Goodbye to Grace Rwaramba, Michael Jackson’s children’s nanny

Grace Rwaramba has been an employee of Michael Jackson since 1994. She began her job as an executive office secretary at Neverland, and after Michael’s first child was born in 1997, she became a nanny.

A source says she was introduced to Michael by Deepak Chopra, Michael’s spiritual mentor. Grace was dismissed from her job in December 2008. In spring 2009, she took part in an interview with Dafna Barak, an Israeli journalist, and spoke about her work.

The British publication Times Online printed statements attributed to Grace Rwaramba and said they came from her interview with Dafna Barak. In the text, statements attributed to Grace mentioned Michael’s use of narcotic drugs, as well as his being broke and in debt. It was also written that Grace tried to prevent Michael from using drugs and, for that purpose, contacted his family—but Michael considered her actions as interference, and these issues, along with financial disagreements, led to her dismissal. Times Online added that once, when Michael had taken drugs, Grace had been forced to press on her stomach to expel the medication, and that Michael’s children were afraid of their father, and that Grace prevented Michael from meeting his children.

Malika Chopra, Deepak Chopra’s daughter, criticized Times Online on her blog and rejected their claims. Times Online removed the article from its website, but the same account was also published in another British newspaper, the Daily Mail. Deepak Chopra, commenting on statements attributed to Grace, said that the woman he knew was not such a woman. Brian Stoller, a director and friend of Michael, said that Grace had formed a mother-and-child relationship with Michael’s children.

Grace Rwaramba also moved to refute these rumors and said she had never said such things.

Some sources claimed that this nanny had acted like a barrier between Michael and members of his family, not allowing anyone to get close to him. More recently, Roger Freedman claimed that in 2005, during Michael’s trial, Grace had injected him with propofol sedatives several times so he could sleep a bit.

Based on such rumors, the media attributed drug use—including Demerol—to Michael, and many fake reports were circulated online quoting police that claimed Michael had injected Demerol, a strong painkiller similar to morphine, the night before his death. Police said that Michael’s doctors had been injecting him with some painkillers, but the use of Demerol on the night he died was ruled out.

Shortly after Michael’s death, People magazine and Roger Freedman also reported that Grace had returned to the Jacksons’ home in Encino at the home of the Heunearst Jacksons to take care of the children. Roger Freedman now reports on his blog that, following a dispute between Grace and Rebbie, Michael’s sister, Grace was fired from Heunearst. Freedman wrote that Grace had argued with the Jacksons about how to raise Michael’s children.

Grace, who is from Rwanda, after the end of Michael’s 2005 trial and Michael’s acquittal, went with him and his children to Bahrain. At the same time, rumors were raised that she had married Michael—but those rumors were not true. Grace married Stacey Adeir in 1995 and later divorced. In 2008, she married an Ugandan man who worked for an oil company. Grace was married for most of the time she worked as Michael’s secretary or nanny.

Source: eMJey / timesonline.co.uk, showbiz411.com