Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson is demystifying one of her father’s most famous assets: Neverland Ranch.
Named after the paradise in “Peter Pan” where children never grow up, the property had a private amusement park, zoo, movie theater, and train station.
But Paris reveals that it wasn’t as exciting or memorable to her as it might have been to an outsider.
During her August 12 episode of “Call Her Daddy,” Paris first clarified, “I didn’t grow up there. It was only the first few years of my life that I was there.”
She also revealed that she and her brothers, Prince Jackson and Bigi Jackson (previously known as Blanket), didn’t play all day on the ranch’s many amenities.
“I’d wake up and I’d go to school,” Paris, who was homeschooled at Neverland, said. “I’d wake up and we go to the room that was our classroom and we would go to school.”
She continued, “It was made very, very clear that all of the attractions there were not for us, that did not belong to us. That was for underprivileged children and children that were terminally ill that couldn’t go to Disneyland.”
But Paris and her siblings weren’t completely deprived of a little fun.
“The cool, like very congruent line throughout my childhood that kind of started there,” Paris said, “and then 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.”
She added, “Same thing with like television. Like we weren’t allowed to watch television or movies and stuff either unless we were studying it for film with the sound off. Or, it was on the weekends if we had done everything we were supposed to.”
Paris is actually grateful for the boundaries placed on her as a child when it came to such an extravagant lifestyle.
“It would’ve been cool, but no,” Paris said regarding the idea of getting to play all day, before quipping, “I probably would have grown up to be an a–hole.”
The 28-year-old also addressed the habit the family had of wearing masks in public, which stirred controversy and questions.
But to Paris, “It just it made sense because it was like, ‘Oh yeah, if you do this now, then you can go to Chuck-E-Cheese and be normal this weekend because no one will know who you are.’ Like that made sense to me.”
Jackson died in 2009 at the age of 50 when Paris was 11 and her brothers, Prince and Bigi, were 12 and 7, respectively.
Though she was still quite young when she lost her dad, Paris remembers him as a “really funny guy,” adding, “That was my best friend.”
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