Jackson Son Thought Father’s Death a Joke
June 28, 2009 by Amber
Filed under Celebrity, Michael Jackson
The eldest son of Michael Jackson, Prince Michael Jr., thought his pop star father was simply joking around when he collapsed on the living room floor and went into cardiac arrest, a source close to the family has revealed.
PMJ – Prince Michael Jr., 12 – reportedly watched Dr. Murray’s frantic attempts to revive his father while “in a trance,” believing up until the last minute that it was all just a big joke orchastrated by his father, who loved to clown around with his children.
Jackson family biographer Stacey Brown explained:
“The horror of it all is that Prince thought his dad was just being his dad and clowning, but it was real, and he watched as they worked on him.
“Prince was stunned — in a trance — just watching.
“There was no movement, just looking around and not really processing what was really happening.”
At the time of his death, Jackson was staying in a $120,000-a-month L.A. rental home with his three children, his personal cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray, a security guard and his manager, Frank DiLeo. Prince Michael Jr. was the only child present for Jackson’s death; the other two children, Paris and ‘Blanket,’ were in another area of the house at the time of their father’s collapse.
It was left up to DiLeo to tell the other children that their father had died, a task the manager labeled as the “single most painful moment of [his] life.”
DiLeo said: “Whatever anyone thought of Michael, he was loved by those children, truly loved. They were — and are — in pieces.”
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