Karen Faye, the make-up artist of Michael Jackson, has taken the stand in the late superstar's wrongful death trial and revealed that 'everyone was lying' in the run up to his passing.

She worked with the icon during his 'This Is It' tour and told the court that the people around him lied about his condition in the days leading up to his death and did nothing to actively help:

"Everybody was lying after he died, saying that Michael was well... Everybody knew that he wasn't. I felt that retouching Michael [for his posthumous 'This Is It' documentary] was just a part of that lie. I was a lie. I didn't want a lie."

Faye (shown below with handlers Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins) went on to add that Jackson seemed 'frightened' a lot of the time and would talk to himself, repeating "the same thing over and over again":

"He kept repeating, 'Why can't I choose?' [He was shivering from chills, and it was] like I was touching ice [when I put on his makeup]. [Costume director] Bush said, 'Oh my God. I could see Michael's heartbeat through the skin in his chest'. He was clearly upset. He was pretty much in shock."

She also explained how she expressed her concerns to AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips, but his response was only to say that Jackson was "not so good": "It was such a cold response, it broke my heart."

Watch an interview with Faye here: