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Death-wish Jacko had suicide note

15 July 2009 17:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Michael Jackson kept a suicide note with him in his final months, it was revealed last night, APA reports quoting Daily Star.
Pals said the King of Pop â€œoften overdosedâ€ and had been trying to kill himself for a decade.
One said: â€œWeâ€™re surprised he even made it to 50â€ â€“ his age when he died.
Sister La Toya, 53, believes Jacko was murdered by hangers-on who were after his millions.
But police have also been told the singer injected prescription drugs and may have killed himself.
Frail Jacko was pressured into approving his planned 50-date comeback after agreeing to just 10 dates, said dad Joe.
Insiders believe the financially struggling star â€œcouldnâ€™t face his problemsâ€ and wanted a way out.
He would keep the suicide note in his pocket and overdosed, they added. â€œMichael always talked about dying young,â€ one said. â€œHe wrote suicide notes then tore them up. He kept one with him â€“ he often read it.
â€œHe wanted everyone to know how sad he was.â€
Another pal said heâ€™d wanted to end his life ever since he was humiliated by child abuse claims in the 1990s.
Michael Laperruque, a retired LA officer and security aide for the star, said doctors had tried to ween him off Demerol painkiller, suspected to be the cause of his death last month.
One medic â€œwas upset with Jackson because he had been self-injectingâ€, according to notes in Jackoâ€™s official 2005 molestation trial file.
Housekeeper Kristine Foumier said his drug bingeing dated back more than a decade.
She told cops: â€œPeople would say, â€˜His eyes were rolling and he wouldnâ€™t know what he was talking about.â€™ He had good periods and bad periods. When he had a bad period, he had a bad period.â€
Joe said his son was â€œpushed too hardâ€ in the lead-up to his dates at Londonâ€™s O2 arena, where hundreds of fans have been paying respect.
He said: â€œMichael told me he agreed to 10 shows. But they went and added all these others.
â€œNo artist can do those many shows back to back like that.â€
The coroner believes the cause of death will be revealed this week.
We told yesterday how he predicted his death to daughter Paris, 11.
Michaelâ€™s mum Katherine, 79, who has custody of children Paris, Prince 12, and Prince Michael II, seven, lost a bid to gain control of his estate.
The singerâ€™s actress pal Elizabeth Taylor, 77, was last night being treated in an LA hospital as she struggles to come to terms with his death.