Katherine Jackson opens up on her decision to remove Michael's children's masks

'They were sheltered a lot': Katherine Jackson opens up on her decision to remove Michael's children's masks






Michael Jackson's mother Katherine has open up on her decision to remove her grandchildren's masks, after being brought up to wear them by their father.
The matriarch, 83, gave the trio Prince, Paris and Blanket the freedom to walk in public without their faces covered after she was given custody of them following Michael's death in June 2009.
Speaking to Hello! Magazine Mrs Jackson said: 'They were sheltered a lot when Michael raised them.

'I had thought about it and I said "I am not going to raise them like that (wearing masks)." But Michael had a good reason. He was trying to protect them.'
Meanwhile, she also opened up on her granddaughter's health, admitting she is doing ‘doing much better’ after her suicide bid in June.

The 15-year-old schoolgirl was rushed to hospital from the family home in Los Angeles after cutting her wrists and swallowing a large number of over-the-counter painkillers and is now being treated in a secluded residential facility which specialises in helping troubled youngsters.

She explained: ’She is in a good place, getting the help she needs.’
The Jackson family matriarch shares legal guardianship of Paris and her brothers, Prince, 16, and Blanket, 11, with her grandson TJ.

She continued about her granddaughter: ‘She is doing much better.

‘The treatment is going good, really good. She's my baby. It's hard for me, really hard. All I wanted these kids to be is happy. The night Michael died Paris was crying and said "I want to go and see Daddy, I don't want to be without him."
Mrs Jackson said ‘not a day goes by’ she does not think of the singer, whom she called ‘a very good father’ and ‘a good son’.
She said the children were ‘incredibly polite’ and that was down to the pop superstar.

She said: ‘He instilled good manners but it's a different generation, of course, and I don't understand the whole social media thing. They are always on their phones.’
Paris was rushed to hospital in June of his year.
At the time a lawyer for Katherine alluded to how Paris is still coming to terms with the loss of her father Michael Jackson, four years after his death.

'Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are.' Perry Sanders said in a statement to MailOnline.
'It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. Paris is physically fine and is