Emotional testimony was heard from associate producer Alif Sankey of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” tour in a small Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, part of an ongoing trial in which Jackson’s family claims that concert promoter AEG Live is responsible for the late singer’s death.

CNN reports that on the stand, Sankey said she and tour director Kenny Ortega had a premonition that Jackson was going to die because he looked “extremely thin” and “was not speaking normally” at a rehearsal held June 19, 2009. Something else that prompted concern was Jackson telling Ortega, “God keeps talking to me.”

Sankey told jurors that after the rehearsal and Jackson left, she and Ortega cried because they knew something was wrong. While she was driving home, she got so emotional that she had to pull over. She remembers calling Ortega, and at one point screaming into the phone, telling him that Jackson needed medical attention. She explained, “I kept saying that ‘Michael is dying, he’s dying, he’s leaving us, he needs to be put in a hospital. ‘Please do something. Please, please.’ I kept saying that. I asked him why no one had seen what I had seen. He said he didn’t know.”

Sankey’s breakdown on the phone caused Ortega to set up a meeting at Jackson’s house with himself, Jackson, Murray and AEG Live President Randy Phillips. After the meeting took place, Phillips sent an email in which he expressed his confidence in Murray and wrote, “This doctor is extremely successful (we check everyone out) and does not need this gig, so he (is) totally unbiased and ethical.”

In the lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and three children, they assert that Murray was never checked out due to the fact that if he was, AEG would have known that Murray was in debt and at risk to break protocol in treating Jackson in order to keep his job, or more specifically his source of income. Lawyers for AEG claim that Murray was chosen and supervised by Jackson, not by their company and thus they shouldn’t be held at fault.

Murray gave Jackson daily infusions of surgical anesthetic propofol to help him sleep better and be well-rested for rehearsals. An overdose of propofol, in addition to several sedatives, was ruled the cause of the popstar’s death on June 25, 2009.