Michael Jackson tried to buy prescription stimulants in the Far East, one of his doctors has revealed.

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Michael Jackson tried to buy prescription stimulants in the Far East, one of his doctors has revealed.

During a trip to Japan in 2007 the King Of Pop asked a doctor to sell him ‘pep pills’ but was refused and told: “If you take these drugs you will be dead in three years.”

Dr Eugene Aksenoff – who runs Tokyo’s International Clinic – told the pop star the drugs could kill him.

Jackson had come to him on an earlier visit in 2000 asking for sleeping tablets, which Askenoff did prescribe.

Aksenoff, who was born in Russia, treated Jackson on four different occasions in Japan between 1996 until 2007.

On his last visit Jackson said he needed stimulants to get him through appearances during his visit.

Aksenoff refused to prescribe them telling him the drugs were addictive and potentially life threatening.

Aksenoff, 85, said: “I made it clear – no narcotics. I told him if he started taking them he would die from abusing drugs in three years.

“You take a little bit then you get used to it and need more and more. It is like suicide.

“He tried to convince me, saying we have a long enough history to trust each other, but I told him, ‘If you start using them, you cannot stop increasing the amount. They will kill you in three years.’

“He said he would pay for it, but I said it wasn’t about the money.”

Dr Aksenoff is the medical director of the International Clinic in central Tokyo.

He first met Jackson in 1996 at the star’s suite at the Capitol Tokyu Hotel.

“Jackson had a high fever and was dehydrated after a performance at Tokyo Dome wearing a tight-fitting and heavy costume,” Aksenoff said.

They met again two years later at the same hotel where Aksenoff again treated Jackson for a fever and dehydration.

Their third meeting took place in 2000 when Jackson’s two children – Prince and Paris – had high fevers.

After treating them Jackson signed a photo for the doctor, writing: “Dr Aksenoff, thank you for helping me.”

He then asked for sleeping pills.

“He asked for sleeping pills. I gave him Halcion, it’s a standard American sleeping pill. It was not so harmful – people sleep naturally because of the jet lag and dehydration. I didn’t know anything about Demerol until I heard the news from Los Angeles.

“He didn’t ask for Demerol and I didn’t give it to him.”

On the fourth occasion Aksenoff met Jackson in his suite at the Four Seasons Hotel when Jackson asked for stimulants

“I’m very proud I didn’t give them to him,” Aksenoff said.

“He wanted enough pep for the show. I told him I would give him vitamins but nothing of the narcotic type.”

Despite Jackson’s requests for drugs Aksenoff said he remained friends with the star and said he was an excellent father.

“I want people to know that he was so attentive to the children. When he brought them in and they were ill he cancelled his show the next day.

“It must have cost a lot of money but he loved the children very deeply.

“I don’t know his personal life but he was a very kind father.”

Source: Splash News