Prince, the eldest son of singer Michael Jackson, has released new revelations about the star’s mental health…
Was Michael Jackson “paranoid”? This is according to his son, Prince, invited for an interview in the podcast called Hotboxin’ of legendary boxer, Mike Tyson, available on Youtube. For more than an hour, the eldest of the King of Pop entrusted some memories kept on his father, who died in 2009 in troubled conditions. Now 26, Prince, whose full name is Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., is the eldest son of Michael and his second wife, Debbie Rowe, with whom he also has a daughter, Paris.
In this interview, Prince remembers his father as a “paranoid” person: “He would come home worried about his safety, about his career, about his possessions… because he felt like he was pissing off the people. bad people,” Prince says, adding that “it put a target on his back.” “He could never go out, he was constantly surrounded,” he adds, emphasizing the difficulty of living normally while being the “King of Pop”.
This very special childhood, the eldest son of Michael Jackson keeps strange memories. “I grew up always being surrounded by fans,” Prince tells Mike Tyson. He says: “It was only after his death and when I was better integrated into normal society that I realized that it was not normal to be surrounded by people like that (…). Him, he has been through this since he was six years old (…) so you get used to it. Michel Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles.
Prince, Michael Jackson’s eldest son, was born in 1997. In the interview with Mike Tyson, he also said that his “biggest regret was that I never had the opportunity to see him before” on the scene. “I had the opportunity to see him perform at Madison Square Garden just before 9/11, during the Jackson Five reunion,” adds the young man, concluding: “It’s the only time I ever saw him. ‘ve seen play.”
Among the other anecdotes told in this podcast, Prince explains having encountered many personalities during his childhood, around his father, such as Nelson Mandela, Beyoncé or Diana Ross. Evoking the latter, who was “a great friend” of Michael Jackson, the artist’s eldest son says that in his last wishes, he would have liked the American singer to take care of his children if his own mother, Katherine Jackson , was not capable of it.