Michael Jackson was out of shape, consumed with doubt

Promoters of Michael Jackson’s planned 2009 comeback described in emails how they feared for the megastar’s stability. AEG’s Randy Phillips wrote his boss that Jackson was “an emotionally paralyzed mess.” “MJ is locked in his room drunk and despondent,” Phillips said in an email to AEG President Tim Leiweke. “I (am) trying to sober him up.”  More…