Drug-addled pop icon Michael Jackson would be alive today had his father not been blocked from seeing him in his final weeks, the family lawyer has claimed. A terrified Joe Jackson confided that he feared his son was going to overdose a month before his shock death from drugs on June 25, 2009, but could not intervene. The music family’s patriarch told the King of Pop’s friend and lawyer Brian Oxman of his deepest fears for his frail son, who was poised for a career comeback in London with his This Is It residency.
Today, on the 15th anniversary of the pop icon’s premature death, Brian reveals how Joe suspected his son was using medication and drugs, leaving him too unwell to perform his comeback gigs in the capital. The Thriller star had been rehearsing for his long-awaited return to the stage at the O2 Arena when he was found unresponsive in his Los Angeles home on June 25, 2009. With less than three weeks to go before his first sell-out show, he died from cardiac arrest, caused by a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose.
He was 50. In the lead-up to the gigs, Jackson’s father and other family members were determined to have a “heart-to-heart” with Jacko over their fears. However, the singer kept anyone he suspected of trying to stage an intervention away from him during his last month alive in LA.
Brian, who has represented the interests of the Jackson family members since the 1980s, believes that “Joe would have been the only one to have got through to Michael.
