Paris Jackson, daughter of the late Michael Jackson, graces the cover of the February issue of Rolling Stone. The interview took place a...
The tone of the piece reflected the morbid location.
Paris opened up about her father, saying that nine of her 50 tattoos are dedicated to him. He still visits her in her dreams, she said. “I feel him with me all the time.” She wears a rope-and-jade bracelet that Michael had on when he died, saying, “It still smells like him.”
The 18-year-old blames Michael’s doctor, Conrad Murray, for her father’s dependency on propofol, but she is convinced that he was murdered. “He would drop hints about people being out to get him, and at some point he was like, ‘They’re gonna kill me one day’.”
Paris opened up about attempting suicide multiple times at the age of 15. “It was just self-hatred, low self-esteem, thinking that I couldn’t do anything right, not thinking I was worth living anymore.” For the first time, Paris spoke about being sexually assaulted by “a complete stranger” at age 14. She said, “It was really hard for me … I didn’t tell anybody.”
During the interview — for the one and only time, she said — Paris agreed to address the question about who her biological parents are, saying, “[Michael] is my father. He will always be my father.” Her brother, Prince Michael Jackson, says of Paris: “She is who my dad is. The only thing that’s different would be her age and her gender.”
In the interview, Paris reveals the advice Michael gave her when she was younger: “If you wanna be bigger than me, you can. If you don’t want to be at all, you can. But I just want you to be happy.”
