Los Angeles (CNN) -- AEG Live considered "pulling the plug" on Michael Jackson's comeback concerts 11 days before the pop icon died, the show's choreographer testified Tuesday. Travis Payne, who worked closely with Michael Jackson in his final days, earlier testified that in Jackson's last rehearsals before his death, he was "not at show standards but he was rehearsing, he was processing." Payne was called as a witness by AEG Live to counter Jackson witnesses who testified in the ongoing wrongful death trial that Michael Jackson was emaciated, paranoid and so ill they feared for his life as rehearsals continued until shortly before his death on June 25, 2009.
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NEW: Jackson was having trouble learning dances, choreographer Travis Payne says
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NEW: "It was 'We've got to get this together or the plug may be pulled,'" Payne says
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Payne testifies in the Jackson wrongful death trial
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Jackson was "on his way to the goals he had set for himself" before his death, Payne says
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