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Perfectionist. off stage a legend with a sense of humor. >> making big money decisions and he would lean over to me and say who is your favorite three stooges and i would say what? oh yeah, i don't like that? i like mo. >> beneath the surface, concerns from the very moment the concert tour was announced. jackson was pushing himself to the brink. >> 50 dates at 50 years old? that's a lot of dates. i kept saying i hope he gets a physical trainer. someone to really work him out and make sure he is healthy and prepared. >> germane jackson says his little brother was ready. >> he could have did 200...

As dawn broke at 100 north carolwood drive on june 25th, 200 2009, still awake and apparently restless, he wasn't taking a no. >> he didn't like to be told no on what to do. that is a huge issue. anyone who knew michael and worked for michael will tell you this is a man who lived his life on his own terms. >> police investigators say dr. murray finally relented. at 10:40 a.m., he gave him the drug through an iv drip and jackson finally went to sleep. according to the search warrant affidavit, at 10:50 a.m., dr. murray got up to go to the bathroom. a few minutes later, murray says he returned t...

Is it" was on stage that last night. >> he looked back at me, after we did one number and he looked at me as if to say, "yeah, i'm michael jackson and i got this." you know, he looked really good and i teased some of the dancers when i see them because mj was 50 years old and they're like half his age and he still was wearing them out. >> reporter: on stage, always a perfectionist. off stage, a legend with a sense of humor. >> he's making big-money decisions, then woe lean over to me and just say silly stuff like, who's your favorite three stooges. i go, what, mj? oh, no within don't like that...

That's not an exaggeration. woe have. >> he was plagued with insomnia for years. he was just plagued with this horrible, inability to go to sleep. and he would rely upon doctors to provide him with medication so that he could sleep. >> according to police, jackson's final hours, beyond these windows, involved a cocktail of drugs, allegedly administered by dr. murray. based on the affidavit, dr. murray's efforts to get jackson to sleep began with a 10 milligram tablet of valium around 1:00 a.m., that didn't work. so dr. murray injected the singer with an antianxiety drug. by 3:00 a.m., however,...

>> 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 and he would not take it, and that ultimately he did take some because the pain was so great, but that it was a big issue. >> when do you think the drug use started? >> i believe that a lot of it had to do with the stress of the 1993 allegations. >> in 1993, michael jackson was acc...