A holistic medical practitioner who tried to treat Michael Jackson's chronic insomnia testified Tuesday that the singer became frustrated with her natural remedies and told her that only a surgical anesthetic could help him sleep.
Nurse practitioner Cherilyn Lee told jurors at the manslaughter trial of Jackson's doctor that the singer initially seemed open to her regimen of herbal teas and vitamin injections.
But as the months progressed and he still struggled to sleep, he became "a tad upset" with her approach and repeatedly asked her to help him get Diprivan, the brand name of the drug propofol.
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"The only thing that is going to help me is Diprivan and this is not working," Lee quoted Jackson as telling her in April 2009, two months before his overdose from the drug.
Lee was the second medical professional called to the stand by the defense to recount requests by Jackson for unorthodox sleep drugs. His longtime internist, Allan Metzger, testified Monday that during the same period, the singer asked for intravenous anesthetic to help his insomnia. Metzger said he refused to provide such a drug.
Lee said that she had never heard of Diprivan, but after looking it up in a drug reference book and speaking to a physician, she warned Jackson not to use it.
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