"Mr. Jackson had asked a nurse three months ago for a powerful sedative, diprivan, that is used in hospitals, according to Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse who had been working as a nutritionist with the singer. Ms. Lee told Good Morning America on Wednesday that she refused to find an anesthesiologist to give it to Mr. Jackson because it was unsafe.
Ms. Lee recalled her conversation with the singer three months ago, and what she told him: "The problem with you telling me that you want to be knocked out — those were his words — is that you might not wake up the next morning. You don't want to do that."
Ms. Lee said that Mr. Jackson responded: "No, my doctor told me it's safe. It works quick and it's safe, as long as somebody is here to monitor me and wake me up, I'll be okay."
Four days before Mr. Jackson died, she got a frantic phone call from an aide to Mr. Jackson asking her to come see him immediately.
"I could hear Michael in the background. 'Tell her, tell her that one side of my body is hot, hot and one side is cold, is very cold.'"
Ms. Lee told the aide that Mr. Jackson needed to go to the hospital. "At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system because, that's all he wanted was to sleep.""
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