CONRAD Murray stuns a slick TV presenter when he breaks into song during a live interview.
Michael Jackson’s personal doctor â€" still serving time over the singer’s death â€" sang The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot after ringing into the current affairs show Anderson Cooper 360.
He went on to tell shocked Anderson that the Nat King Cole classic â€" about a boy who has no Christmas presents â€" was the story of his life.
The doctor was sentenced to four years in prison on an involuntary manslaughter charge after he was found guilty of administering the fatal dose of Propofol which killed the Thriller star in 2009.
He called the CNN show to talk about his refusal to testify in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the superstar’s mother Katherine against concert promoters AEG Live, which began in Los Angeles, yesterday.
PRESENTER stunned as doctor jailed over Michael Jackson's death breaks into song on phone
He told Anderson: “If I testify, I will testify very honestly. It is a sad thing when I look at what’s going on on the television because if Michael was alive today he would be absolutely upset, he would be so unhappy with what is happening.â€
Then he broke out his rendition of the Cole song to explain his humble upbringing as the disbelieving newsman shifted uncomfortably in his seat.
Misquoting the lyrics, he sang: “He’s a little boy that Santa Claus forgot, and goodness knows he did not want a lot.
“He wrote a note to Santa for some crayons and a toy, it broke his little heart when he found Santa hadn’t come... I’m so sorry for that laddy who hasn’t got a Daddy.â€
Jailed ... Conrad Murray
He added: “That song tells my story. That’s how I grew up â€" I had no Christmases, I had no toys. I had nothing.â€
Murray insisted: “I’m an innocent man, Anderson. I maintain that innocence. I must tell you, I’m extremely sorry that Michael has passed. It’s a tremendous loss for me, it’s a burden I’ve been carrying for the longest while and it’s a burden I will carry for an indefinite period of time.
“The loss is just overwhelming. He was very close to me, I was close to him, we were absolutely great friends.â€
In another interview the doctor, who is expected to stay behind bars until October, insisted he was the scapegoat in Michael’s death.
He said: “I have taken the brunt of the storm for the entire life of a man 50 years old, who has had a monumentally destructive, painful life that has been so damaged it is of huge proportions.
“It is in terms so humongous that for 50 years of pain that he has lived and I did not do him for all of that.
“All of the mishaps that he has encountered in life seem to trickle down on me and I think that is the definition of a scapegoat. Nobody has taken any responsibilities for anything that they may have done to this man but, because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, then here I am.
“Why am I innocent? Because I did nothing wrong and all I tried to do was to help a friend who I encountered in a devastated state and I tried to do everything possible to help my friend.
“I have been called names and who knows what. Nobody else was there at that time and I can say with the effort that I made I could’ve suffered a cardiac arrest myself. It was not an easy task but I never gave up on my friend â€" never did.â€
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