Tito Jackson, an older brother of late pop superstar Michael Jackson, said Wednesday morning that he and his siblings had attempted “multiple times” to stage interventions to save their brother from what they felt was his addition to prescription drugs.
In a wide-ranging interview on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Tito Jackson said, when asked why the Jackson family failed to intervene with Michael Jackson’s drug habit, “It wasn’t just one time, but multiple times … Marlon, Jackie and I tried to get to his house once, and we’re tackled. We tried to do an intervention, not once (or) twice.”
At Neverland, he said, “they had firetrucks from the firehouse … to stop us from getting in.”
Tito Jackson also spoke on the guilty verdict in the case against Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted earlier this week of involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with Michael Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009.
Of Dr. Murray, he opined, “$150,000 a month made him do the wrong thing.”
Regarding Murray’s taping of conversations between he and the late singer, Tito Jackson saidd, “I know why he taped the conversation … he was just going to use it later.”
