Washington, May 4(ANI): Thinking he was addicted to painkillers, Michael Jackson's family attempted to stage many interventions for the late King of Pop to try and get him to enter rehab, a Los Angeles investigator - citing discussions with Michael's mother Katherine - testified Thursday.
Detective, Orlando Martinez, took the stand in the family's ongoing 'wrongful death trial with concert promoter AEG Live', saying that the Jackson family matriarch has claimed that her son once dismissed her concerns, saying that he wasn't hooked on powerful prescription medications, Radar Online reported.
Martinez said that he spoke with Katherine both at the hospital on the day of Jackson's June 25, 2009 death, as well as in a follow-up interview six months later, when he quizzed her on "some things regarding family meetings about addiction.
"Katherine said the family tried to help him but he would have nothing to do with it - she had asked Michael if he was taking any drugs, and he denied it," Martinez said.
He said that the concerned mother believed the addiction sprang from treatment for Jackson's back pain.
Katherine also told the investigator that her first run-in with Dr. Conrad Murray came at the hospital the day following Jackson's death.
Martinez testified that the 'Heal The World' singer's late manager, Frank Dileo, alerted Murray to Jackson's waining health just five days before his death. (ANI)
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