Lisa Marie Presley: Michael Jackson knew how he would die

MANILA, Philippines – He knew it all along. While mourning the passing of her former husband, Lisa Marie Presley said Michael Jackson had predicted that his death would be similar to that of Elvis Presley, the legendary "King of Rock and Roll." On her blog on social networking site MySpace, Lisa Marie said that when she and Jackson were still together, he hinted at ending up with the same fate of her father, who died in 1977 due to prescription drug overdose. “At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him (Elvis Presley), the way he did,’" she quoted Jackson as saying. Like Elvis, Jackson’s death stunned the world. Jackson was found collapsed and not breathing in his Los Angeles home on June 25 (June 26 in Manila). Paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to revive him. He was declared dead a few hours later due to cardiac arrest. Los Angeles County medical examiners completed an autopsy and said Jackson had taken prescription medication prior to his death. Despite Jackson’s “predicted ending," Lisa Marie said she did not anticipate the profound grief the incident would bring: “What I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened," she said. “All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted," she added. Jackson and Lisa Marie married in May 1994 and divorced two years later. On her blog, Lisa Marie emphasized that their relationship “was not a sham" and that she loved the legendary musical artist very much. “It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a ‘normal life’ found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much," she said. She added that she also tried to save her former husband from what she said was his self-destructive behavior. Jackson died mired in debt, with the tail-end of his colorful career tainted by controversies involving child molestation and financial problems. [See: A look at the career of the King of Pop] “I wanted to save him from the inevitable, which is what has just happened. The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow," she said. But Lisa Marie said she decided to give up because “in trying to save him, I almost lost myself." “I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him," she added. - Sophia M. Dedace, GMANews.TV