He said he received a call from his mother, Katherine, and later rushed to the UCLA Medical Center. There, he met with his brother's three young children and viewed his body with them. "[My mom] was crying, saying he was dead. And, Matt, to hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine," he said.

"To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell," he continued. "But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'