Michael Jackson’s Slurred Speech: I Want to Do This Tour for the Children

Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, is now on trial for involuntary manslaughter, as he is accused of having irresponsible injected the singer with Propofol, which sent him into cardiac arrest. A recording made while he was under the influence was recently played in court.

While trying to prove that, despite his statements, Murray knew he was giving Michael too many drugs and that they were harming him, prosecutors played a recording the doctor made in May 2009, after he’d announced the This Is It music tour.

For some reason, Murray made the recording on his iPhone – and prosecutors seized it when they searched his house.

On it, Michael (incoherent at times) tries to explain why he wants to do the tour – and makes a very touching point when he says he’s doing it for the children in general and for his own, in particular.

This only further confirms that he had, indeed, a heart of gold and was planning to continue his good work.

“Children are depressed in those hospitals because there is no game room, no movie theatre. They’re sick because they’re depressed,” Michael says, right after saying he wants to use the money from the shows to build children’s hospitals.

“Their mind is depressing them. I care about them, them angels. God wants me to do it. I’m going to do it, Conrad,” he adds.

He also says that he identifies with these sick children because, just like them, he too was robbed of his childhood. This was his chance to make it right for them.

“My performances will be up there helping my children. I love them I love them because I didn’t have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it,” he is heard slurring.

“Heal the World, We Are the World, Will You Be There, The Lost Children. These are the songs I have written because I hurt, you know, I hurt,” he adds.

At the end of the recording, which you can check out below, Michael is silent for 13 seconds. When Murray asks him if he’s ok, he answers after another lapse, “I am asleep.”