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Sleepless Jackson Begged for Sedative
first asked for it three months ago, but, after consulting with a doctor, warned Jackson it could kill him. "'I look at you Michael and I've been around you long enough now, I love you as family. I would not give this to anyone,'" Lee said she told Jackson. "I said, 'This is not a safe medicine, please don't take this.'" Lee said Jackson had often complained of not being able to sleep more than a few hours at a time and the man who would often watch Donald Duck cartoons in bed, trying to sleep. "'The problem with you telling me you want to be knocked out,'" She says she told him, is "'you might not wake up the next morning. You don't want that.'" But Jackson, she said, was convinced he'd be OK, telling her that his doctors had said it was...
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11.23.09 - Updated 6:36pm ET
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