Tito Jackson said he and his brothers and sisters conducted a military-style raid on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch to make him face up to his addiction painkillers, the UK Mirror reports in an exclusive.
The Jackson clan were more and more worried by the stories about Michael’s being hooked on prescription drugs. Tito, 55, said: “I never saw him on drugs. Not once. He deliberately did it away from us. He didn’t want his family to know anything about that part of him. He did almost everything in his power to make sure we didn’t know.”
Michael desperately tried to conceal his habit from his siblings. He asked his security detail to stop his own brothers and sisters from entering the fantasy land. In response, the clan decided to force entry. Tito said: “We had to act. It was me, my sisters Janet, Rebbie and La Toya and my brothers, Jackie and Randy. We bust right into the house and he was surprised to see us to say the least. We went into one of his private rooms and had a discussion with him.
“Some of us were crying. We kept asking him if it was true what we had heard that he was using drugs. He kept denying it. He said we were over-reacting. We also spoke to a doctor and he assured us it was not the situation. He said he was there to make sure Michael was healthy.”
In his first interview since the death of 50-year-old Michael, Tito said it took a couple of attempts to get through the security guards at Neverland and stage the intervention before the siblings were successful.
“They would block the road into Neverland with other vehicles so we couldn’t drive in, all kinds of crazy things. I don’t know whose instructions those were but that’s what happened. I went up there twice trying to get through before we finally did.”
Tito said: “We didn’t know what to believe. We didn’t take what Michael said as the truth. We talked about it again and again for hours but we just couldn’t get through to him. After that occasion we tried many times but his team of people just shut us out, they would not let us close. They literally shut us out. I don’t know if they were just doing their job or if it they were part of some kind of conspiracy. I do know that Michael would say to them ‘I don’t care who it is, don’t let anybody on my property if they haven’t called first.’”
Tito said he first learned of the painkillers as an issue in 1993 when Michael entered a rehabilitation clinic. They were thought to have been started due to the agony of burns treatment he received. Jackson famously burned his scalp while making a Pepsi commercial in 1984.
Source: Splash News
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