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Michael Jackson
Accounts of Michael Jackson's drug use fueled speculation Wednesday about the cause of his death, including one from his former nurse who said he opposed recreational drugs but sought a powerful drug to overcome insomnia.
The accounts emerged as a will Jackson wrote in 2002 was submitted to a Los Angeles court.
Look back on Jackson's career
Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, told The Associated Press that Jackson was plagued by insomnia and pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be dangerous. She said she received a frantic phone call from a member of Jackson's staff on the Sunday before his death that made her worry he had obtained the drug, Diprivan, or another powerful insomnia drug.
"He called and was very frantic and said, '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 is cold. It's very cold,'" Lee said.
She said she told the staffer Jackson had to go to the hospital, but he didn't go.
"At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system," she said. "He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out."
Michael Jackson
Accounts of Michael Jackson's drug use fueled speculation Wednesday about the cause of his death, including one from his former nurse who said he opposed recreational drugs but sought a powerful drug to overcome insomnia.
The accounts emerged as a will Jackson wrote in 2002 was submitted to a Los Angeles court.
Look back on Jackson's career
Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, told The Associated Press that Jackson was plagued by insomnia and pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be dangerous. She said she received a frantic phone call from a member of Jackson's staff on the Sunday before his death that made her worry he had obtained the drug, Diprivan, or another powerful insomnia drug.
"He called and was very frantic and said, '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 is cold. It's very cold,'" Lee said.
She said she told the staffer Jackson had to go to the hospital, but he didn't go.
"At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system," she said. "He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out."