United Kingdom, Feb. 10 -- Michael Jackson was ultimately destroyed by trusting and allowing damaging people into his life, his former bodyguard has claimed.

Matt Fiddes served as the late King of Pop's bodyguard and recalled how the pop superstar - who died at the age of 50 in June 2009 - frequently put his faith in the wrong individuals as "people would get in his ear".

Fiddes told the Stripping Off with Matt Haycox podcast: "He was the creator of his own destiny but he was very bad at trusting the wrong people.

"In the 10 years I knew him he must have gone through about 12 different managers, some of them very good and some very bad.

"People would get in his ear, the latest friend, the latest family member. People would get in his ...