JACKO’S GIRL
Paris – just 11 when her father died of a drug-induced cardiac arrest – has kept away from the limelight, fearing comparisons that are impossible to live up to.
Now 22, she says she has realised music is “what I was born to do”.
Her late father Jacko, known as the King of Pop, is regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters ever.
In a six-part documentary about her life, called Unfiltered, Paris talks about her childhood and about feeling “pressure to follow in my dad’s footsteps, [to be] compared to him and scrutinised.”
She says in a trailer for the series: “You see a kid grow up in the public eye, you forget that I’m a human.
“I was against letting the world in, because it wasn’t a choice. I wasn’t ready then. I feel like I’m ready now.”
As part of that process, Paris allowed cameras to follow her as she prepared to launch an album with her musician boyfriend Gabriel Glenn.
The couple play together as folk band The Soundflowers.
She met Gabriel – her “muse” – in a rock ’n’ roll bar on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip.
Paris explains: “When I met Gabe, I immediately just vibed and started making music.
“I feel like we’re the same level of damaged. Gabe understands the pain I’ve gone through, and he’s helped me realise this is what I was born to do.”
The trailer promises the documentary will “pull back the curtain” with “honest conversation surrounding topics central to their lives, like spirituality, sexuality, music, family and more”.
A source says the show, to stream on Tuesday on Facebook Watch, aims to promote Paris’s talent “while giving a moving insight into her trials growing up as Michael Jackson’s kid”.
But an associate of the Jacksons made clear it will not go into detail about sexual abuse allegations against her father.
They said: “Her management and lawyers have kept a keen eye on protecting her from delving too much into Michael’s demons.
“It feels like the right time for Paris to share with the world her own journey, especially during her teenage years.
“And it is incredibly brave to take these steps discussing mental health and issues she contended with.
“But the subject of the allegations about Michael abusing two of his former child companions is not being raised in any detail.”
Jacko died in 2009 – 11 years ago this week – at the age of 50.
He had faced a string of allegations of abusing young boys he had befriended.
In 1993 he was sued by 13-year-old
Superstar Jacko
Proud Jacko holds young Paris in intimate family snap
We’re the same level of damaged, Gabe gets my pain PARIS JACKSON ON HER SUPPORTIVE BOYFRIEND
Paris walks in LA with Jacko three weeks before he died
Prince, Paris and Blanket at 2011 Cardiff tribute concert
Jordan Chandler. That was settled out of court for €20million, with no admission of wrongdoing. A trial in 2005 found him not guilty of abusing another boy, Gavin Arvizo, who had claimed he was also assaulted aged 13. Two others, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, made similar allegations after the singer’s death. The family associate added: “Paris going into a detailed discussion or defence of her father would