Michael Jackson’s former nanny says she had to pump the pop star’s stomach, claiming he was addicted to prescription drugs.

Grace Rwaramba, 42, worked for the King of Pop for more than a decade, first as his secretary then as nanny to his children Prince, Paris and Prince Jnr.

Rwaramba told the Sunday Times: “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. He always ate too little and mixed too much.”

Rwaramba claims Jackson sacked her because she was getting too close to the children but she had fully expected to be reinstated soon.

She added: “I took these babies in my arms on the first day of each of their lives.

“I’m really distraught for them. Michael hadn’t been eating and the kids have been so scared for him. Now the youngest has been saying: ‘Why Daddy? God should have taken me not him.’ They are MY babies.”

At times, Jackson was so penniless, Rwaramba said, she had to use her own credit card to buy things like balloons for his children’s birthday parties.