And so to new age guru/quantum quack Deepak Chopra, who has broken another impossibly brief silence on Michael Jackson.
As one of many who self-identify as Jackson's spiritual advisers – what a bang-up job they all did – Chopra is well placed to divulge details of his friend's mental health. Particularly now he's dead. According to what America's leading "wellbeing" expert told an interviewer recently, Jackson confided in him that he was using the general anaesthetic Propofol to visit and return from the afterlife, or "the valley of death".
Aha. Congratulations to Dr Chopra, who has now deployed this particular anecdote at least five times in the course of publicising his various ventures. It was first aired on Larry King's show, before doing the rounds of other news or chatshows, a TIME magazine interview, a promotional appearance ahead of a literary festival, and no doubt many other staging posts.
Each time you think the darkness must have claimed the anecdote, in fact, it returns from the valley of death. The only sadness, really, is that Michael was never turned on to Chopra's latest brand of healing: a pill called Endorphinate™. According to Chopra, this over-the-counter medicine relieves "anxiety, cravings, anger, trauma and fatigue".
It doesn't half make you bang on about Michael Jackson, though, so do be mindful of the side-effects.
