The big news in the sad, crazy drama that is the death of Michael Jackson is his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, revealing that Jackson did not father his two eldest children. Rowe admits she was artificially inseminated with an anonymous donor. Also, she does not want custody of the kids, and does not expect to see them again. “I offered him my womb,” says Rowe, “It was a gift.” Just. Wow.
While the second autopsy ordered by the Jackson family is complete, news of Jackson’s poor health is leaking out to the press. Jackson’s nanny, says she had to pump his stomach many times after he mixed too much medication, and he became outraged when his family tried to intervene. He was also frequently broke, with the nanny often paying for expenses out of her own pocket.
Jackson’s close friend, Deepak Chopra says Jackson not only suffered from the skin disorder Vitiligo, but also the auto-immune disease, Lupus.
The lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor who was with Jackson when he died, says the pop star still had a faint pulse when the doctor found him, and that Murray “has never prescribed nor administered Demerol to Michael Jackson…Not ever. Not Oxycontin [either].”
Dr. Murray completed a 3 hour interview with police Saturday night, and provided no “smoking gun.” His lawyer claims Murray had only been treating Jackson since last month, and is owed $300,000 from the concert promoter, AEG.
Kenny Ortega, the director of Jackson’s ‘This Is It!’ shows, is ‘imaging’ a ‘We Are the World’ -style collaboration of artists to pay tribute to Jackson using some of the choreography, costumes and video shot for his upcoming shows.
Father, Joe Jackson was set to appear at tonight’s BET awards, which had been completely overhauled as a tribute to MJ.
Janet Jackson has been named the executor of Jackson’s vastly complicated estate. Jackson is said to have a secret library of 100 recorded songs he made for his children. Janet Jackson and her brothers have been offered a tribute tour to celebrate the life of their brother.
Jackson may be buried at Neverland, but the neighbors aren’t crazy about the estate being transformed into a Graceland-like tourist attraction.
And if you missed it the first time around, NBC will re-run the 2003 Martin Bashir documentary, Living with Michael Jackson–the program that led to the child molestation charges against Jackson–on Monday. But since we’ll all be watching the Top 13 sing MJ tunes on Fox, you can catch it on MSNBC–the cable channel is rerunning the special 6 times over the next couple of weeks.
My thoughts… It seemed to me that Michael was constantly trying to run from himself.. thinking that if he totally changed himself he could just be someone else… I dont know. The whole thing is sad.
I will always love MJ’s music and be awed by his talent. I just wish he could’ve gone out on a high note – even if it was just one successful show on his new tour.
I completely agree.
I am sorry, but Michael was not forced to make those outrageous comments.
It would be ideal if Janet raised the children with the Nanny’s help AND visitation rights would be given to Debbie. That would require a lot of love and cooperation from all involved!
I also watched, ‘Living With Michael Jackson’ and would like to know if any doctor or nurse would allow anyone to take a newly born baby home? Michael claimed that when his daughter, Paris was born he immediately took her home still covered with the placenta. He stated to Bashir that he cleaned the baby himself.
How could this possibly happen? Paris had to be weighed and her APGAR score recorded. This is the physical examination of a newborn in the delivery room. A follow-up exam and score is done a short while later. It is my belief that Michael lied (or believed in his mind this happened). He was questioned twice about this because the baby cannot go home with placenta on her body.
If he lied about something so important as this, what else did he lie about?
(MJ, I posted this on the wrong thread. I then tried to delete it but that didn’t work.)
Agreed with Grammie Kari. Also, when you cut the umbilical cord, you’re CUTTING THE BABY AWAY FROM THE PLACENTA, which had been the baby’s major source of nourishment in the uterus.
That would mean that MJ would have had to also had remembered to grab the placenta along with Paris, which would’ve been pretty stupid if he were in a rush. In addition, the placenta is often delivered 30 MINUTES TO TWO HOURS AFTER the baby is born (that’s why it’s also known as the “afterbirth”) and the cord is cut. Either the mom pushes it out or, in the case of a Cesarean, the surgeon(s) take it out (curretage). The doctors then must check it to make sure it is intact to prevent infecting the mom–placental infections can sometimes cause massive bleeding and even death.
I don’t understand why Martin Bashir, himself a father of three, didn’t call MJ on this gross fabrication–if even for the simple fact that, minus all of the biological detail I’ve provided above (sorry, I have a friend who’s a Bradley childbirth instructor LOL), MJ would’ve had to wait for Debbie to deliver the placenta or the doctors to remove it before “rushing out” so expeditiously with Paris. It would’ve been near impossible for him to be washing placenta from his daughter’s body at home if he were in such a rush; the placenta would most likely still be at the hospital.
Most likely is that MJ mistakened the vernix that usually covers a baby right after his/her birth for the placenta. Vernix is pretty nasty stuff, and if the delivery was a C-section, the baby probably had more of it on her (C-sections prevent the vernix from being “swabbed off” when the baby’s pushed through the birth canal in a vaginal delivery). It didn’t seem like MJ really had an indepth knowledge of childbirth when he was talking with Martin Bashir IMO, but that could just be a “guy thing.” I mean, ewww. Lions and tigers and vagina-side seating, oh my! :-p
Anyway, that’s your childbirth lesson 101. G’night, folks!