The gruelling trial, packed with graphic testimony seems to have taken a heavy toll on Jackson, who looks gaunt, thin and has shuffled slowly to and from the courtroom each day.
"He is at the emergency room," Adean King said, a Jackson publicist.
"His back fired up again," she said, adding the pop megastar planned to return later in the day to his Neverland ranch, a few miles from the Santa Ynez Cottage hospital where he was treated.
"It's the same problem he's had throughout the trial, it's been bothering him all week," Ms King said.
"Since it's a slow day he decided to have it checked."
Jackson had undergone treatment two to three times during the trial for his back ailment, which he said happened on March 10 when he fell to the ground after stepping out of a shower.
An official at the hospital declined to give details of Jackson's treatment.
"We cannot confirm or deny anything, as per his request," she said.
Jackson's spokeswoman Raymone Bain said on Friday the back complaint had been exacerbated by the air conditioning system in the courtroom, where the pop star has been sitting through six hours a day of testimony, five days a week.
Jackson's back complaint almost cost him his freedom and $US3 million bail in March, after he turned up in court late, and in pyjamas, and Judge Rodney Melville had issued a warrant for his arrest.
The bail was restored and the prospect of the pop megastar spending the rest of the trial in jail lifted at the end of that day's proceedings, during which Jackson's 13-year-old accuser testified.
On Thursday, Jackson stopped by the same hospital.
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Guantanamo
06.06.2005 12:06
wasp
geeze
06.06.2005 12:24
YOU DO NOT KNOW MICHAEL JACKSON, YOU ARENT AN AQUAINTANCE OF HIM, ALL YOU SEE IS HIS DEGENERATE MEDIA IMAGE, YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM, OK???
SO YOU DONT KNOW WHETHER HE ABUSED THOSE KIDS OR NOT, WHAT IS OBVIOUS IS, HE IS A TOTAL FREAK, HE LOOKS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE, HES A PATHETIC PUSSY BOY IF IT WAS ANYONE ELSE ON TRIAL THEY WOULD NEVER KEEP GOING TO HOSPITAL ALL THE TIME.. HE IS JUST A PANSY BOY AND NEEDS TO GET OVER HIMSELF, HE MUST BE MENTALLY RETARDED OR SOMETHING, YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT HIS PATHETIC SELF AND HIS PATHETIC SELF INDULGENT CRAP TO SEE THAT.
YOU DONT KNOW THE FACTS, THE JURY DOES, LET THEM DECIDE..... ALTHOUGH HIS RICH CELEBRITY POOF BOY STATUS WILL NO DOUBT COUNT IN HIS FAVOUR AND SPARE HIM..
SHUTTHEFUCKUP
the man was abused as a child
06.06.2005 21:44
yeah he's a freak but like moost such, he deserves sympathy and maybe some professional help rather than condemnation or adulation.
poor bloke.
who cares
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06.06.2005 22:16
not to mention intolerant generally.
you shouldn't call people freaks.
like you say, totally, let the jury decide. but if he's innocent, then he's got every right to be weird, as long as his weirdness doesn't involve sexual abuse.
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Compassion and Empathy For Creative Mentors
07.06.2005 02:45
Just Beat, beat it, beat it..........
However, this man Michael Jackson has helped many millions of people get it right.
This man is a unique individual who is priceless and deserves no less support than any other person. Especially in consideration to the millions of fans world wide that have guided there life on this mans talent. I think he deserves all the help that he can get. And he won't get that in any prison I can assure you.
WHO IS BAD?
He is otherwise a mentor in the community, my mentor and has been ever since I was a child. When you weigh up the wrong in the world today including torture then Michael Jackson is a STAR .
S.T.A. and R.....So if you can't join us as the songs says, Just Beat it!
Gregory
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do what?
07.06.2005 08:28
in fact in many circles (esp in US) freak is a self describing word for a free thinker and weird dresser. nothing to do with sexuality at all. and michael jackson, like many other people gay and straight, is pretty freaky. as am i, while I mention it.
meanwhile no I'm not frightened of gay people or gay behaviour. nor am I a man!
jumping to conclusions?
i care!