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Grace Rwaramba, the nanny that took care of Michael Jackson’s children has opened up about Jackson’s battle with prescription drugs.
Grace Rwaramba was interviewed by The Times of London and described Jackson’s addiction to prescription drugs.
Rwaramba worked for Michael Jackson for over 10 years, and stated that she had to pump Jackson’s stomach “many times” after he’d taken a dangerous combination of drugs.
“He always mixed so much of it,” Rwaramba, 42, said. “There was one period that it was so bad that I didn’t let the children see him. He always ate too little and mixed too much.”
Grace said she was so worried about his addiction that she called his family members and tried to do an intervention. But instead she was fired.
“He didn’t want to listen; that was one of the times he let me go,” says Rwaramba, who started out as an office assistant.
Rwaramba, who was last fired in December,also discussed his debt issues. Reports state that Michael Jackson was about $400 million in debt when he died.
Grace said last April she visited Jackson’s children: Prince, now 12; Paris, 11; and Blanket, 7, that she had to purchase the balloons for Paris’ birthday party because Michael had no money.
Says Rwaramba, “Michael had no idea about money.”
On Friday, the day after Jackson died, Rwaramba says the singer’s mother Katherine called her from Michael’s rented L.A. house and asked where he kept his money. “She said, ‘Grace, the children are crying. They are asking about you. They can’t believe that their father died. Grace, you remember Michael used to hide cash at the house. I am here. Where can it be?’”
She told Katherine to look “at the garbage bags and under the carpets,” Rwaramba recalls. “She said, ‘Grace, where are you? Come. I will pick you up from the airport.’ She sounded so strong. So strong!”
Rwaramba is currrently meeting with a Los Angeles detective that is investigating Jackson’s death.
