LA TOYA JACKSON fought back tears on U.K. TV as she recalled how her mother screamed down the phone when she found out her son MICHAEL had died.

La Toya was on her way to hospital after receiving an urgent call from her father Joe telling her that the King of Pop had been taken ill.

But the star admits she almost crashed the car after hearing her grief-stricken mother Katherine shout down the phone that her beloved brother had passed away just minutes before she arrived at the medical facility.

And La Toya reveals the initial call eerily came just moments after she had been discussing the passing of actress Farrah Fawcett - who died on the same say as Jackson in June (09).

She tells Britain’s GMTV, “I was actually at home, my father called me. I was speaking with my business partner, who had just told me about Farrah (Fawcett). And I said, ‘Oh my, who’s next?’ Because it always happens in threes. And the next thing, my father had called me and said, ‘I need to you to rush over to the hospital immediately.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ And he said, ‘It’s your brother, Michael. They took him to the hospital.’ He called back five minutes later and said, ‘You have to go there, you have to. I hear it’s serious, you have to go to the hospital.’

“I was driving over to the hospital and I was speaking to my mother’s assistant, and I kept asking how he was doing, and he (the assistant) just wouldn’t answer me. And I heard my mother in the background say, ‘Who is that?’ And she grabbed the phone and screamed down the phone, screamed at the top of her lungs, ‘He’s dead, he’s dead.’ And I heard it and I almost crashed the car so many times as I tried to get over there, even though I was only three minutes away.”

The Thriller hitmaker died on 25 June (09), after suffering a cardiac arrest. Farrah Fawcett died earlier the same day following a long battle with cancer.