Absolutely. No doubt about it, and all of these frantic trips to the hospital are for PR also. He's sending a message, primarily (he hopes) to whichever jurors will be breaking the rules, and catching up on news items. He is being the victim of persecution, of racism, of that big bad conspiracy that is just wickedly trying to take his half of the Beatles catalogue away from him. Oh the cruelty of it........so bad, just so so bad that it is making him very very ill, and it's all "their" fault. It's "them," "those bad people out there"....in New York and in the DA's office in Santa Maria. Just makes Michael very very ill.
That's the deal with the trips to the hospital. Pure BS. When he was in that trial over breach of contract, if you recall, he claimed that he'd been bitten by a spider and made sure that the cameras caught him hobbling around on crutches with his foot bandaged.
He invents different "accidents" and ailments, one after another. Quite creative of him, but I don't know who - other than the demented "fans" outside of the courthouse - who are buying this cherade.
Char :)
LOL!! He'll have to pick a race first to be a victim of racism!