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Michael Jackson’s ex-doctor claims the singer’s father ‘chemically castrated’ the pop star

Conrad Murray says the King of Pop told him Joe Jackson sought to maintain Michael’s ‘high-pitched voice’

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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, with his father, Joe Jackson, in 2005. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Michael Jackson’s former doctor claims in a scathing new video that the King of Pop’s father “chemically castrated” the singer.

Conrad Murray – who spent time behind bars in connection with Michael’s death in 2009 – asserts that the pop star told him about “the many sufferings” he allegedly endured at the hands of his father, Joe Jackson.

“The cruelty expressed by Michael that he experienced at the hand of his father, particularly the bad treatment,” Murray says as his voice trails off in a first-person video obtained by The Blast, a celebrity-news website. “The fact that he was chemically castrated to maintain his high-pitched voice is beyond words.”

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Michael Jackson in 2009, weeks before his death. Photo: AFP
Michael Jackson in 2009, weeks before his death. Photo: AFP

Murray, 65, spent two years in prison on an involuntary manslaughter charge after providing Michael Jackson a lethal dose of the drug propofol, a powerful anaesthetic.

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The new video emerged a little over two weeks after Joe Jackson died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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