Michael Jackson's daughter Paris 'tried to split from family before suicide attempt'

 
Michael Jackson's daughter Paris attends a ceremony where the singer's shoes and gloves are used to make hand and foot imprints in cement in the courtyard of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on in this January 26, 2012, file photo. Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on June 5, 2013 after an apparent suicide attempt, her mother, Debbie Rowe, told entertainment TV program "Entertainment Tonight." REUTERS/Phil McCarten/Files
16 June 2013

Paris Jackson said she wanted to be free of her family guardians and take control of her own life before trying to kill herself, it was claimed.

The King of Pop’s 15-year-old daughter was in hospital today, reportedly on a psychiatric ward for 72 hours, after apparently cutting her wrist and taking an overdose of painkillers.

A source close to the Jackson family said Paris has suffered depression “for some time” and “feels unloved” in the wake of her father’s death four years ago this month. Living among security guards, hangers-on and various family members, she “feels alone and misses her father every day”.

According to US columnist Roger Friedman, who has strong sources in the Jackson family, Paris at one point asked for “emancipation” — a court action that would give her control over her own life before legally becoming an adult at 18.

Friedman also claimed on his website that Paris’s mother, Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe, 54, could seek legal custody and take her out of the Jackson family compound in California.

He quoted a family insider as saying: “She’s a handful for the Jacksons. They don’t know what to do. Paris suffers from depression. She’s lonely, she thinks no one loves her or is listening to her. She doesn’t want to be controlled or told what to do.”

He said the teenager, the middle of Jackson’s three children, is expected to make a full recovery. She was taken to hospital early yesterday, the alarm apparently raised after she called a suicide hotline.

Her father died on June 25 four years ago after an overdose of sedative. Paris’s suicide bid reportedly came after she was told she couldn’t go to a concert by goth rocker Marilyn Manson tonight as it was a school night. She stormed to her bedroom.

Shortly before she was taken to hospital she tweeted a line from Yesterday, the Beatles classic: “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as though they’re here to stay.” She also wrote: “I wonder why tears are salty?”

In a rare interview with Oprah Winfrey last year, Paris revealed she had been bullied. “A lot of people don’t like me,” she said. She also said her father ensured she and her brothers Prince Michael, 16 and Blanket, 10, wore masks in public to try to give them a “normal” childhood.

The children’s paternal grandmother Katherine, 83, shares guardianship of them with TJ Jackson, the son of Michael’s brother, Tito. Paris and Prince Michael are due to give evidence this month in the £26.5 billion wrongful death case brought by the family against concert promoters AEG Live.

Paris has spent time this year with her mother at her LA horse ranch. Ms Rowe turned over custody of Prince Michael and Paris, her children by Jackson, when they divorced in 1999 but mother and daughter have reconciled.

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