Los Angeles - The day that Michael Jackson is dead, his personal chef says her first hint of something wrong was when his doctor did not come down to get the juice and granola he brought the King of Pop for breakfast every morning.
Kai Chase, a professional chef hired by Jackson to maintain a healthy food system, recalled how last days in an interview with The Associated Press. She talked about the importance of his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, now the middle of a deadly investigation.
Chase said Tuesday that she had been accustomed to see Murray coming and going from the palace. Doctors are usually around 9 or 9:30 and would go up the stairs to Jackson room, and she said she would not see him again before she left - sometimes late at night - but he lived unwritten night.
This morning when she came to work, Chase said she would see the doctor coming down the stairs carrying oxygen tanks. When Murray was not the morning 25. June "I thought perhaps Mr. Jackson sleeping late," Chase said.
"I began to prepare lunch and then I looked at my phone and it was noon. About 12:05 or 12:10 Dr. Murray go down the stairs and screams," Go get the Prince! "He screamed very high. I Running into it, the kids toys. Prince (eldest son Jackson) goes to meet Dr. Murray, and from now on you can feel the energy in the house change.
"I went into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw Paramedics running up the stairs."
As Chase told the small group that was collected - for children, their nanny, a housekeeper and Chase - held hands and began to pray. As Paramedics raced up the Room Chase recalls, "We were all praying," Help, Mr. Jackson to be OK "
So everyone was very quiet. "
At around 1:30, she said the security guards told her and other employees to leave the property because "Mr. Jackson was taken to hospital."
When she came out, she said, ambulances were in the courtyard and the audience had gathered.
Chase, 37, who has prepared for other celebrities and come from a show-business family, was hired by Jackson in March, and the drop in May, and then came back 2 June. She said pop star was the focus on fresh, healthy food for him and the children.
She prepared meals for the family and sometimes for Murray. She said that Jackson was in training for his upcoming show in London and said to her: "You must take care of me."
On most days, she said, Murray will put Jackson on the special juice drink Chase prepared for him, followed by granola with almond milk. For lunch, Jackson wanted to eat with children from a menu that included, among other things, spinach, lettuce and chicken.
Murray sometimes joined for dinner, which may be a seared Ahi tuna. She said the doctor returned to her 50-year-old pop singer to the mat, and that he ate.
The only oddity was the oxygen tanks. Chase said she never asked the purpose of the oxygen and she saw no evidence that Jackson was on drugs or was in failing health.
"Typically in the morning, he would get the oxygen tanks from upstairs downstairs, one in each hand," she says.
The authorities searched for Murray Las Vegas home and medical office Tuesday as part of a study that included raids last week in his clinic and store in Houston.
With pending toxicology reports, investigators working under the theory that the powerful anesthetic evidence Jackson caused the heart to stop a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. Murray told Investigator he regularly administered the drug to help Jackson, sleep, and had done so even in the early morning hours on June 25, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Propofol is intended to be administered only supervised medical settings by qualified personnel official told the AP that Murray left the bedroom and returned to find the star act. Police said Murray cooperating and not label him a suspect and his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, said the doctor "does not prescribe or administer anything to have killed Michael Jackson."
As Murray, Chase said she was hired to accompany Jackson to London for their comeback concerts and the request was personal to her of his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael II.
"Prince said Dad wants me to tell you that he wants you to travel to London with us," says she recalled. "I said:" Tell your father that I am pleased and honored. "
She said that she had already filled out the paperwork and sent a copy of her pass to Jackson employees and is expected to go to London on July 3.
The 23. June, she said Jackson told her: "I'm packed and I'm ready to go." Two days later he was dead.
It was the end of her dream job and idyllic time in the Chase life, a period that had begun in March with a call from Jackson's assistant, Michael Williams. She was told that "the customer" wanted her services as a personal chef, but she was not told the client was Jackson before she was hired.
"I could not believe it," she says. "I asked him if I was honest Camera." I said: "I punked? "
She said Jackson had seen her resume that included work cooking for Macy Gray and Jamie Fox as well as catering a Fund Raiser for president Barack Obama.
But before she started she had to pass patterns with three other people: Jackson children.
"I came to the house and the first people I met was a child. They began to interview me," she says. "They said to me:" We are in a healthy diet. "
Once approved her, she went to work and "We have developed a truly great Bond."
Most days, she said, Jackson made a point of having both lunch and dinner with the children, Prince, 11-year-old Paris, and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, also known as carpet, and each meal preceding Paris says grace period . After weeks of healthy food, she wrote Jackson a memo with a proposal:
"I said:" What makes comfort food on Saturday? We could make grilled chicken and corn on the Cob, maybe Mexican food or soul food. She said he liked the idea, but as concerts contacted healthy diet returned full time.
"He said:" I am a dancer, and he would have food that would not make him cramp up while he was dancing. "
She now treasures little notes she received from children and from Jackson and a gift he gave her.
"One day he gave me a small gift bag and said:" This is for you from me and the children. "He had given me an iPod Touch because the children told him that I still had a Walkman. It was 25 Birthday" Thriller "album loaded on it."
She said she has visited with the children since Jackson's death and the good results. They have so many cousins to play with. "
As for Chase's future, she said Jackson encouraged her to write a Cookbook, and she has written a tentatively titled "Fit for a king." It contains recipes she cooked for Jackson and the story about the time she worked for him.
"He was an inspiration for me," she says.