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Michael Jackson 'wanted me to have his child' says British doctor
Peter Dominiczak25 Aug 2009
British doctor who claims to have been Michael Jackson's confidante says the superstar wanted her to be a surrogate mother for his fourth child.
Dr Susan Etok told US TV show Entertainment Tonight that the singer wanted a baby girl - a sister for his daughter Paris. Jackson was "fixated" on convincing the doctor to carry the child for him.
Dr Etok, 32, said a "throwaway comment" sparked the surrogacy idea during a conversation with the King of Pop in October last year. But soon Jackson had become "obsessed" with it.
"Loads of my friends were getting married and having kids...I was telling Michael about that," she said. "He thought I'd be a really good mother, and I joked to him that I'd like to have the child now and find Mr Right later, and he said: 'Let's do that'."
Dr Etok said that ultimately she would have backed out. "I was stunned," she told Entertainment Tonight. "We looked at loads of different things, how it was going to work, the mechanics of it, and I kept on throwing things at him saying: 'This is not going to work, I don't want to live in America. I don't want to give up any children.'
"He mentioned it nearly every time I spoke to him. He was fixated on my gene, he liked the fact that I came from an intelligent family of academics. I never got to the point where I agreed anything. I don't think it's something that I would have agreed to."
Dr Etok has already said Jackson, who she says she met during a visit to London, offered her £500,000 to supply drugs to see him through his planned series of O2 shows.
