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His rebirth on stage. after so many years of being out of the spotlight a lot of people were wondering if he could pull this off. >> this is it. see you in july. >> there were questions about whether jackson was ready. kenny ortega called a private meeting at jackson's home. >> kenny was concerned that he wasn't coming to enough rehearsals. michael explained that he needed kenny to build the house and he would come in and pain the front door. >> he was too sleepy and taking medications which made him tired and unable to perform. unless he got his act together, the producers, the promoters

The stress took a toll, even though he was cleared of all charges. what did you see in his eyes? >> i could see in his eyes he was dying, that he was gone. already on verdict day he was not there. he was so vacant. >> following the verdict in 2005, jackson spent the next four years focused on his children. six months before his death, michael jackson met nurse practitioner sherilyn lee. she came to jackson's home to treat one of his kids for a cold. one day he asked her to stay over and watch his sleeping patterns. >> this was 10:30, 11:00 at night. i said call me so i can kind of monitor and ...

This timeline suggests more than an hour had passed since jackson was found not breathing. it is a time line that murray and his attorney fiercely contest. >> i think it's clear that what they are doing is hypothesizing about the timeline. that's not what happened. that's not what the doctor told him. >> reporter: what is not in dispute is this. >> we have a gentleman here not breathing. he needs help. he's not breathing and we are trying to pump him but he's not breathing. >> how old is he? >> he's 50 years old, sir. >> at approximately 12:22 p.m., jackson security guard alberto alvarez made ...

Milligram tablet of valium around 1:30 a.m. it didn't work. according to the affidavit, dr. murray injected the singer with an anti-anxiety drug. by 3:00 a.m., however, jackson was still awake, so murray told police he tried another drug, a sedative. that didn't work either. what jackson really wanted according to murray was the anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed c...

Confronted him, he started to cry. he said, you don't understand. i'm in a lot of pain. >> he says he feared for michael jackson's health so along with a member of michael's family, he arranged for an intervention. >> he was so upset, angry, burst into a temper, left the room. >> according to biographer, randy taraborrelli, jackson was first introduced to prescription drugs in 1984. ♪ jackson's scalp was severely burned during a filming of this pepsi commercial. >> i was at the hospital that night, and i remember the doctors saying that they were trying to give him pain medication back then ...