Debbie Rowe: Michael Jackson Feared Pain and Trusted Doctors

Debbie Rowe: Michael Jackson Feared Pain and Trusted Doctors

Debbie Rowe arrives at court Aug. 14, 2013

The mother of Michael Jackson's two eldest children reluctantly testified for the defense Wednesday that Jackson inappropriately used Propofol at least 12 years before his death – and was warned that he was playing with fire. 

Debbie Rowe, called to the stand for lawyers defending concert promoter AEG against the Jackson family's wrongful death case, said Jackson used the potentially fatal anesthetic to help catch up on sleep in between show days when he brought his 1997 HIStory tour to Germany. 

The two were married from 1996 to 1999. 

Rowe, 54, Jackson's second wife, said Jackson was warned at the time that anesthetics were dangerous, and that using them outside of a clinical setting and to catch up on sleep was "not something you can do all the time."  

Jackson, she said, "was more worried about sleeping" and had been under anesthesia so many times, it didn't scare him. She also said the anesthetic was only referred to as Diprivan, which she only recently learned is another name for Propofol.

Rowe had been a medical assistant to Jackson's dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein. She said Jackson started seeing Klein to treat his acne and later for scarring from burns he sustained shooting a Pepsi commercial.

She said it was during those later treatments that Klein discovered Jackson had Lupus.

Rowe testified that Jackson placed too much trust in his various doctors, whom she thought were trying to out-do each other in the pain medications they gave the singer.

Jackson "needed somebody to be there for him ... to not look at him as a cash cow," said Rowe, who frequently burst into tears on the witness stand as she recalled the singer's fear of pain and trust of physicians.

"Michael had a very low pain tolerance and his fear of pain was incredible," Rowe said. "I think the doctors took advantage of him that way."

In court, Rowe became frustrated at times with AEG's attorneys. "You're making it sound like he was going in all the time [for procedures that involved drugs or sedation], and he wasn't," Rowe said tearfully as she stretched her hands wide apart for emphasis. "You're talking about a 12-year period here." 

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Debbie Rowe To Testify Michael Jackson Abused Propofol

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Michael Jackson was not only addicted to powerful drugs 12 years before he died ... at least twice in the late 90s doctors misused a drug similar to Propofol so MJ could sleep through the night ... and we've learned that's exactly what MJ's former wife Debbie Rowe will tell the jury today.

Sources familiar with Debbie Rowe's testimony tell TMZ ... Rowe -- who will be called to the stand by AEG Live -- views herself as a hostile witness, because she feels AEG is largely responsible for MJ's death.

We've learned Rowe will testify ... in 1997 doctors administered Diprivan (a form of Propofol) to Michael in a Munich, Germany hotel room.  We're told Rowe will say the drug was administered specifically so Michael could sleep.  There was a full medical staff present and MJ slept under the influence of the drug for 8 hours.  This occurred on 2 days, either consecutive or 1 day apart.

The testimony is significant because AEG is trying to show MJ was the master of his own fate and had misused Propofol for years.

But we've learned Rowe will also say while she was married to MJ she never saw him as a raging drug addict.  She will testify he was addicted to Demerol ... which he used to deal with the pain and anxiety from scalp surgeries after being horribly burned.  She says when she left Michael in July, 1997, he was not an out-of-control addict.  In fact, he had gone to rehab and was open about it.

As TMZ first reported, Rowe injected Michael in the buttocks with Demerol and Vistaril several times while she worked for Dr. Arnold Klein -- MJ's closest doctor and confidante.  Rowe had no idea in the last months of MJ's life Klein injected the singer with Demerol scores of times.

We've learned if asked ... Rowe will say she was horrified when she saw a TMZ video of Michael looking totally out of it as he left Dr. Klein's office days before he died.  The day MJ passed, Rowe will testify she called Klein and said, "You killed him.  What did you give him?" 

We're told Rowe wants to tell the jury ... when the "This Is It" tour was announced and she heard the breakneck concert schedule, she told her shrink, "They're [AEG] gonna kill him."

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