Overview
- Paris Jackson told podcast host Alex Cooper that she first met her biological mother, Debbie Rowe, at about age 15 and that their bond deepened toward the end of her teen years.
- She described the first meeting as casual, saying she walked downstairs, greeted Rowe with 'Hey, Mom,' chatted briefly and then spent the day together.
- Jackson said her early years were shaped by strict privacy measures from Michael Jackson, including homeschooling, hotel moves, limited access to Neverland attractions and wearing masks in public to protect anonymity.
- She linked sustained sobriety, therapy and coaching to clearer personal limits and said those changes helped her decide to call off a recent engagement to Justin Long.
- The account updates longstanding family facts that Rowe and Michael Jackson married in 1996, divorced in 2000 with Rowe giving Michael custody, and that Paris and her brothers were raised largely by their grandmother after Michael Jackson’s 2009 death.