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Michael Jackson's personal chef said that on the day he died, she knew something was amiss when his doctor failed to come downstairs to fetch breakfast for the King of Pop.
Kai Chase, a professionally trained chef hired by Jackson to maintain a healthy food regimen, recalled the singer's final days in an interview with The Associated Press.
She also spoke about the role of his personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, who is now the focus of a manslaughter investigation.
Chase said on Tuesday that she had grown used to seeing Dr Murray coming and going from the mansion. The doctor usually arrived about 9 or 9:30 pm and would go upstairs to Jackson's room. She said she would not see the doctor again before she left - sometimes late in the evening - but understood he was staying the night.
In the morning, when she arrived for work, Miss Chase said she would see the doctor coming down the steps carrying oxygen tanks. When Dr Murray did not come downstairs on the morning of June 25, "I thought maybe Mr. Jackson is sleeping late," Miss Chase said.
"I started preparing the lunch and then I looked at my cell phone and it was noon. About 12:05 or 12:10 Dr. Murray runs down the steps and screams, 'Go get Prince!' He's screaming very loud. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Prince (Jackson's oldest son) runs to meet Dr Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change.
"I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs."
At that point, Miss Chase said, the small group that was gathered - the children, their nanny, a housekeeper and Miss Chase - held hands and began to pray. As paramedics raced up to the room, Miss Chase recalled, "We were all praying, 'Help Mr Jackson be OK.'
"Then everyone was very quiet."
At about 1.30 pm she said security guards told her and other staff to leave the property because "Mr. Jackson was being taken to the hospital."
When she came outside, she said, ambulances were in the courtyard and a crowd had gathered.
Miss Chase, 37, who has cooked for other celebrities and comes from a show-business family, was hired by Jackson in March, let go in May, then returned on June 2. She said the pop star's focus was on fresh, healthy food for him and the children.
She said she prepared meals for the family and occasionally for Dr Murray. She said Jackson was in training for his upcoming shows in London and told her: "You have to take care of me."
On most days, she said, Dr Murray would bring Jackson the special fruit juice drinks Miss Chase prepared for him, followed by granola with almond milk. For lunch, Jackson would eat with the children from a menu that included such things as spinach salad and chicken.
Dr Murray sometimes joined them for dinner, which might have been a seared ahi tuna. She said the doctor conferred with her about the 50-year-old pop singer's food and made sure that he ate.
The only oddity was the oxygen tanks. Miss Chase said she never asked about the purpose of the oxygen and she saw no sign that Jackson was on drugs or was in failing health.
"Normally in the morning, he would bring oxygen tanks from upstairs downstairs, one in each hand," she said.
Authorities searched Dr Murray's Las Vegas home and medical office on Tuesday as part of an investigation that included raids last week of his clinic and storage in Houston.
With toxicology reports pending, investigators are working under the theory that the powerful anaesthetic propofol caused Jackson's heart to stop, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Dr Murray told investigators he regularly administered the drug to help Jackson sleep, and had done so sometime in the early morning of June 25, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Propofol is supposed to be administered only in monitored medical settings by trained personnel; the official told AP that Dr Murray left the bedroom and returned to find the star unresponsive. Police have said Dr Murray is cooperating and have not labeled him a suspect, and his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, has said the doctor "didn't prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson."
Like Dr Murray, Miss Chase said she was hired to accompany Jackson to London for his comeback concerts and the request was personally made to her by his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael II.
"Prince said, 'Daddy wants me to tell you he wants you to go to London with us,"' she recalled. "I said, 'Tell your daddy that I'm pleased and honoured."
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