Transcript of heavily-slurring Michael Jackson audio
Dr. Conrad Murray looks toward the gallery during his trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson in Los Angeles on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO
LOS ANGELES—Here is the transcript of an audio clip of a heavily-slurring Michael Jackson, played Wednesday at the trial of the star’s doctor Conrad Murray.
A shorter version was played on the trial’s first day last week. It is not clear if the extended clip starts at the beginning of the conversation, recorded on Murray’s iPhone on May 10, 2009, six weeks before Jackson’s death.
The transcript of Jackson’s words, which are at times almost incoherent, was provided in court.
Jackson: “Elvis didn’t do it. Beatles didn’t do it. We have to be phenomenal. When people leave this show, when people leave my show, I want them to say, ‘I’ve never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. I’ve never seen nothing like this. Go, it’s amazing. He’s the greatest entertainer in the world.’
“I’m taking that money, a million children, children’s hospital, the biggest in the world. Michael Jackson’s Children’s Hospital. Gonna have a movie theater, game room. Children are depressed.
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Jackson: “Don’t have enough hope, no more hope. That’s the next generation that’s gonna save our planet, starting with .. we’ll talk about it. United States, Europe, Prague, my babies. They walk around with no mother. They drop them off, they leave — a psychological degradation of that. They reach out to me — Please take me with you.”
Murray: “Mmnh-mmnh.”
Jackson: “I want to do that for them.”
Murray: “Mmnh-mmnh.”
Jackson: “I’m gonna do that for them. That will be remembered more than my performances. My performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream. I love them. I love them because I didn’t have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it. ‘Heal the world.’ ‘We are the world,’ ‘Will you be There,’ ‘The Lost Children’ — these are the songs I’ve written because I hurt, you know, I hurt.”
Thirteen-second silence.
Murray: “You okay?”
Eight-second silence.
Jackson: “I am asleep.”
Recording ends.
