On June 25, 2009, star singer Michael Jackson died, leaving behind two children. Paris Jackson, the youngest, was then 9 years old. She celebrates her 25th birthday this Monday, April 3. Very close to his fatherwho was then a young girl, had a lot of trouble recovering from the shock and grieving. “I was so young. I was just going with the flow and didn’t really understand what was going on, so I did what I was told to do…”confided the young woman to Willow Smith (the daughter of Will Smtih) in 2021, while she participated in the Red Table Talk podcast.
After a very difficult period where she made several suicide attemptsParis Jackson has learned to deal with it, as she explained in 2017 in the columns of Rolling Stone. “I move forward in my life with the idea that I lost the only thing that was ever important to me. In the future, whatever happens to me can’t be as bad as what happened before, so I can handle it.”she theorizes for the American magazine. “I feel it with me all the time.”
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Paris Jackson: who is her mother?
If Paris Jackson is very famous for being the daughter of Michael Jackson, his mother is much less known of the general public. Assistant to Michael Jackson’s dermatologist at the time of his romance with the star, her name is Debbie Rowe. Paris Jackson’s parents were married from 1996 to 1999. The couple had two children together: Prince and Paris. The youngest is only one year old when her parents divorce and then stop seeing his mother.
Paris Jackson and Debbie Rowe reunite following Michael Jackson’s death. “It’s cool, getting to know her, seeing how much alike we are, finding out what kind of music she likes (country and folk), I send her stuff I’m working on”confided the young woman in her interview with Rolling Stone. “We look a lot alike. It’s just cool to have her as a friend. It’s very relaxed between us, which I love!”
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