Conrad Murray former personal physician to the late Michael Jackson, took over care for Jackson shortly after arriving at the UCLA Medical Center, where the pop legend was later pronounced dead. Murray describes the scene in the hospital shortly after Jackson’s passing and the arrival of his family in part four of his exclusive interview with uinterview.
Murray recalls immediately thinking of Jackson’s children, Paris, Michael Jr., and Prince after their father’s death. Knowing that his passing would be especially traumatic for the children, he rounded up the children’s psychologists in the hospital, seeking counsel for how to best deliver the news. Grabbing Dileo, Jackson’s manager, Murray and the psychologists found the three children eaten pizza in a waiting room.
“They did cry, they stopped eating their pizza, they cried, we embraced them, gave them support,” Murray recounted to uInterview, before making a point to comment on the children’s braveness. “Then, there’s something about kids and their resilience, they recomposed, they went back to eating pizza.”
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Paris then asked to be brought to her grandmother, Katherine Jackson, who had been among the first to arrive in the hospital, and was waiting in another room. Murray reveals that Katherine Jackson did not wish to see Michael Jacksons body, despite insistence on the part of Murray and the other doctors. “I guess I respected that because maybe in her mind she wanted to remember him alive,” he suggested. It was what Katherine Jackson further refused to do that shocked the doctor. Murray describes Paris as seeming as if she wanted an “embrace” from her grandmother; her grandmother did not oblige. Murray further describes the coldness of Katherine Jackson and the extended family towards the children, which concerned him.
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“Lots of the other Jacksons came in, his brother Jermaine, cousins, Latoya came, she was there early also. None of them as I observed embraced any of the children. Walking around freely, certainly maybe lost in their own zones, I was concerned, like my goodness, what would happen to these children? From now, from tonight? Where would they sleep? When this day is over, where would they go?”
For Murray the strangeness continued. As more family members flowed in and out of the hospital, few asked questions of emotional concern, and merely attended to the formalities; he states that he worked with Randy Phillips and Jermaine Jackson to go over a statement to the press, one which asked for some privacy in this time of grief. But, Murray was amazed at the types of questions Jermaine asked him. “He mostly asked me…I mean sitting there I thought he would ask me more questions but he just talked about how he liked my accent, where I was from. Just odd. Very superficial.”
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Now several years and a prison sentence removed from the catastrophe, Murray is trying to put the events of that night behind him, and do some good in the process. “This has been a monumental catastrophe. Not just for me, but for my entire family, my children, my fiance, everybody. It’s been a disaster, to say the least,” he confessed. “But, what I can tell you is this: I would survive, it takes time, at this time I still do a lot of voluntary work in medicine.”
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