

Part of it was that and then it was also a distraction from emotional pain and transferring to physical pain and the need for control. There's a lot of things that cause a dopamine release and self-harm is one of them.


And dopamine is called dope for a reason. I knew how deep I was going," she said (via Entertainment Tonight). "I was always the one that was in control of the razor. Instead, she was desperately seeking control in a world of chaos. Paris claimed that she didn't think her self-harming behavior, which included cutting and burning, would ever claim her life. "And then a cousin called me fat and I was like, 'OK, I can't do that anymore.' And that's how I fell into self-harm." In an episode of her Facebook Watch series, Unfiltered: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn (via Entertainment Tonight), the King of Pop's only daughter revealed that she'd been living a "very healthy" lifestyle with her father, but when she moved in with her grandmother "there were no rules." She had "soda and cake all the time," which led to significant weight gain.

Though mental illness, substance abuse, and family tragedy, Paris Jackson has managed to persevere. The first time she publicly spoke was at her father's memorial, and from that point on, Paris has been trying her best to reckon with her family's legacy while carving her own path in the music industry. As she put it, her father was her world, but then he tragically passed, and she was thrust into the spotlight, unmasked and alone. According to Rolling Stone, she spent the first seven years of her life in Neverland, enjoying the 2,700-acre ranch's zoo and amusement park away from the prying eyes of the public. Most of us remember Paris as the small girl whose face was always shielded from the paparazzi beneath a mask. In the wake of his 2009 death, Michael's children have been forced to endure his sprawling legacy for better or for worse. Still, fame has always come with pitfalls, and Michael's scandals have outlived him. His seminal album Thriller was the first in history to spawn seven Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and later on, he became the first artist to sell 1 million digital tracks in a week. Michael Jackson has earned his title as the King of Pop. Paris Jackson was born into an unimaginable world, if only because of her father's fame.
