Paris Jackson’s relationship with her mother, Debbie Rowe, was many years in the making.
“I remember, you know, kind of asking about it when I was probably around, like, 10 or 11 and the answers I got were, you know, sufficient to me,” Jackson, 28, said on the Wednesday, August 12, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “Just like, ‘Oh, what’s her name?’ I got told her name and I’m like, ‘All right, cool,’ like, [I] moved on.”
Paris is the daughter of the late Michael Jackson and Rowe, 67, who also shared son Prince, 29. (Michael, who died in 2009 at age 50, was also the father of son Bigi, 24, whom he welcomed via surrogate.)
Paris was a teenager when she initially met her mother.
“We connected when I was about 15 and then really started getting closer towards the end of my teen years and things like that,” Paris recalled. “I remember coming downstairs and she was in the living room with my grandma. I came in and I was just like, ‘Hey, mom.’ And she was like, ‘Hi.’ I sat down, we talked for a second, and then we went out for the day and just hung out. She’s a [Sagittarius], so she’s got the fire, and I’m an Aries, so I got the fire. We’re very similar.”
As Paris and Rowe have continued to get to know each other through the years, their bond has solidified even more.
“I think what’s really cool about my process, in general, is learning how expectations kind of f*** us up,” Paris noted to podcast host Alex Cooper. “If I walk into a relationship with expectations, probably going to end up being, maybe, disappointed or frustrated or irritated or a resentment will be born or something.”
Paris added, “When I walk into something and I don’t have expectations, it creates this really cool space for something organic to just blossom. I’d say it’s gotten more refined [over the years].”
Paris and her brothers primarily grew up with their dad. (After his death, Paris and her siblings moved in with their grandmother.)
“I knew he was famous. I just didn’t know how famous,” Paris admitted of the late King of Pop. “There was definitely part of me that, like, when I looked out my hotel window — and it was one of the times where, like, the alias didn’t work — and there’s just a sea of people with signs and stuff. I’m not so naive to think, ‘Yeah, everyone experiences this.’ I just didn’t understand the lengths.”
Michael Jackson left more than an extensive musical legacy and his former estate of Neverland Ranch behind when he died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009 — the King of Pop also had three children. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Enter your email Please enter a valid email. […]
Michael famously protected his kids’ privacy, going so far as having Paris and her brothers wear masks whenever they were out in public.
“I mean, it 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,’” Paris stated. “That made sense to me. … Spiders, loss [would scare me growing up]. I don’t know [if the public attention] 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 an adult you [could] grab on to.”
