The heiress of the late “King of Pop” opened up about her battles with addiction and depression. Details of a turbulent life
In a shocking and candid interview with Rolling Stone magazine , Paris Jackson—the only daughter of the late “King of Pop” Michael Jackson—revealed that she attempted suicide on several occasions due to severe depression and also revealed that she was raped by a stranger at age 14.
Although Paris—now 18—made headlines for a suicide attempt in 2013, the superstar’s daughter revealed it wasn’t just a one-time occurrence.
“I tried to commit suicide several times ,” the young woman told the aforementioned publication. In June of that year, drowning in depression and drug addiction, she attempted to kill herself by slitting her wrists.
Suicidal thoughts began after her father’s death in 2009. “They always say time heals, but it really doesn’t. You just end up getting used to it,” she explained to the publication. “I lost the one thing that mattered most to me. (…) So, from now on, nothing bad can happen. (…) I feel it with me all the time .”
Paris also inflicted pain on himself through self-harm. He covered many of the scars he has on his body today with some of his 50 tattoos.
Far from those difficult times, Paris reflects: “I hated myself. I thought I couldn’t do anything right, that I wasn’t worthy of living anymore. I was doing a lot of things a girl shouldn’t do. I tried to grow up too fast, and I wasn’t that kind of person . ”
The new face of Chanel—who struggled with addiction and depression for a long time—was also sexually abused at age 14. Although she declined to elaborate on the incident, she said she was attacked by a stranger. “It wasn’t a good experience at all, and it was very difficult for me. I didn’t tell anyone at the time.”
The pop icon had Paris and his older brother, Prince, with Debbie Rowe, a patient he was married to for several years. Years later, Jackson fathered his third child, Blanket, with a surrogate mother.
Michael Jackson protected his children so much from media harassment that they even wore masks in public. At a tribute following the singer’s death, Paris, then 11, surprised the audience by taking the stage and saying that Michael was “the best father you could imagine.”
In the Rolling Stone interview , the model and aspiring actress
said she was “absolutely” convinced the “Thriller” singer was murdered, and pointed to doctor Conrad Munrray as one of the main people responsible for the musician’s early death.
“He was dropping hints about people trying to hunt him down. And at one point he said, ‘They’ll kill me one day,’” she said. “It sounds like a complete conspiracy theory and it sounds like a lie, but the real fans and the family know it. They set him up. It was all a lie.”
As if that weren’t enough, Paris promises that one day she will avenge the death of the man she loved most: ” It’s like a game of chess. I’m trying to play it right. And that’s all I can say right now . “
During their candid chat, Willow asked what it was like having her mother come into her life at the age of 15.
Speaking about meeting her and getting to know her, Paris said: “It’s cool.
“Getting to know her, seeing how similar we are.
“Getting into what kind of music she likes and she really likes country and folk.
Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris breaks silence on relationship with mum Debbie Rowe (Image: GETTY)
The singer continued: “We look exactly alike. It’s just cool having her as a friend.
“It’s very chill, which I love, it’s the perfect word to describe it.”
Paris is Debbie and Michael’s daughter, along with her brother Prince.
Debbie is an American dermatology assistant who met the singer when working at Arnold Klein’s office.
This is where he was being treated for vitiligo.
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The pair married in 1996 in Sydney before Debbie gave birth to their first son in February 1997 and Paris in April 1998.
However, Michael and Debbie divorced in 1999 and the singer received full custody of their children.
This meant Paris and her brother Prince lived with their father full time and didn’t know their mother.
In 2001, Debbie went before a private judge to have her parental rights terminated but attempted to reverse this decision in 2004.
Taking the stand during the 2005 People v. Jackson case, she explained she had been allowed limited visits to the children, for eight hours every 45 days.
Following Michael’s death in 2009, she reached a settlement with Katherine Jackson to have supervised visitations.
However, in recent years, it seems Paris has grown closer to her biological mother.
Elsewhere in her conversation with Willow, Paris opened up about losing her dad at a young age.
She explained: “I don’t know, it kind of just happened. I was so young.
“I was just going through the motions and didn’t really understand what was happening and so I just went with what I was told to do…
“I didn’t really have much guidance.”