Experts Blast Jacksons Over Paris Speech (Video)
IMO, Paris Jackson’s speech was easily the most compelling part of the Michael Jackson memorial, but was letting 11 year-old Paris address the worldwide audience a mistake? Some child psychologists say the attention may be too much for MJ’s preteen princess.
Certainly, MJ tried his very hardest to keep his children out of the probing eye of the media. You remember the creepy masks? Yesterday, his family just made her a focal point of one of the most-watched broadcasts in TV history.
Explains child psychologist Linda Blair:
“To be thrust into the limelight as Paris was is potentially very traumatic. This is a girl who has been shielded from the media her whole life. When a child is in shock, as Paris still will be from her father’s death, the most important thing is to keep everything as normal as possible. But the opposite has happened here.”
“The world has rarely seen Paris’ face and has never heard her talk. But here she was making a speech to billions of people across the world. She is completely unused to speaking on stage. But here she was speaking on the biggest stage possible.”
“In times like this logic goes out the window, so you can’t blame the family for letting her do it. But they certainly made a bad judgment.”
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Was there really any harm done by letting Paris speak? I don’t really think so.
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[...] those close to the family say that MJ’s kids are shockingly normal. During the recent controversy over Paris Jackson’s memorial speech, it was assumed that she, along with her brothers Prince Michael and Blanket were all seriously [...]
Jackson’s Kids Are “Exceptionally Bright” And Well-Adjusted | Famecrawler commented on Jul 10 09 at 3:03 pmThose that convinced Granny to allow Paris to go through this hell, were not anyone who had the child’s welfare at heart. Instead, they most likely were those that stood to gain monetarily from her speech. By showing her to the world, they hoped to protray MJ as a loving Father, and not the pedifile much of the world still believes him to be. I’m not a MJ fan, however, my heart goes out to the child, who has obviously been abused and misused for the benefit of others. Didn’t they have enough celebrities, ministers, and other famous people to praise him, without putting this child through such turmoil? All this action did was to protray the post-MJ family as disfunctional as it was when he was alive. We (the world) are guilty of fanning these flames, and the circus will continue only so long as we buy tickets. Granny needs to close this circus and get rid of the caretakers. JJ
john jackson
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Jul 08 09
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2:41 pm
I think the thought behind it on the grandmothers end was that if they didn’t allow her to say something she wanted to say, they may regret it - there will never be another moment like that. I know when my dad died, figuring out how to handle it with my 6 yr old (who was EXTREMELY attached to my dad) was difficult to say the least. We didn’t want to traumatize him any further but we didn’t want to do something that would upset him later - if he wanted to go to the funeral, we let him. If he had wanted to say something, we would have let him. There are many different ways to grieve and this little girl seems pretty mature considering all she has been through. If she wanted to say something, I’m glad they let her.
Tiffany
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Jul 08 09
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2:49 pm
I am inclined towards the view that this little girl (and her siblings) sadly have far greater worries ahead of them than publicly declaring their love for the man they knew as their father. They (the children) have nothing to regret in their brave behaviour regardless of who was orchestrating it, they may even be grateful for the opportunity to express their love and loss, publicly because the world has long had a voice with which to sneer, scorn, ridicule as well as adulate and praise. Their world is not “normal”, it never has been and never will be. Losing your father at a young age is sad, what is even sadder is that they don’t seem to have a mother. Grandma and Diana Ross may be great vibrant women but they are too old, the kids ought to have the opportunity to build a relationship to the only woman who has any claim to the title of mother, Debbie Rowe regardless of what she agreed to in the past.
nutterbutter
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Jul 08 09
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3:15 pm
I do not think it will do any harm. I think if she was shy she would have said no. She spoke clearly and was overwhelmed by the memory of her father. Most singers could barely sign at the memorial so it was normal to me that she too couldn’t keep her emotions at bay. I think in the future, when she looks back, she will feel good because she was able to tell the world how she felt about her father.
Rosana
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Jul 08 09
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3:53 pm
avi gold
commented on My father died when I was seven, and I would give anything to go back and be able to tell everyone at his memorial how much I loved him. She’ll be glad she got the opportunity.
Emily
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Jul 09 09
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7:23 pm
I also think, and I am more than sure, that they did well letting Paris say goodbye to her Father, to show people that he was loved and he loved.
Dorota
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Jul 15 09
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3:38 pm
Paris is a brave girl. She had every right to express her feelings towards her father. She may have brought some attention that the family had try to avoid. But really when you think about it, I think it was worth it. I have respect for all the family members that have been there when he needed them, for now we should give them privacy because if I were in there position I now I would like that.
Yaqui
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Jul 17 09
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5:18 pm
if you actually pay attention to the video, from when marlon was speaking, paris ASKED janet to go out and speak. marlon said “i think janet wants to say something” and it looks like janet says something like “no its paris” and paris waits patiently so she can go and they adjust the mic. its so sick and insensitive that people think that was fake. the girl had just lost her father. have some respect and have a heart. if you look at the look on paris’s face, she was so distraught and it really came from the heart. so SORRY media, mike was an incredible father. just accept it and get over yourselves. paris was very brave. so the media needs to leave the kids the hell alone. michael’s friends were crying like brooke shields and usher, why would his own daughter be lying?? and the media is sooo amazingly hypocritical because theyve been dying to see those kids. theyve been stalking after them waiting for a time to catch them without masks. and now they see them and its like “why would you put her out there?” let me ask you something, media, “why do you stalk people?”
Ashley
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Aug 21 09
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12:24 pm
