Paris Jackson recalls strict rule she and her siblings were given on Neverland Ranch by dad Michael
You might think that having a music legend for a father would mean no rules and that anything goes, but Paris Jackson has revealed it was quite the opposite.
Paris has shared the rule her famous father put in place for her alongside her two brothers.
Michael Jackson had his beloved Neverland Ranch, and tried to give his children as much privacy and as normal a life as possible following his own childhood in the public eye.
Paris appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast, and at one point revealed that Michael was actually a pretty strict parent.
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Many people assume that being the king of pop's daughter, living on what was essentially a theme park, would mean every day was fun.
Not so, it seems.
Paris said on the podcast: "I'd wake up and go to school," however for the children it wasn't a mainstream school.
"I'd wake up, and we'd go to the room that was our classroom and would go to school," she recalled.
As for the strict rules, she revealed: "The cool, very congruent line throughout my childhood that kind of started there and just continued on wherever we went was if you're good, and you do your chores, and you do your homework, and you do the things that you're supposed to do, then on the weekends you can go see some animals and you can go ride some rides and you can go to the movies."
That sounds like a fair deal to us!
She added: "It was made very, very clear that all of the attractions there were not for us. They did not belong to us. That was for, you know, underprivileged children and children that were terminally ill that couldn't go to like Disneyland."
Paris, now 28, added that the rules didn't just apply for Neverland either, but for when they joined Michael on tour: "At one point we wouldn't stay in one place for more than a year and we'd hotel hopped a lot."
"If we were living in Vegas it was like, 'Okay, if you're good, you can go to Circus Circus on the weekends,' or like we were in like some random place in Virginia, 'Okay, if you're good, you can go to Chuck E. Cheese this weekend.'"
She said her dad was strict about the TV, too: "It was the same thing with like television, we weren't allowed to watch television or movies and stuff either unless we were studying it for film with the sound off or you know, it was on the weekends if we had like done everything we were supposed to."
Paris also talked about the high-profile decision to have the kids wearing masks whenever they went out in public, saying Michael explained it to them as: "If you do this now, you can go to Chuck E. Cheese and be normal because no one will know who you are," and said it wasn't 'scary' at all.
She also described Michael as a 'really funny guy that was [her] best friend', and referred to herself as his 'little princess'.
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