Michael Jackson biographer Ian Halperin tells The Sun that the pop star was stricken with an inherited condition called A1AD (alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency). “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it,” Halperin claimed. “He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.” The biographer added that the 50-year-old has lost 95% of his vision in the left eye.
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