Before he passed, Michael Jackson gave his daughter Paris some good advice, and she revealed what it was while making her first solo TV appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
People magazine reports that while taping the appearance Paris said that her dad inspired her to become an actress, and even helped her hone her craft by doing improv with her. When asked to name the most memorable thing the King of Pop ever told her, 13-year-old Paris told Ellen, “He said, ‘If I die tomorrow, always remember what I told you.’ I took his advice, and I remembered everything he told me.”
Paris, who was just cast in the fantasy movie Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys, tells Ellen that it was seeing one of her dad’s films that sparked her interest in acting. “My dad was in the movie Moonwalker, and I knew he could sing really well but I didn’t know he could act. I saw that and I said, ‘Wow, I want to be just like him,'” she said. During their improv work, Paris said, “He would give us little scenarios. He would go, ‘Okay, in this scene you’re going to cry,’ and I’d cry on the spot.”
The teen also says that she, along with her siblings Prince and Blanket, live like normal kids these days, but she recalls those times when, as very young children, their dad made them wear masks in public. She tells Ellen, “I’m like, ‘This is stupid, why am I wearing a mask?’ But I kind of realized the older I got, like, he only tried to protect us. And he’d explain that to us, too.” Now, says Paris, she’s “treated the same” as all the other kids at school. “When I came [there], they didn’t know who I was,” she explains. “I was like, ‘Yes, I have a chance to be normal!'”
