A nearly-penniless Michael Jackson reportedly took out all his financial frustrations on those who were hired to protect him, the New York Post reported on Monday.
The King of Pop's former bodyguards told ABC News that the late singer was plagued by financial woes over the last few years of his life, which led to emotional fits.
"We were asked to leave hotels because the credit card on file was denied," bodyguard Bill Whitfield told Good Morning America in an interview that will air on Tuesday.
"The bill wasn't paid," added former bodyguard Mike Garcia.
"We smile about it, but it's really more painful and hurtful," said Whitfield.
The bodyguards said that Jackson may have appeared soft-spoken in public, but would fly into fits of rage in private.
"He got so frustrated he threw my cell phone out the window, through the window and broke the glass," recalled Whitfield.
"And he looked at me and said, 'Bill, you're going to need a new phone.'"
The bodyguards recounted how they were also responsible for protecting Jackson's three kids - Prince, Paris and Blanket - from seeing images of their father on magazine covers.
"I'll be ahead of him, because I know he's coming this way, and I'm looking at magazine racks that may have something about him on them and I'll turn it around," said Whitfield.
"Sometimes he's seen them, and you would actually see him take it and turn them around so the kids didn't see them."
Jackson, 50, died last June 25 in his Los Angeles home after taking a lethal combination of anesthetics and sedatives.
Dr Conrad Murray, his personal physician, was charged last month with manslaughter in the singer's death after administering the cocktail of drugs.
Murray, who was with Jackon when he died, has told cops he administered the powerful anesthetic propofol to the singer that fateful morning.
Jackson had a level of propofol in his system equivalent to what would be used in "major surgery," according to the scathing autopsy report, which was made public last month.
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