Michael Jackson's Kids Remember Their Father on 'Oprah'

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Nov 8th 2010 03:45PM

Michael Jackson's children and mother said on Monday's episode of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' that they're still learning to cope with his death a year and a half after the pop star overdosed on a powerful anesthetic.

Jackson's oldest children, 13-year-old Prince and 12-year-old Paris, said they are adjusting well to private school, although their younger brother, Blanket, 8, is still home-schooled. The children have been living with grandmother Katherine Jackson, who is their guardian, since their father's death in June 2009.

In the pre-taped interview, Katherine Jackson said Blanket, whose given name is Prince Michael Jackson II, is shy but now wants to attend school next year, when he'll be in fourth grade.

The children were taped in the Jackson's back yard with several cousins and spoke about their memories of their father.

Prince, whose birth name is Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., said he and his father often walked the beach early in the morning drinking Coca Cola and eating Skittles or Snickers. Paris said he took her to art museums and was "the best cook ever."

Katherine Jackson said she wants to give the children as normal a childhood as possible, and is more lenient than her son was - including when he made the children wear veils in public.

Paris said the veils weren't always comfortable but that they wore them so "when we went out without our dad nobody would really recognize us," and she appreciated that he was trying to protect them.

"I think no one understands what a good father he was," Paris said.

Katherine Jackson also told Winfrey that she believes her son was addicted to plastic surgery, and once even asked his surgeon to pretend that he'd operated on Jackson's nose if he ever asked for another surgery. She said she was concerned that his nose kept getting smaller and that it looked "like a toothpick at one time."

She said her son was insecure about his looks, and "one day made up his mind to get his nose done."

Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, also appeared in a brief interview with his wife and denied to Winfrey that he had beaten his children, as Michael Jackson had told Winfrey in a 1993 interview. But when prodded by his wife, who said "you might as well admit it," Joe Jackson acknowledged whipping them with a strap to keep them out of trouble.

Joe and Katherine Jackson also denied that they had ever filed for divorce, though Joe Jackson - who in an interview last year blamed his wife for their son's death - said he thinks his wife "is too easy with people ... just like Michael."

Michael Jackson physician Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly improperly administering a mixture of sedatives, including the anesthetic propofol, in an attempt to get the chronic insomniac to sleep. Murray has pleaded not guilty.

Last month, Jackson's brother Randy complained about the interview in a series of posts on Twitter, saying he disagreed with his parents allowing the interview.

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Monday 08 November

By Ray

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One needs to seperate the person from the entertainer... Michael was a great entertainer as was Elvis. As for his sexual flaws with children and othewise... these are matters for his family to evualuate and wrestle with... now that he's dead.

By Scott

Michael was used set-up and murdered by a force you are unaware of, yes murdered not overdosed

By naxiehdibax

Dads and moms dissing MJ while they get drunk in front of there own kids or mom who is single bringing man over to the house. The kids the next week are like mom where's so and so? She can't answer because she knows it was a one night stand.I love this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via agegapsingl es.c 'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends.. Just love it

By asuigeneris1

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Considering the most zealous people attempted to make a case against the man and never could...there seems little to the "sexual flaws with children" theory.

A man wanted a career as a screenwriter, so he he blackmailed Jackson...and he used his own child to do it, which is pretty heinous stuff.

Look what it got him though, his own child disowned him and he took his own life within months after Jackson's death.

Sad thing is, once one bottom feeder cuts a man...takes a bite, the rest of the bloodsuckers will find their moments to attack.

Once the wounds are made, they never heal.

...and every lowlife from then on will smell the rotting flesh of those wounds and try to feed.

Tuesday 09 November

By dvdfrnzwbr

I wonder if Michael's kids ever wonder who their biological father was?

Friday 12 November

By Tell It Like It Is

Ray- Lies media told which were riddled with flaws more like it.

By Cutie

They seem like great kids as do their cousins. I wish them well.

.......the child who said he was molested later said as an adult his father made him accuse for money. I think unless you were there or there were more children involved no one can say its true.

By Amy

The kids seem like normal kids. Was surprised when Paris said Michael cooked for them-would have never thought that. He seemed to have been a good dad-was kind of touching when they told of their memories of him.

By SUE

It's so sad that MJ allowed his life to get so out of control. The kids seem like good kids. Was surprised at how grown up and well spoken Paris seems.

By frank

the kids will probably do a lot better now that wacko jacko is gone. and even better whrn they grow up and get away from wacko's parents.

By Dave

How Cruel, to say a child is better off that his dad is dead, heartless people make me sick.

By YOU ARE

YES, GET AWAY WITH THE MONEY. WHAT A HOT MESS. POOR ;ITTLE RICH WHITE KIDS. LMAO

By janilee

Frank, You are such a negative person. What made you that way? I mean, you don't know Michael at ALL by your posts. He was a child star, who worked to lift his family out of poverty and gave over 300 million dollars to charities. He was in the Guiness Book OF World Records for having given the most to charities EVER. (and another time for having sold the most records EVER). Do you know that he was good friends with Gregory Peck and arranged his funeral? That he gave Marlon Brando work in his videos and a place to stay and was a good friend of his? Did you know that Michael Jackson was nominated for the Nobel peace prize TWICE? His children loved him, so obviously he was a great dad to them. How are they better off without him? They love their grandparents, how would they be better of without them? You really have a sick, cruel, and nasty heart. So sad for you.

By Keri

YOU'RE THE WHACKO. YOU PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SPELL..

By BIG MAMA CORNBREAD

As AL said....there was nothing strange about MICHEAL JACKSON....what he had to deal with in this world was strange.

By sensibility2

You just heard from a man that, evidently did not have a father, to value one. And probably has a child out there that can't call him a father because he does not know how to be one.

By Carlos

the problem with frank is that he grew up without a father he doesn't know what it is to have one and to love him he probably doesn't know how to be one either.
those are beautiful kids god bless them.

By Marcyshamb

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They really have never known anything else.. and most kids think their lives, especially if sheltered from other families situations, are ideal..most kids also love their parents regardless, and miss them.

I believe Michael Jackson was a great artist, but a very twisted soul/personality, one that was made twisted by his parents and the lifestyle of being a child performer. If he had been poor and not famous the kids would have been taken away from him. Didn't he have them to prove he was manly in the face of the sexual misconduct...and then, used serrogate mom and someone elses spirm which was the very opposite of what he was trying to prove???

I feel sorry for the innocient boy that was born to a nasty father and entertainment family. He grew up to be severely troubled in many ways, not just sexually. True that many gifted folks are troubled, but it seems that his environment and family life really shaped his.

I don't think he nor his parents were and are good for those or any children.

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