King of Pop Needs a New Lung

Michael Jackson‘s biographer claims the King of Pop is waging the fight of his life against a genetic disease that has left him nearly blind and desperately in need of a lung transplant.

According to author Ian Halperin (via The Sun), Jackson “needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it.” Jackson’s biographer Halperin also claims that the pop legend “has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping.”

Jackson, who turned 50 just a few months ago, is said to be barely able to speak.

Halperin says Jackson is battling an inherited condition called A1AD — alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency — where those affected by it lack a protein that helps protect the lungs. Halperin says that due to the ailment, Jackson “can barely speak” and that the “vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone.”

And while the breathing woes are surely something to worry about, Halperin claims that “it’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”

Jermaine Jackson, Michael’s brother, even commented on the situation, telling The Sun that his little brother is “not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”

Halperin is a well respected and long-time investigative reporter. He made a name for himself by going undercover and posing as a model to report on the fashion industry in his book ” Shut Up and Smile,” and most recently skewered Hollywood in ‘Hollywood Undercover: Revealing the Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown.’

King of Pop Needs a New Lung

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