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Paris Jackson Talks About Her Father Michael Jackson, Pride In Her Black Roots, Relationship With Her Mother And More With Rolling Stone

<p>Back in 2009 the world unfortunately lost the King of Pop&comma; Michael Jackson&period; The legendary singer left behind a number of family members&comma; including his three children&comma; Michael&comma; Paris and Prince&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now his middle child and only girl&comma; Paris Jackson&comma; is opening up to <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;music&sol;features&sol;paris-jackson-michael-jacksons-daughter-speaks-out-w462501">Rolling Stone<&sol;a><&sol;em> about her father&comma; her ethnicity&comma; the current relationship with her mother&comma; Debbie Rowe and much more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For many years Michael Jackson has shielded his children from the media&comma; and many fans never really got to know what he was like as a father&period; Paris talked about not really realizing her father was an icon at such a young age&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I just thought his name was Dad&comma; Daddy&period; We didn&&num;8217&semi;t really know who he was&period; But he was our world&period; And we were his world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Paris also talked about some of the similarities that she shared with her father&period; She faced a dark period within her life and suffered from depression&period; She talked briefly about one of her suicide attempts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was actually crazy&period; I was going through a lot of&comma; like&comma; teen angst&period; And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fast-forward the 18-year-old is now in a better space within her life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also in the interview she also addressed the many rumors of Michael Jackson not being her biological father and her not really being black&period; She said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He is my father&period; He will always be my father&period; He never wasn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; and he never will not be&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When it comes to her being black she said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I consider myself black&period;” She added that her father&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;would look me in the eyes and he&&num;8217&semi;d point his finger at me and he&&num;8217&semi;d be like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;You&&num;8217&semi;re black&period; Be proud of your roots&period;&&num;8217&semi; And I&&num;8217&semi;d be like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;OK&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s my dad&comma; why would he lie to me&quest;&&num;8217&semi;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For many years Paris said that her mom did not exist to her&comma; but around the age of 10 she asked her father about her mother after realizing that a man cannot have children on his own&comma; she asked her mothers name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her father told her about her mother Debbie Rowe&comma; but the two wouldn’t get together until she was 13-years-old following her father’s death&period; She said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By the time my mom came into my life&comma; it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t a &&num;8216&semi;mommy&&num;8217&semi; thing&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s more of an adult relationship&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She named her grandmother&comma; Katherine Jackson&comma; her nannies and family members as the mother figures within her life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Be sure to check out the entire interview <strong><em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;music&sol;features&sol;paris-jackson-michael-jacksons-daughter-speaks-out-w462501">here<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;music&sol;features&sol;paris-jackson-michael-jacksons-daughter-speaks-out-w462501">http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;music&sol;features&sol;paris-jackson-michael-jacksons-daughter-speaks-out-w462501<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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