Michael Jackson's children
MICHAEL Jackson's children have told talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey they did not mind wearing blankets on their heads.
In their first ever sit-down interview, Michael Jackson's three children, Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket, said on The Oprah Winfrey Show that their father tried to keep his fame a secret from them, The NY Post reported.
"He tried to raise us without knowing who he was, but that didn't go so well," blue-eyed Paris told Winfrey, as she and her brothers recalled Coca-Cola and candy-fuelled early morning walks on the beach in Bahrain and late nights on the roof of their Las Vegas home to bask in the glittering lights of the strip.
The children also said they appreciated how their dad would make them wear veils over their heads when they went out in public - a familiar but strange sight that appeared in newspapers around the world for years.
"Did you know at the time why you were putting on the mask?" Winfrey asked.
"Yeah," said Prince, wearing a tie-dyed purple shirt and a large pendant around his neck. "He did it because then nobody would really recognise us."
"It wasn't always comfortable, but I appreciated it," Paris said.
Prince said he wants to produce and direct movies some day.
Paris said she wants to be an actress.
The interview was taped several weeks ago in the backyard of grandmother Katherine Jackson's home in Los Angeles, where the children live with her and four of their cousins, the children of Randy and Jermaine Jackson.
Both Katherine and Jackson's father Joe were also interviewed.
Michael Jackson spent years claiming Joe beat him and whipped him with a strap as a child - charges Joe did not deny and even said he would do again if he could.
"I'm glad he was raised in such a way," Joe Jackson said. "He could have been like some of the other kids from Gary (Jackson's hometown), either dead or doing a lot of drugs or in jail or something."
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