Randy quote #2

SHOCKER #2: In an email Phillips sent an AEG colleague shortly before Jackson stood at a podium in the O2 Arena on March 5, 2009, to announce the This Is It run, he wrote, “MJ is locked in his room drunk and despondent. Tohme [Jackson’s manager at the time] and I are trying to sober him up and get him to the press conference.” “Are you kidding me?” the colleague wrote back. Phillips then wrote, “I screamed at him so loud the walls are shaking. This is the scariest thing I have ever seen. He is an emotionally paralyzed mess riddled with self-loathing and doubt now that it is show time. He is scared to death.” (9/10a)