Late April/May 1995: Michael Jackson visits Dr. Arnold Klein clinic, in Beverly Hills, for dermatologic and scalp repair surgeries. Lisa Marie Presley suspects he relapsed. Somewhere in this period, Debbie Rowe offers to have Michael’s children, again
“My mother started sensing there was drug use on Michael's part, and she started seeing behaviors that she recognized from her father. He began to be more secretive around her. She told me that she thought he was protecting his addiction. When she started asking more questions about his addiction, it would cause a lot of friction. They began fighting a lot, and he would ice her for days. I know there was a really bad fight-somebody threw a plate of fruit at somebody. They were two big spirits and they both had big tempers.
Michael started going to the doctor's office a lot. I'd pick him up and he would be really out of it. I think it was Demerol shots. He said he needed it because of his scalp injury, but I knew there was a longer story to it, that it was big. One of his family members told me that it was a pill habit.”
— Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough, from “From Here to the Great Unknown” (2024)
“There were times when I would pick him up from a certain doctor’s office and he would not be coherent. There was some behaviour now looking back at it. I knew that was because of injections, because they were painful and he would need certain things because he needed to… […] Injections or whatever, various dermatological… […] Skin [disease], various things he needed.”
— Lisa Marie Presley Oprah Interview (2010)
Relax, this won't hurt you / Before I put it in / Close your eyes and count to ten / Don't cry, I won't convert you / There's no need to dismay / Close your eyes and drift away / Demerol, Demerol / Oh God, he's taking Demerol Demerol, Demerol / Oh God, he's taking Demerol / He's tryin' hard to convince her / To give more of what he had / Today, he wants it twice as bad / Don't cry, I won't resent you / Yesterday, you had his trust / Today, he's taking twice as much
— Michael Jackson; “Morphine” from “Blood on the Dance Floor: HiStory in the Mix” (1997) (first recorded in 1994, concluded in 1997)
Photo: Dr. Arnold Klein and his medical assistant Debbie Rowe at his clinic in Beverly Hills (November, 1993)
