BET.com--Conrad Murray has dramatically revealed how Michael Jackson’s heartbroken daughter broke down after his death and sobbed: “You save lots of patients and you couldn’t save my dad.”
During a grilling by police two days later, he revealed how tearful Paris, now 13, wailed: “I will wake up in the morning, and I won’t be able to see my Daddy.”
She said to him: “Dr Murray, you said you save a lot of patients, you know, you save people with heart attacks and you couldn’t save my dad.”
“I know you tried your best, but I’m really sad.”
The two-and-a-half-hour taped interview was played for the jury at Los Angeles Superior Court on the eighth day of his trial for involuntary manslaughter.
If, as is rumoured, Murray, 58, does not take the stand, the tape could be his only testimony to the trial. It revealed for the first time his version of what happened in Jacko’s bedroom on June 25 2009, the day the star died.
He told how he met Michael, 50, at his LA mansion at just after 1am after the star’s final rehearsal for his London comeback concerts at the O2 Arena.
But he claimed the grouchy star threatened to scrap the gigs if Murray refused him drugs to help him get to sleep. He claimed Jacko ranted: “Tomorrow I am going to have to cancel my performances. I am going to have to cancel my trip because I can’t function if I don’t get the sleep,”
When the cocktail of drugs failed to help, Murray says Jacko begged him for some “milk” – his code word for powerful hospital anaesthetic propofol.
The doctor, who had been giving him the drug nightly for two months, recalled him saying: ”Please, please give me some milk. I know milk works for me.”
After administering propofol, Jacko fell asleep, although Murray said he was not snoring as he usually did. “I got up and went to the bathroom and when I came back he wasn’t breathing. It was only about two minutes,” he said on the tape played in court. Murray said he immediately tried CPR and mouth-to-mouth to try and save his boss, but could not find a pulse. And in an attempt to explain why it took more than 20 minutes to call an ambulance, he blamed it on faulty phones.
His account is contradicted by the testimony of other witnesses, including a paramedic and a bodyguard, who detailed the doctor’s delay in calling for help while he hid propofol bottles.
And prosecutors also allege Murray was too busy calling his many mistresses to notice the singer was dying
His live-in girlfriend Nicole Alvarez, 29, who met Murray in a Las Vegas strip club, has already told the court he phoned her from the ambulance as the star lay dead beside him. Two other women also say he called them.
Tearful Murray told the jury yesterday: “I love Mr Jackson. He was my friend and he opened up to me. I wanted to help him. He was a single parent. I wanted to give him the best chance.”
Murray denies involuntary manslaughter. The trial goes on.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Sunday, October 9th 2011 at 1:20PM
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