view that I thought was interesting. It was so bad in the end security wasn’t even getting paid and Michael’s cards were getting declined on shopping trips
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8qDM44fKk