Michael Jackson's former manager planned to kidnap singer

In his new memoir, Listen Out Loud, former co-manager of Michael Jackson Ron Weisman exposed a plan to kidnap the singer in an attempt to bring him to rehab. The manager, who managed Jackson between the '70s and 1983, hatched the plan with Jackson's sister La Toya in 2006. The plan never took course however, as La Toya pulled out at the last minute.

"Michael on drugs was a shadow of his sober self, and even after the way he dumped me, I still cared about the guy,"wrote Weisman of his mind state during the period, when Michael was living in Bahrain.

Weisman had a plane, treatment program and team hired to kidnap the singer from the country and rehabilitate him, but it all fell apart when La Toya called Weisman and frantically tell him to cancel the plan.

Looking back, Weisman admits that from a legal perspective not going through with the plan was the correct decision.

"One of my attorneys [pointed] out … there was little question that [the court] would view this as a kidnapping rather than an attempt to help a colleague," he wrote.

Weisman also recalls, upon meeting Jackson shortly before his death, theat the singer resembled a prisoner of war, and does regret not going through with the plan, as it may have given Jackson a chance to get his life together.