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Taking to sleep. some of the things he was taking, i can' pronounce the words. every time i saw him, he was 1,000% coherent. >> michael jackson's addiction runs deeper and many in his inner circle were aware. >> certainly wasn't worried about concealing it. >> gotham chop practice was a personal friend of jackson's. >> new endless doctors and how to manipulate certain systems and also had many doctors who were always willing to write new prescriptions and just wanted to be around him and they wanted that aura of his attention. >> gotment that's father, deepak chop chopra, is said jackson wante...

Prescription for a narcotic. >> i said i wasn't going to write a prescription. i confronted him. he started to cry. he said, you don't understand. i'm in a lot of pain. >> chop practice fear for jackson's health and with a member of michael's family, he arranged for an intervention. >> so upset, angry. the temper,ichael's family, he for an intervention. >> so upset, angry. the temper, left the room. >> according to biograh fer, randy tab bore rely, jackson was introduced to prescription drugs in 1984. jackson's scalp was severely burned during the fille.willing of this pepsi commercial. ♪ >>...

The fatal dose, it was jackson himself. >> when dr. murray left the room, michael jackson self-administered a dose of propofol, that with the lorazepam, created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly. >> they said it was the final fatal move. dr. robert waldman reviewed records from jackson's dermatologist n the months before his death, jackson got frequent treatments and lots of painkillers. >> i believe there is evidence that he was probably addicted to opioids. >> for the jackson family, they were hard words to hear. >> and they sat in that courtroom and listened to testimony...

Jackson's crippling insomnia. >> he knew that that was the only thing that worked for him. i constantly cautioused him. >> cautioned him, and claims murray, tried to ween him from the drug. still, jackson pressed for propofol on the day he died. >> he said, i can't function if i don't sleep. so i agreed that i would switch over to the propofol. >> then, murray said, he sat at jackson's side. >> i monitored him, saw his oxygen saturation, heart rate, everything looked stable. then i needed to go to the bathroom. i came back to his bedside and i was stunned in the sense that he wasn't breathing....

>> i'll be performing the songs my fans want to hear. >> but was michael physically up to the challenge? both michael and aeg had a lot on the line. >> it was his comeback. it was his renaissance. 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. and see you in july. >> but there were questions about whether jackson was ready. kenny ortega, the director for "this is it," called a private meeting at jackson's home. aeg ceo, randy phillips, attended the meeting. >> kenny was concerned that he wasn't c...