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Presley: Michael predicted his death

Michael Jackson's ex wife, Lisa Maria Presley, has said that the singer made a prediction about his own death.

According to The Mirror, Presley wrote on the internet that the pop legend was convinced he'd follow in the footsteps of her father, Elvis, who passed away on his bathroom floor the day before his tour kicked off in August 1977.

She wrote: "Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.

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"I can't recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my father's death.

"At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did'."

Presley, 41, added: "I tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded, almost matter of fact, as if to let me know he knew what he knew and that was that.

"Fourteen years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaving the driveway of his home...and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.

"A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it happened."

Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 from a suspected heart attack on Thursday afternoon at his home in Beverly Hills.

SOURCE: www.rte.ie