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From Daily Chores To Visits To Chuck E. Cheese, Michael Jackson’s Daughter, Paris Jackson, Just Reflected On Her Childhood...And It Sounds Surprisingly Normal
Дата публикации: 13-08-2026 14:10:43
The King of Pop’s only daughter has spoken out on everything from growing up on his famous Neverland Ranch to speaking at his memorial when she was just 11 years old.View Entire Post ›
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From Daily Chores To Visits To Chuck E. Cheese, Michael Jackson’s Daughter, Paris Jackson, Just Reflected On Her Childhood...And It Sounds Surprisingly Normal
The King of Pop’s only daughter has spoken out on everything from growing up on his famous Neverland Ranch to speaking at his memorial when she was just 11 years old.
As I am sure you know, Paris Jackson is the only daughter of music icon Michael Jackson, who died at age 50 in June 2009, when she was just 11 years old.
In addition to Paris, Michael — who was globally known as the King of Pop — shared a son, Michael Jr., also known as Prince, with Debbie Rowe, who he was married to between 1996 and 2000.
Prince and Paris were 3 and 2 years old, respectively, when Michael and Debbie divorced in 2000, and the star gained full custody of the children, meaning that they were raised solely by their father since they were toddlers.
In 2002, Michael welcomed a third child, Bigi, formerly known as Blanket, whose mom was an anonymous surrogate.
Michael was always incredibly private when it came to his children, but it is known that they had a very close relationship with him, with Paris even speaking during Michael’s televised memorial less than two weeks after his unexpected death.
Aged only 11, Paris concluded the service by telling mourners: “I just wanted to say, ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine.” Her relatives consoled her as she emotionally continued: “And I just wanted to say I love him so much,” before bursting into tears and being embraced by Michael’s sister, Janet Jackson.
After Michael’s death, Paris, Prince, and Bigi were raised by Michael’s mom, as well as their cousin, Tito Joe Jackson, also known as TJ.
Paris is now 28 years old, and embarking on a music career of her own. This week, she appeared on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast to discuss her upcoming album, her battle with addiction before getting sober in 2020, and she even lifted the lid on having one of the most famous people on the planet as a father — and it was all pretty fascinating.
Starting with her childhood, Alex asked Paris what it was like to grow up on Michael's famous Neverland Ranch — a huge 2,700-acre property in Santa Barbara County that had its own private amusement park, zoo, and even a train station. Surprisingly, Paris said that the ranch was never intended for her and her brothers, as it was first and foremost a haven for underprivileged children.
“I didn’t grow up there; it was only the first few years of my life that I was there,” Paris began, before referencing how she was homeschooled. She said: “I’d wake up, and we go to the room that was our classroom, and we would go to school. The very congruent line throughout my childhood that kind of started there, and then just continued on wherever we went was: ‘If you're good, and you do your chores, and you do your homework, and you do the things that you're supposed to do, then on the weekends you can go see some animals, and you can go ride some rides, and you can go to the movies.'”
“It was made very, very clear that all of the attractions, they were not for us. That did not belong to us,” Paris explained. “That was for, you know, underprivileged children and children that were terminally ill that couldn't go to Disneyland.”
And Paris detailed how this sentiment continued even when they weren’t living at Neverland, with her and her brothers being rewarded with everything from watching movies to a visit to Chuck E. Cheese, even when they were living in hotels. She said: “At one point, we wouldn’t stay in one place for more than a year, and we’d hotel-hop a lot. So it was, you know, if we were living in Vegas, it's like: ‘OK, if you're good, you can go to Circus Circus on the weekends,’ or we were in, like, some random place in Virginia, like: ‘OK, if you're good, you can go to Chuck E. Cheese this weekend.’ Same thing with television, like, we weren't allowed to watch television or movies and stuff either, unless we were studying it for film with the sound off or it was on the weekends if we had done everything we were supposed to.”
While it is arguably refreshing to hear that even the children of an A-lister had to complete chores and do their homework to earn privileges, other parts of Paris and her brothers’ upbringing was decidedly not normal, like having to wear masks and cover their faces any time they were out in public.
But Paris was nonchalant when asked about this, saying: “I mean, it just made sense because it was like: ‘Oh yeah, if you do this now, then you can go to Chuck E. Cheese and be normal this weekend because no one will know who you are.’ That made sense to me.”
And when Alex asked if it was ever “scary” to navigate the streams of fans and paparazzi that followed wherever Michael went, Paris replied: “I don't know that that was scary. I always felt, you know, protected. We always had security and, you know, sometimes crowds would get a little crazy, but there was still, like, this… There's an adult you can grab onto, right?”
She went on to explain that she uses her personal experience to “assist other people” who are in “pretty similar situations” now that she is on the other side of it.
Later in the interview, Paris revealed that speaking at her dad’s memorial was totally unplanned, and that she only spoke up after realizing that neither of her brothers were going to. She said: “It kind of just happened in the moment. It was kind of like [how] it happened on stage. It was like… They looked, and they're like: ‘Are one of the kids going to say something?’ And no one moved. So I was like: ‘Fuck it.’”
“They're like: ‘Someone's got to say something.’ I have not gone back to watch it, to see how quickly it all happened, but it felt like it happened very slowly, and it felt like: ‘Someone's got to say something. Little bro is not going to do it. Older bro is not moving. Alright.’”
And when Paris was asked what her dad would think of her music, she candidly shared: “I don’t like speaking for other people, but based on what I knew about him wanting me to be happy, I think because I'm happy, he would be satisfied with that.”
You can’t say fairer than that — let me know what you make of Paris’s revelations in the comments below!
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