Karen Faye, Michael Jackson's makeup artist and friend of nearly three decades, said that in the days before his death the singer was paranoid, repeated himself continuously and was so cold she bundled him in a blanket, put him in front of a space heater and hugged him to try to stop the shivering.
"I am fearful he will make himself so sick he will die," Faye wrote to Frank Dileo, Jackson's former manager.
Faye made the comments during her testimony in the wrongful death suit filed by Jackson's mother and three children against Anschutz Entertainment Group, the promoter of his comeback concert series in London.
Her testimony ranged from the days she worked on Jackson's makeup and hair for the cover of Thriller, to the preparations for the ill-fated This Is It concerts the singer was preparing for when he died.
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