Couldn’t sleep in Neverland bed after court case Said he was persecuted like Jesus Lashed out if offered help for addiction JACKO’S
Dead singer could be ‘ringer’
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Pal Brian done mentally and physically. Michael lost his faith in people. He would ask, ‘Why would they do this to me? It is a witch-hunt’.”
The star died in June 2009 from a painkiller overdose. But Oxman says his pill hell began years earlier after burning his scalp while filming a Pepsi ad in 1984.
He then suffered chronic back and leg pain from performing. Oxman adds: “I urged
Michael to get help, but he was always like ‘Brian, I got it handled’. I said, ‘Your liver will give out, though’ and when I argued he would just say, ‘Don’t scare me, Brian’ and go quiet.
“But then he’d focus on my weight, saying ‘Don’t eat carbohydrates, don’t eat sugar. Don’t tell me I am addicted. You are 10 times more addicted than me’.”
Jacko’s dad Joe, 89, died in June – never forgiven by fans for dishing out beatings to a young THREE songs on the Jacko album Michael, released after his death, may have been sung by an impersonator. Sony asked the LA Appeal Court to throw out a fan’s lawsuit accusing the music giant of fraud. The judge refused after Sony admitted it couldn’t be sure if it WAS the star on lead vocals. The case continues. Michael during his days with the Jackson 5.
But Oxman insists the pair had made their peace. He says: “Their relationship was far better than the world ever knew. He loved his dad and thanked God for him.
“He would tell me, ‘My dad is always there for me. When you are on stage, I rely on what I learned at 12 from my dad. And I cherish the day my father made me do these things’.”
Jackson was married twice – to Lisa Marie Presley, 50, and Debbie Rowe, 59, mum of two of his three kids.
Oxman reveals: “Michael was absolutely in love with Lisa Marie and she loved him. Anyone who claims it was an arranged marriage is talking nonsense. He’d