joejacksonmad.jpg It just never ends...

In a new interview with News Of The World, Joe Jackson blames wife Katherine for the King of Pop's downward spiral which eventually led to his death.

Joe recalls the day Michael died, saying, "Katherine was weeping uncontrollably and highly upset. But I didn't give her a hug because I was mad at her crying. I said, 'If you had listened to me Michael would be living now!' I kept thinking about the times I had stood in front of her saying something was wrong. I couldn't bottle up my feelings. Katherine didn't say a word - I had to get away from her. If she'd done what I asked, Michael would be here today. I am incensed with her. She could have made a difference."

"In Michael's final months alive I said to her many times that I couldn't get through to him - and that she needed to help her son," Joe added. "I had begged her to go over and stay with him, but she insisted he needed his privacy and gave him the slack she thought he needed. A child will listen to his mother more than his father - and Michael was a mummy's boy. He listened to her. I still haven't been able to talk about it to her as she doesn't want to hear what I have to say."

However, despite all the negativity, Joe says the children are coping well. "The first few months were hard, but now they are enjoying their life in Encino," says Joe. "Michael made sure they had a strict upbringing, and made sure they studied hard and were only allowed to watch TV at weekends. He was a great, but strict father. Now those kids are the smartest and Michael's trained them to be aware of the world and its perils."

Joe added, "We have given them more freedom and they seem to love it. They now have TVs and computers. Paris is the leader of them. She is growing up fast and has to be watched closely. I am pretty sure she can be anything she wants to be. Like all the Jacksons she has that showbiz gene."