Created: 7/1/2009 7:54:56 AM 
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A nutritionist who worked with Michael Jackson says the pop star used to beg for a powerful sedative, despite warnings it could perhaps kill him.
Cherilyn Lee is a registered nurse who says Jackson pleaded with her for Diprivan, which is given through an IV usually used in operating rooms to put patients to sleep. She says Jackson wanted the drug to get some rest, but she warned him that, as she put it, "you're going to take it and you're not going to wake up."
Lee says last Sunday, she got a frantic call from Jackson, complaining one side of his body was hot and the other side cold. She says she took that to mean someone had given him a drug affecting his central nervous system. She says she urged Jackson to go to the hospital, but he didn't.
He died four days later after suffering cardiac arrest. His body has undergone two autopsies, but an official cause of death isn't expected for several weeks.
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