Nanny recalls pumping Jackson’s stomach

LONDON — In a new interview with the UK’s Sunday Times, Grace Rwaramba — Michael Jackson’s longtime nanny — has revealed intimate details of her life with the private star and his three children.

“I miss my babies,” Rwaramba told the newspaper on Sunday, adding that for Jackson’s children, “I was the only mother they knew.”

She worked with the pop star for 17 years before being fired recently — and not for the first time, in what she described as a cycle of debt and prescription drug use that took them from Bahrain to Ireland to Germany to New Jersey until Jackson landed in Los Angeles to rehearse for a planned tour.

“I just got a phone call that Michael is in such a bad shape. He is not clean. He has not shaved . . . His nails . . . He is not eating well,” she said of a call prior to Jackson’s death on Thursday. “I used to do all this for him. They are trying to lure me to go back. But each time it happened before, he got rid of me. Then he made promises if I would come back. All these promises . . . After few days, it was the same abuse all over again.”

A source close to the Jackson family told Access Hollywood on Sunday that “everybody is shocked, upset and hurt” that Rwaramba has made these revelations.

Among Rwaramba’s charges were that Jackson mixed prescription drugs, and she had to pump his stomach more than once.

“He always ate too little and mixed too much,” she said. “I had to pump his stomach many times… He always mixed so much of it. There was one period that it was so bad that I didn’t let the children see him.”

At one point, she said, she held an intervention with his sister, Janet, and his mother, Katherine.

Beyond that, Jackson’s last years were plagued by a mounting debt – and Rwaramba alleged that Jackson had tried to frame her over his finances.

“When [Sheikh] Abdullah sued Michael last year, Michael said in the beginning, ‘Oh, I never got money from him,’” she said, explaining that the Sheik, the son of the king of Bahrain, had been paying Jackson for services he never rendered through her bank account. “He tried to frame me that I took the money.”

“There was no money,” she added, citing Jackson’s massive expenditures — a trip to the birthday party of Prince Azim, the son of the Sultan of Brunei, and the purchase of antiques in Florence, Italy, among others. “Michael had no idea about money.”

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And even when it came to his planned 50-date run of performances at the O2 Arena in London this July, she said Jackson didn’t realize what he’d gotten himself into.

“He said, ‘I signed only for 10.’ He didn’t know what he was signing. He never does!”

On the home front, Rwaramba, who said she served as the children’s de facto mother, noted that they were uncomfortable around their father and disliked the masks he made them wear in public.

“When Michael was around, they froze,” she said. “He didn’t like me hugging them. But they needed love. I was the only mother they knew… I [was] getting phone calls that they [were] being neglected. Nobody is cleaning the rooms, because he didn’t pay the housekeeper.”