Comments on: Paris Jackson Calls Michael ‘The Best Father You Can Ever Imagine’

By: Mon

Mon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:17:16 +0000

I feel so much for these children. I agree with the previous poster, I wonder what Michael would have thought having his kids exposed like that, but I guess this was a totally different situation. They are beautiful children, and Michael was a beautiful person inside and out. I never beleived for a minute that he was a child molester. He had a child-like heart and just wanted to recapture what he had lost himself as a child. He had such an amazing soul and I wish there were more people in the world like him
I will truely miss Michael Jackson and the great things he gave to the world.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:23:49 +0000

It was very touching but I can’t help but to wonder what Michael would have thought. He masked and sheltered the kids to keep them out of the publics eye and now the are front and center. All that work he did was for nothing. I hope they can grow up normal.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:29:28 +0000

I lost my mom to cancer when I was 13. Brooke’s speech had me bawling, but that little girl sent me over the edge. Way over the edge. What a sweet little soul. It’s disgusting to me that people still think Michael hurt children. If my child was molested, I wouldn’t want money…and he was acquitted on every single charge. Al Sharpton’s speech was amazing “Nothing strange about your daddy. What was strange was what he had to deal with.”

I’m glad they are now seeing how much he was and is adored around the world, but am so sad that this is how it happened. How could anyone not want to just hold on to her and tell her it’ll be alright? I hope his little ones make it through this alright.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:33:33 +0000

Daisy; i 100% agree with your last comment. RIP x

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:04:39 +0000

I watched the memorial with my mom and was holding my 8 week old son when I heard her speak about her father. I really lost it then and had to try to re-focus because I didn’t want my baby to sense me getting upset. That was the saddest moment of the memorial for me – hands down. I’m sure the Staples arena didn’t have a dry eye at that moment.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:50:58 +0000

Just to add another bit, as we were watching the memorial my mother made a comment that was so true. If half of the lovely things that have been said about MJ since he passed were said to or about him in recent years, we might not be sitting here watching a young family mourn.

By: elo

elo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:43:50 +0000

Prince Michael was also very emotional… You can see it when La Toya gives him a tissue at the entrance of jackson’s casket. And Paris made a touching speech!! MJ would be so proud of his brave daughter.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:56:56 +0000

I remember reading Lorna Luft’s memoir about her life as Judy Garland’s daughter, and Lorna explaining what it was like to lose such a famous parent.
‘My brother and sister and I lost a mother, not a legend. We had to deal not only with the overwhelming grief, but the public exposure of that grief, and the belief of thousands that they felt the same pain we did. They did not. They definitely did feel loss, but not the loss of a beloved parent.’
That’s the thing to remember, i think. To these children, Michael Jackson was their father. Not a legend or an icon, simply their father whom they thought the world of (despite what others thought). For the Jackson family, because Michael was such a public figure, they don’t have the luxury of grieving in private. The world has lost a superstar, but these children have lost their father forever. They now have to find a way to live without him, and that makes my heart break. No child should have to bury a parent.

By: lulumay

lulumay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:54:06 +0000

Mia, they told Paris to speak into the mic b’c she didn’t know that she needed to. It is a normal thing to say to anyone who is not used to speaking publicly. I also think that while it is understandable why MJ wanted his kids “hidden” during his life, I think it makes sense that now the world “sees” the kids, in a respectful way, to show that they are normal, happy & loved.

Little Paris proved that & I think her father would have been proud.

I work with kids for a living: there is NO way you could force a child to get up & speak the way she did on that venue in front of 20K people. No way.

By: RIP Michael

RIP Michael — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:18:05 +0000

Paris certainly endured herself to the world yesterday.
Man teenagers are friggin smart.

Teresa u certainly don’t seem 14!