'Sorry kids... Dad's dead': Prince Jackson reveals how Conrad Murray broke news of King of Pop's passing
Michael Jackson's eldest son recalled the moment Conrad Murray informed him of the pop star's death.
Prince,
16, took to the the stand for the first time in the Jackson family's
wrongful death lawsuit against AEG in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
He told the court Murray simply said: 'Sorry kids. Dad's dead.'
The teen is a witness in a lawsuit
claiming AEG negligently hired Murray, the doctor who was later
convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson an overdose of
the anesthetic propofol.
According to TMZ, Prince was in the
lounge room of the family's Holmby Hills mansion when his father went
into cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009.
He recalled hearing screams and Murray called him upstairs. Prince said
his father was 'half hanging out of the bed' while the doctor was trying to resuscitate him.
He
said his sister Paris, 15, who is being treated following a suicide attempt
earlier this month, suffered the most in the wake of their father's death.
He recalled she screamed that she 'wanted her daddy' while Murray was performing CPR.
He said: 'She was my dad's princess. She definitely is dealing with [his death] in her own way.'
He also revealed his father was
excited about going back on tour before his death but wasn't happy about
the terms of the ill-fated shows.
He
told jurors his father wanted more time to rehearse and had several
tense phone conversations with promoters of his This Is It shows that
sometimes ended with his father in tears.
He said his father remarked after one of the conversations: 'They're going to kill me,' but he did not elaborate.
AEG denies it hired the physician or bears any responsibility for the entertainer's death.
Prince
testified that he saw AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips at the family's
rented mansion in a heated conversation with Murray in the days before
his father died. The teenager said he saw Phillips grabbing Murray's
elbow.
Phillips 'looked aggressive to me,' Prince testified.
Michael wasn't at home at the time and was probably at rehearsals, Prince said.
For
the first time, the teenage publicly provided details about the day his
father died. Prince testified that he saw Murray performing CPR on his
father, who was hanging halfway off a bed.
It appeared his father's eyes were rolled up in the back of his head, Prince told jurors.
Prince's eyes appeared red as he recalled being told by Murray at a hospital that his father was dead.
Click here for more
No comments:
Post a Comment