Michael Jackson had cancerous lesion removed days before death

You thought Michael Jackson’s death would be the end of the revelations about the King of Pop? Nah. Apparently just days before he died, Jackson had a cancerous lesion removed from what was left of his nose, according to biographer Diane Dimond and an unnamed family source.

“Last week, I had two real sources call me and say he’s getting surgery right now for removal of skin cancer off his nose,” Dimond told Us Weekly in an interview on June 26. “This is not a man who suffers pain well. He likes painkillers. So he got some from here, he got some from there – who knows how much.”

Jackson suffered persistent insomnia in recent months, sources have said.

“For the past 15 years, Michael always slept until 3 or 4 in the afternoon and was up all night,” a source said. “When he started rehearsals for the tour, it totally screwed up his system.”

Jackson then started adding stimulants to his daily drug regimen in order to get up earlier. Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, told the Associated Press Tuesday that she repeatedly rejected his demands for the drug, Diprivan, which is given intravenously and induces sleep.

She said she received a strange phone call from a Jackson staff member four days before the singer’s death that made her fear that he somehow obtained Diprivan or another drug.

“He called and was very frantic and said, ‘Michael needs to see you right away.’ I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I could hear Michael in the background…, ‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body is cold. It’s very cold,’” Lee said. “I said, ‘Tell him he needs to go the hospital. I don’t know what’s going on, but he needs to go to the hospital … right away.”

“At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system,” she said, adding, “He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out.”

He died after suffering cardiac arrest. No word on the official cause of death, but California officials announced Wednesday the federal Drug Enforcement Agency is assisting the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigation into Jackson’s death.