She had a lot to say in this sit-down!
Paris Jackson covers the newest issue of
Rolling Stone, and the teenager didn't hold back on discussing her famous dad Michael, as well as her battles with depression and anxiety. Her biggest revelation? She thinks her pop star father was murdered!
MJ's only daughter believes that both Dr. Conrad Murray and concert promoter AEG Live are responsible for his death. "AEG Live does not treat their performers right. They drain them dry and work them to death," she explained.
Apparently, the legendary icon suspected someone was out to get him. "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.' It sounds like a total conspiracy theory and it sounds like bulls---t, but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup. It was bulls---t," she vented.
The 17-year-old also touched on the "Man In The Mirror" crooner's child molestation accusations, and is adamant those couldn't be farther from the truth.
"[Michael] would cry to me at night. He did not bulls---t us. You try to give kids the best childhood possible. But you also have to prepare them for the shitty world. Picture your parent crying to you about the world hating him for something he didn’t do. And for me, he was the only thing that mattered. To see my entire world in pain, I started to hate the world because of what they were doing to him. I’m like, ‘How can people be so mean?’†she said.
Rumors have swirled for years that Paris and her brothers weren't actually Michael's biological children, but she says she doesn't even question her genetics.
"He is my father. He will always be my father. He never wasn’t, and he never will not be. People that knew him really well say they see him in me, that it’s almost scary. I consider myself black. [Dad] would look me in the eyes and he’d point his finger at me and he’d be like, ‘You’re black. Be proud of your roots.’ And I’d be like, ‘Ok, he’s my dad, why would he lie to me?’ So I just believe what he told me. ‘Cause, to my knowledge, he’s never lied to me,†she insisted.
After Jackson's passing, Paris attempted suicide multiple times and ultimately wound up in rehab to deal with her issues.
"I was doing a lot of things that 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds shouldn’t do. I tried to grow up too fast, and I wasn’t really that kind of a person. I’m a completely different person. I was crazy. I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help," she confessed, adding that she had been sexually assaulted at age 14. "I don’t wanna give too many details. But it was not a good experience, at all, and it was really hard for me, and, at the time, I didn’t tell anybody," she added.
This is a lot to cope with for someone so young. Poor girl!
