Michael Jackson Pal: His Kids Are "Holding On"
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One of Michael Jackson's longtime family friends says his kids Prince, Paris and Blanket are still coping with the death of their father. The kids, 13, 12 and 8 respectively, were not photographed at any public memorials on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the King of Pop's death.
"They're holding on and trying to do what they can by the graces of God," Marshall Thompson of the Chi-Lites told UsMagazine.com at a memorial for the King of Pop at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday.
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Lawrence Hilton, who starred as Joe Jackson in The Jacksons: an American Dream and has known the family for 35 years, tells Us it's "tough" to reconcile Jackson's death at 50.
"You don't get over it," he says. "You know, it's their daddy. How do you do it? They're very young, so it's got to be difficult.... It's gonna take one day at a time, moment to moment and eventually they'll get there."
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The kids spent the eve of Jackson's death in Hawaii with their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, who is also their legal guardian. The next day, Katherine flew to the family's hometown of Gary, Ind. to present a memorial.
In an interview with UK Daily Mail, Katherine admitted the kids are isolated.
"I'd say I'm a little less strict but I've tried to follow the way Michael was raising them," she said. "But they don't have friends. They don't go to school. They have private lessons at home. They'll be going to a private school in September for the first time."
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Paris created a shrine to her father bedroom. "I wanted to hang pictures of flowers or ballerinas, like I would expect a girl would," explained Katherine. "But she went into the closet and she brought out seven or eight pictures of Michael and said, 'No, I want Daddy hanging in my room. I always want to see him.' So she goes to bed looking at him and wakes up looking at him."
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16sorry to tell all but these kids are michaels and everybody just needs to leave him alone so they can live in piece and enjoy their lives like michael would have wanted but he is not here to tell all you guys where to go and to leave his kids alone and just let them be kids like you would have wanted if they were you rest in peace michael joseph jackson and much love to his family indiana will always remeber all of you and you are all missed very much by indiana residents love always b from indiana
I am so sad that these childrens has no daddy.....Who is gonna be thier next Daddy....NO-ONE.....They only got one daddy & thats Michael.....Your daddy is watching over you all & maybe hes so sad that hes left you for a better place.....R.I.P. Michael..xxxxxxxxx
Bless these Beautiful childrens that god has given Michael...I feel for them in my heart & hoping in the future they will be like thier daddy....Blowing you all my L.O.V.E. for you PRINCE, PARIS, & BLANKET all the way from New Zealand xxxxxxxxxx
prince is Michael's biological children pic here http://a.abcnews.om/images/Entertainment/npg_prince_michael_100701_mn.jpg
Cherubim - I too hope that god will carry on allowing Michael to pray over his children from heaven. I have NO doubts that they are all his biologically. What a load of disgusting s--t the tabloids and general media are for still peddling the nasty untrue stories about them and their father. Like Michael once said - we should have a mass burning of the tabloids. For good I wish.
It's sad they lost their dad so young!And yes all 3are MJs biological children,they all show those strong Jackson features
Michael has done such a wonderful job in raising his children. I hope and pray they will always stay grounded and make him very proud.
They all have some looks of their father especially the young one
Prince actually is Michael's biological son - he's inherited vitiligo, which is passed on in an autosomal dominant manner from parent to child. This photo of Prince shows a large patch of vitiligo. http://w w w.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/3030955/Fans-mark-first-anniversary-of-Michael-Jacksons-death.html
My prayers are with these children...and in some interesting way, they do kind of resemble M.J. Hummm???? Sweet kids regardless !!!
Is it my imagination or does Blanket have Michael's eyes???
Let bring some sense of peace to these beautiful children of his... Time for the Media to stop the lies of 20 yrs.. Let there be truth... MJJJusticeProject..... because It's Time
June 28, 2010 - 1:49pm Kittie6 Says: It would be great if MJ's kids are talented and choose music as their profession, but it won't be a bio inheritance. At the very least, the older two are not his biological kids. -------------------------------- Kittie6 you are so wrong! There are pictures of Prince I in Hawaii and you can clearly see he is showing signs of vitiligo under his right arm. I would suspect he has other large white patches on other parts of his body. Do your research and stop playing into the tabloid garbage. People are beginning to notice the media have stop showing those pictures of Prince I. They are only showing Paris and Blanket. They noticed the patch but want to keep the controversy going and have people like you to continue to think that the children are not MJâ??s biological children.
It would be great if MJ's kids are talented and choose music as their profession, but it won't be a bio inheritance. At the very least, the older two are not his biological kids.
My prayer is that God will allow Michael Jackson to continue to watch over his children from Heaven.
Good for them! I hope they all turn out to be as musically talented as their dad!