Category: Celebrity News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: December 12, 2008
Tags : Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, michael jackson dies, michael jackson rare disease, michael jackson sick, michael jackson very ill, michale jackson disese, wacko jacko
Michael Jackson Might Die: For real this time says Intouch Mag

**UPDATE June 09: Michael Jackson dead **
Intouch Weekly print edition are running a story that Michael Jackson is so sick, with a rare genetic disease that he might die. For realz, this time, not faking it to get out of some sort of court appearance, jail cell etc.
According to Intouch Michael has the rare genetic disease Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
award-winning investigative journalist Ian Halperin tells In Touch that he believes that the King of Pop is fighting for is life. “Michael has a very severe lung condition called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency,” Halperin, a New York Times best-selling author, tells In Touch exclusively. “He’s had it for years but it’s gotten worse. He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It’s the bleeding that is the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Because this genetic disease is so rare – Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency affects just 1 in 5,000 Americans – it’s been difficult to treat, says Halperin. “For years, Michael has been working with his own doctors to make sure his condition doesn’t progress. He has been on many medications that have stabilized him.” But as the disease has progressed, Halperin says that the pop star’s quality of life has diminished. “He can barely speak,” says Halperin. “Also, the vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone.”
Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine Jackson confirmed to Foxnews that Michael was desperately ill saying. “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
I guess that puts paid to the much talked about Jackson Five tour.
See here for more information on the disease.
I can see the celebrity fundraising specials now, although it does explain a bit.





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Dec 12, 2008
pure crap, mj is fit n healthy, y du da crap press n media want 2 bring him down 4 money, stop main money outta of michael jackson
suckers go n die
GO MJ 4EVA
Dec 12, 2008
r u guys honestly this desperate for a story? unbelievable. write about things that make sense.
Dec 12, 2008
Let me just write a fucking article about the reporters mum.
NEWS FLASH: I fucked your mother with my big black cock and she loved it!! Oh and let me add, I gave her HIV! Haw! Haw! Haw!
Making FALSE “articles” and reporting the're going to die of some condition, when it's absolutely FALSE is fucking sick!!!
Dec 12, 2008
I hope it's not true :'(
Dec 12, 2008
He's gone from looking like a young black guy, to looking like an old white woman.
Dec 12, 2008
wow this would be aweful if this was true but i think it would be more bigger news than just this one article….dont ya think??
well im gona say this is not true and if it is completely false My Gosh you news reporters and tabloids must be in some serious need for a story, guess youve just ran out of false stuff to write about Michael
i love listening and watching Michael, i think he is an incredible musician and entertainer and i only wish the best for him, hes gone through too much crap over the years and its rediculous. Leave the guy alone.
Face it, hes just as normal as everyone else in this world so stop making him out to be weird
Dec 12, 2008
Stop the lies!!
This is untrue. Michael is perfectly fine.
~MJIB~Co. Productions
The Canadian MJJ Office
Dec 12, 2008
Is this true?, it may be, i mean, that would be a valid reason for him, i mean he has done nothing to recreate his life, his musical life, as a singer and DANCER, that takes a lot of health.
Dec 13, 2008
Bullshit!!!!!!!! He is fit and fine. God I am sick of these reporters think they no everything. And the pictures of Michael Jackson wearing a costume pure fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 13, 2008
fuck off !!!!
Dec 13, 2008
if this is true he has himself to blame just look at the state of him he is suposedto be a black man he looks like a zombie
Dec 13, 2008
FUCK YOU! I am fucking sick and tired of all those pathetic journalists and paparazzies CLAIMING that something terrible has happened or will happen to Michael. Deep inside I'm crying when I read theese articles about him, it is pure evil! Why can't you get that into your fucking minds!? I could just kill every reporter that has spread completly stupid and false rumors about Michael. I hate you from the bottom of my heart. LEAVE HIM ALONE! How many times do we have to repeat that!? I'm beginning to think that reporters that write THIS stupid articles don't have brains at all! You guys are so desperat that you'd even make up your own stories to keep your pathetic jobs. Writing crap and sick lies about people. How would you feel if someone spread a rumor about you that only YOU knew wasn't true? It's not funny at all!
Dec 13, 2008
How sick can you people get and how ignorant. Michael will eventually put paid to all these stories but in the meantime these lies will just keep going with people who are only too pleased to believe them. A few weeks ago Jermaine was talking about them touring, so how come he is now being quoted confirming Michael is ill, as if he would talk to the scum that is the tabloid media.
Photographs of Michael proving that he has severe vitaligo have been on the internet and some fans have seen it too, but still people want to make revolting comments about a person with a disfiguring desease.
Take a look at the Man in the Mirror before you start making your vile comments.
Dec 13, 2008
Please dont let it be true! I love Michael so much xxxx
Dec 13, 2008
please dont tell lies and bulshits for geting more dayly user.this is a fake news. michael jackson is alright and he is coming back soon.
Dec 13, 2008
call me the day where you will decide to LEAVE HIM ALONEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
you really have anything others to make?
Your speech inspire pity,
go see elsewhere let him
you have annoy him enough with your idiot histories
can be that my English is not good enough to send you the whole hate that I feel for you but in any case my heart and my feelings are there
I hate you with all my heart
STUPID AND F*****' MEDIA
GO TO HELL
Dec 13, 2008
Alpha-1 is rarely diagnosed, but not rare. It is believed that there are 100,000 alpha's that have not been diagnosed. Often mistaken for Bronchitis, Asthma, COPD and Emphysema. It is only rare that we do not have a celebrity who has been diagnosed with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency. Once a week infusion therapy can stop further lung damage, and save what little he has left.Missing a little of one of our major proteins is a big deal. Three forms of Alpha-1, Lungs, Liver, and Skin.
Dec 13, 2008
i hope this aint true but whether he's healthy or not the poor guy doesn't look as healthy as he used to.
At least in this article whether true or not is not taking the piss out of the guy, at least not cruelly.
Dec 13, 2008
bullshit.
Dec 13, 2008
HELL NO….. I SAY THIS SHIT SHOULD STOP
THIS REPORTERS SHOULD BE CRUCFIED FOR THIS BULL SHIT AGAINST THE KING!!!!!!!!
Dec 13, 2008
Tabloids are funny! Liz Taylor is dying, Liz Taylor is on her death bed, Liz Taylor has a month to live,etc. LIZ TAYLOR IS STILL HERE!
MJ is not dying.
Dec 13, 2008
Mike Jackson is one twisted old white boy, wait, I mean, old black dude. Any parent that would have agreed to let their child stay with this pervert should be taken out to the wood shed and got good and wooped for that which they had done.
Dec 13, 2008
hey fan4ever, get a fuckin life you pathetic looser, mike jackson is a child molester, plain and simple end of story. You like child molesters? what kind of person are you, man pull your head out yo as fool.
Dec 14, 2008
Interesting article. Excuse my cynicism. I suffer from Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, myself. I was dx'd when I was in my early 30s..I'm 58 now.
This is a farce as far as I'm concerned. I saw no where in that article that he's being infused w/Aralast, nor Zemira, nor Prolastin. This is the intervenous drug used to help stabilize us A1Aters.
A1ATD is a genetic disorder of the liver. Many of us survive our childhoods to become lung symptomatic and many of us do need lung tx. Our Alpha1 Children, however are born liver affected and need livers to survive at a very very young age. We suffer terribly.
The only good thing that I can say about this article is that it's putting this rare genetic disorder ( Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficieny ) up front and center..in the limelight where it needs to be for public awareness.
Dec 14, 2008
Stop this nonsense!!! Leave MJ alone!!!!!!
Dec 14, 2008
I looked this disease up in a Medical book, and I believe this story is pure BS…….If Michael Jackson had this disease, and it's as bad as they claim, he wouldn't have lived past his twenties………Pure Krap.
Dec 14, 2008
That's bullshit. Don't believe a single word of it.
I have sources that confirm this story to be a lie!
Dec 14, 2008
…and yet he is still more attractive than you
Dec 15, 2008
I m sick of hearing nasty rumors about Michael Jackson…enough is enough…
Leave him alone.
Dec 15, 2008
This is a prime example of the crap the media write! Michael is the greatest entertainer of all time, an outstanding talent who has millions of fans all over the world who love him. The lies printed about him over the years have lead to the misconception of a kind, humble and generous human being who just wants to use his talent to help make the world we live in a better place. People should just leave him alone and let him enjoy his sucess without being hounded constantly – they make me sick! Michael we all love you so much – come back soon! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dec 15, 2008
And those of you who have commented just to slate Michael – get a life. He is a better person than any of you losers will ever be!
Dec 15, 2008
Ok. I had enough of these tabloids trying to make money. Jealous bastards. I will make a story and say a lot of disgusting things about all these tabloids. No wonder MJ is so afraid because these false stories that the tabloids make up. I would not even spend a dime in these papers that all they do is spread lies and false stories. Why dont you publish this: the end of the world is in 1 month you miserable cowards! go find a way to make a decent living instead of being al leech and trying to make stories and living off other people for your personal gain! LEAVE THE KING OF POP ALONE! stop harrassing him.
Dec 15, 2008
Okay, lets really look at the bigger picture here , weather or not he does have Alpha One, I hope that it creates awareness about this disease, it is very rare and there needs to be more research on it. I know I am an Alph myself and have been living with ups and downs all my life. For Michael, I don'r wish this on anyone, but maybe he or his crazy fans and haters could shed some light on the importance of knowledge, however it gets started.
Dec 16, 2008
let the fucker rot in hell!
Dec 16, 2008
I really hope its not true, it would be just so devastating if it was.
Dec 18, 2008
I hope with all my heart that it's not true.. I hope you lie (you should be ashamed..)
I hope Mr Michael Jackson will have a very long life and again so many children to be the father.. I pray for him.
Dec 21, 2008
NO ONE is interstedi your ditry nob.
Newspapers get lost with your X factor full of rubbish abd your stories of full of rubbish and your
cases and your trials and your accusations .
I bet every fan woud donate a Lung and give blood.
He would not be in such a state if he neededa lung transplant ehy would know months before hand
That bavarina idiot -get lost .
that woman .-Get lost .
GET LOST .
Dec 21, 2008
I love Michael Jackson with all my heart he means the world too me , but seriously now yeh how can you lot be saying that it aint true how doo you know that i aint saying i want it to be true but you never know right?. but if the next person who comments have proof this is fake please send the link to the web site i can not sleep or stop thinking about michael jackson i am from England and i am going to find a way to meet michael jackson asap now i dont care how long it takes braav he is my role model do any of you know any way i can?
Dec 21, 2008
THIS IS TRUE
NOBODY WILL USE SICKNESS/ILLNESS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF ESCAPING FROM TONS OF CASES ON HIS HEAD.
Dec 21, 2008
I certainly hope none of this is true!! Michael is an amazing person and entertainer. Nobody else even comes close to him. I must say, if this was made up by some ignorant reporter, this is the cruelest most creative lie I can remember about MJ from the past 30 years. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is NO JOKE! Somebody should get a life and stop scaring all the fans.
And everybody who writes their mean comments, shut your stupid mouths!!!
Michael's the best!!
Dec 22, 2008
Micheal Jackson is alive and well. He just signed on to help revitalize Sears sales. Just look at the next circular you get from Sears/Roebuck-it proudly shows Michael Jackson advertising for the after Christmas sale. That's right, he's advocating for “Boy's pants, half off”. And you thought he was sick. No way!
Dec 22, 2008
Well i think he is ill you people need to stop saying his not your just copying what people are saying how about saying what you think seriously i love michael jackson and right this minitute i am loooking up on the internet ways for me to meet michael jackson aka tracking down his hospital sounds stupid? oh well thats called true love the only thing you people should be doing is Praying to dear God and pray michael jackson will live. And what site was michael jackson advertising im sure thats a lie no affence?
Dec 22, 2008
This story was actually covered on MSNBC this morning…I wish that it was fake too, but reporters say that he is in bad shape due to all of the stress that he has been through financially and his health overall. Check it out for sure on CNN or MSNBC.
Dec 22, 2008
My daughter has this condition, So i'm quite interested in this. It does explain why he is sometimes seen wearing masks, to reduce the risk of breathing in cigarette smoke and pollution which is a big factor to early onset emphysema in sufferers of this condition.
Dec 22, 2008
Hey, i forgot to add, i live in the uk, the NHS do not offer infusion therapy as they say it's in trial and there's no evidence that it has an effect. Is this true? The only meds she gets is multivitamins and vit k. My daughter was diagnosed at 6 weeks old. I'm hoping early diagnosis can lead to better lifestyle choices – no alcohol, avoiding second hand smoke and well balanced diet and inturn will prevent further uneeded damage.
Dec 22, 2008
true or false he will always be the best of all time period. if it is true i will pray for you Mike. you are and always be loved by the world. if there was never a Micheal Jackson 90% of todays artists wouldnt even have a career. E.G Usher, Chris Brown need i go on. you get the picture God bless you Mike wherever you may be.
Dec 22, 2008
Who do they take us for ? I'm a medical doctor, I can tell you a mutation of alpha anti-trypsin wil cause you a panemphyseme that will start when you're a child, not after you've after you've turned 40 !
They did the same thing with vitiligo : you'll have patches of depigmentation, and at those areas, even your hairs will be all white ! not that gradual fadning that Michael Jackson experienced
MJ is a liar !!
Everyone, go to wikipedia and look for alpha anti trypsine deficiency, an you'll see that it doesn' fit !
what a joke Michael !!
Dec 25, 2008
I really dont know what to believe here but um…….. MJ has been critisized for about how many years now. Um I dont know I dot think no one would just lie about him dieing…… I mean who would they pick on after that? Obama? I think he has had enough, sorry guys I think he is in pain…..
Dec 26, 2008
It can't be true! Michael I love you!
I hope that you will get well
Dec 26, 2008
can someone get straight intouch with him, he has worked his life to give us something beautiful, and all i see around me is Mosters whom want to see death, tragity and prime time drama. To stand alone a fight for some thing beyond, the man deserves something back, he's still got an amazing album in him, i Believe
Dec 26, 2008
do you actually believe that your self indolingent behaviour will sufice? your control behaviour is quite evendent in the cruel manner you approach this topic, obviously your still trying to live up to dads or mums yoke. Suach a special man to spit such venom to someone else, please if you want to be a terroist then think, observe and yes i have a dual major in chemistry/ biology and a degree in Psychology.
be good
Dec 26, 2008
fuck you ass holes this rapist needs to die
Dec 26, 2008
I agree with this Luke guy…. Fuck yourselves and let this child anal rapist die forever!!!!
Jan 22, 2009
i don't no ! i don't no ! i don't no ! ….. O' God! help those who don't no… O' God! help those who think they no… O' God! bless Michael!… O' God help n bless this World for we say and think wicked things
Feb 3, 2009
michael jackson is like the boom man it just sucks that it has too end like that him broke and people need to stop sueing him he has problems of his own right now so they just make it worste go michael u rock my world 4ever
Jun 25, 2009
LMAOO DRYY
kayso, almost all of you are writing down decent things, which is good cuz we all need to stand up for him; people makin bullshyt need to stop n get a life!
thank-youu (:
Jun 25, 2009
yea
Jul 12, 2009
to bad that motha fucka died stupid ass fucker.
Jul 12, 2009
sorry but it was true
Jun 26, 2011
why you die mj.
Jun 26, 2011
becoz MJ=Mati Jampat
Jul 12, 2011
ow…. mali de jako kenya
Jul 12, 2011
de makai tai de neh
Jul 15, 2011
Ima Fan