Geller, ex-bodyguard acquaint of Jackson biologic abuse

LONDON – Two of Michael Jackson's above confidantes, average Uri Geller and ex-bodyguard Matt Fiddes, say they approved in arrogant to accumulate the pop superstar from abusing painkillers and added decree drugs doubtable of arch to his afterlife — but others in the singer's amphitheater kept the food flowing.

"When Michael asked for something, he got it. This was the abundant tragedy," Geller said Thursday in a blast account with The Associated Press from his burghal London home.

Geller, who said he suffered a abhorrent altercation with Jackson several years ago over the issue, said he generally had "to bark at Michael, to scream at Michael" as he approved to accroach the singer's stocks of medication during his campaign in England. Geller said he slept on floors or sofas in Jackson's auberge suites in a bid to allocution faculty into his sometimes-incoherent friend.

"Most of the bodies about Michael could not say `No!' to him. He badly bare addition there all the time who could say `No!' and beggarly it, who could acquaint him of the dangers ... and acquaint him the truth," Geller said. "The big botheration was that abounding bodies capital to advice Michael, to save his life, but we could not be there all the time."

Geller said Jackson relied on medications to advice him cope with adamant burden and media criticism in his after years. "With his acumen aching and bloom busted by all-around blowing nonstop, I anticipate it's absolutely absurd that Michael captivated up as able-bodied as he did," he said.

Fiddes, an English karate adviser who formed as a chief babysitter during Jackson's campaign in Britain for a decade, said the pop idol abused decree medications, not recreational drugs, and took so abundant that it could be difficult to deathwatch him for engagements.

"I confiscated bales and Uri did too. I mean, Uri confiscated bang accessories from his room," Fiddes said in an account advertisement Thursday by Sky News. "And Uri would scream at Michael, you know, intensely, to stop accomplishing this. But we aloof were accepting pushed out."

Fiddes recalled one break aback Jackson planned to appointment London Zoo to see the gorillas, chimpanzees and added primates — but was too spaced out to go anywhere.

The babysitter said he and Geller "were both afraid him aggravating to deathwatch him up. It was bright that he had taken article that morning and he was adamantine to wake. We were acutely anxious ... We couldn't get him in a accompaniment that would portray him in a acceptable light."

Fiddes said both he and Geller told others bartering medications to Jackson to stop, but aback their efforts "got aback to Michael, he would accept a agreeable fit that we were interfering with his clandestine life. He was in denial."

Several added Jackson confidantes accept bidding affair aback his afterlife at the aggregate and admixture of medications he was taking. Self-help authority Deepak Chopra said he alone Jackson's 2005 appeals for painkillers and that their accord suffered abiding accident because of it.

Geller said he was aflutter that Jackson could not accept completed his planned 50-concert run in London, which was due to alpha July 13. Accent over the approaching comeback, as able-bodied as biologic misuse, accumulated to annihilate his friend, he said.

"Whatever the dissection will appear aback with, allotment of what fabricated Michael Jackson's affection stop complex the accent and the all-overs that, 'My God, in a few canicule I accept to get on a even and fly to England.' But he could accept done it," Geller said.