MJ "Was Very Happy" Days Before Death

Dr. Arnold Klein, Michael Jackson's longtime dermatologist, gave an interview which aired today on ABC's "Good Morning America."

In the interview he said the entertainer did not appear in poor health but even danced in his office just three days before he died and that he saw nothing that would make him worry.

"He was not in terrible pain. He danced in the office. He danced for my patients. He was very muscular and he was very, very happy and dancing."

He said he had sedated the pop star in the past for painful medical procedures but had never given him dangerous sedatives like Propofol to use. Any drugs he used with Michael Jackson were on very mild levels, Klein said.

"How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don't know how to use it?

There was nothing wrong with the manner I treated Michael, because what I had to do is restructure for an individual who had lupus, who had terrible acne scarring his face. But I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything. In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything."

Klein said it was he who diagnosed Michael Jackson with lupus and saw growing evidence of vitiligo, both autoimmune diseases that affect the skin.

"It blew me away because here I'm diagnosing the most famous person in the world ... with a very serious ailment."

As Michael Jackson's skin started to be marked with "severe speckling," Klein said, something had to be done even out the tone.

"At the same time he was in the hands of plastic surgeons who didn't know when to stop. But he felt he was a piece of art, that his face was a piece of art."

Klein said that although Jackson did not confide to him a complete list of medications he was taking, he did have a talk about dangerous prescription drugs many years ago. In the days before Oxycontin was available, Klein said Jackson requested an older painkiller that was more potent that even morphine.

"I said 'You can't take that. It's poison. Throw that in the trash. And I got him to throw it in the toilet. But I can't be there every minute. I wish I could have been there every minute of the day." So Dr. Klein said he was always concerned about Michael and been worried about other doctors before because "no matter what he [Michael] wanted, someone would give it to him. The very rich and the very poor and the very famous all get the worst medical care."

He also said about other docotors:

"I say they are criminals. Anyone who makes someone an addict or gives a person potentially dangerous substances, directly to them to use. like Propofol, is a criminal. It becomes nothing more than a manslaughter, something worse than that. This is the most loving human being that I...and is lost to my life."

Klein also spoke briefly about Michael's children, remembering one Christmas Eve he spent with them at his home where he was charmed by the entertainer's "brilliant" children.

"The kids were so very happy and so beautiful. Every time they would pass their father they would say 'I love you Daddy.'"

Klein said he was stunned by the news of his friend's death, sitting in one spot for hours, saying he "went to almost instantaneous shock."

"I feel horrible for what happened because I really, really love this person, because he was the person who was the consummate entertainer, that could get up on a stage and sing. And once he began entertaining, he ... loved every single person in the audience."

To view thevideo go to ABC's "Good Morning America" website and choose the video under "Recently On GMA" (Doctor Adresses Jackson's Drug Use).

Source: MJFC / AP