Jacko was on cocktail of drugs months before death
Washington (ANI): King of pop Michael Jackson had been taking a cocktail of seven prescription drugs that caused the cardiac arrest that took his life, if reports are to be believed. The legendary star passed away last night at the age of 50 after he suffered a heart attack at his home in Holmby Hills, California, and failed to recover even after repeated resuscitation attempts.
Celebrity
magazine
Life
&
Style
has
now
reported
that
Jackson
was
addicted
to
prescription
drugs
in
the
months
before
his
death.
A
source
has
revealed
that
Jackson
had
been
popping
pills,
including
anti-anxiety
drugs
Xanax
and
Zoloft
and
painkiller
Demerol,
for
weeks
before
he
lost
his
life.
An
insider
has
revealed
that
the
'Thriller'
hit-maker
took
a
suspected
overdose
of
drugs
on
Thursday
morning,
which
caused
respiratory
and
cardiac
arrest.
In
an
interview
with
CNN,
Jackson's
family
lawyer,
Brian
Oxman,
commented
that
the
icon
was
killed
by
an
abuse
of
prescription
drugs,
and
compared
his
death
to
that
of
tragic
star
Anna
Nicole
Smith.
He has claimed that Jackson's death is down to the people who surrounded him before his untimely demise."I believe (his manager) Frank DiLeo was with him at the time (of his heart attack), that is what I have been told," Contactmusic quoted him as saying.
"This family has been trying for months and months and months to take care of Michael Jackson. The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him. If you think the case of Anna Nicole Smith was an abuse, that is nothing compared to what has taken place in the life of Michael Jackson."
"I do not know what medications he was taking, but the reports that we have received within the family are that they were extensive. I don't know the cause of all this. But this is something that I feared. This is a case of abuse of medications, unless the cause is something else. This was something which I feared and something which I warned about. Where there is smoke there is fire," he added.