Paris Jackson understands precisely why her dad needed to bond her to his expensive buddy, the Oscar-winning display screen legend Elizabeth Taylor.
Paris, 26, seems within the new three-part BBC documentary sequence Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar. Within the the primary episode, she explains why she believes her dad selected Taylor to be her godmother.
“I feel as a result of I used to be rising up within the highlight. There’s positively part of him that knew that we might have a really comparable expertise,” she says.
“I used to be homeschooled and due to that, I do not know what it was prefer to be round different youngsters my age. Hanging out with adults, on a regular basis. And I feel it was simply the identical for her.”
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Earlier within the episode, Paris feedback on the unusual expertise of rising up the daughter of one of the vital well-known males on the earth. Michael died at age 50 in 2009; his center little one and solely daughter was 11 on the time. (Her brothers are Prince Michael Jackson, 27, and Bigi Jackson, 22.)
“I can’t converse for everyone who grows up within the highlight,” she says, “however there’s not a single regular factor about that.”
Paris was only one and a half weeks shy of her thirteenth birthday when Taylor died in 2011 at age 79, however she devoted herself to studying in regards to the star’s true ardour — her mission to combat the ignorance and concern surrounding HIV and AIDS — and her lasting legacy because the founding father of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
Talking with PEOPLE about her position as an ambassador for ETAF in 2021, Paris shared a few of her reminiscences of her godmother.
“Clearly, I used to be somewhat lady on the time, so I can not share any conversations or particular recollections I had with my godmother. However in my thoughts’s eye, I can recall my dad talking with Elizabeth on a couple of events at our residence in Encino,” she shared.
Paris remembered Taylor standing out as one of many ladies who would continuously go to, recalling, “She was very fairly and wore glowing necklaces and rings.”
“Elizabeth was an exception. I didn’t know who she was or what she did, and it could be years later that I came upon,” she continued. “On the time, I simply bear in mind how I at all times needed to deliver her little presents after we would go to her, like plush toys or bracelets I had discovered. More often than not, I simply sat on the ground of her bed room together with her cat, Fang, whereas she and my father caught up.”
Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Celebrity additionally options interviews with Joan Collins, Sharon Stone and Kim Kardashian, who government produced the documentary sequence. Episodes 2 and three will air on the BBC on Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, respectively.