Jermaine Jackson has opened up about his fears for his niece Paris after she secured her first acting role in US TV show “Star.”
Speaking exclusively to The Sun Online, Jermaine revealed he was supporting his late brother Michael’s daughter and promised the family would always take care of her.
Jermaine said: “We’re very proud of Paris. I just think we have to make sure she is OK because this business not kind to anybody. It can break you. You have to know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to make your move and when to hold back. She’s had an incredible logic path – she’s had the entire Jackson family legacy as the logic. Her tough challenges are going to come down the road because there is always going to be a fork in the road and you have to know whether to turn left or right. You have to pull yourself together.”
Paris, 18, has been open about her troubled past and in 2013 tried to take her own life.
Years later, in a heartbreaking interview with Rolling Stone, Paris admitted she had tried to take her own life when she was just 15-years-old.
She said “[I attempted suicide] multiple times. It was just once that it became public. It was just self-hatred, low self-esteem, thinking that I couldn’t do anything right, not thinking I was worthy of living anymore. I was doing a lot of things that 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds shouldn’t do. I tried to grow up too fast, and I wasn’t really that kind of a person.”
She’s turned her life around and is now starting out in a successful career as an actress, and Jermaine vowed he’d be there every step of the way.
He explained: “We’re there for Paris and all the kids…whoever wants to do something we’re there. We have to hope they keep it in an integral role because as a family we never sold out, we always kept it on the level that people would expect us to. We’ve always kept it great and that is the challenge. If they want to walk in our success, that’s what they have to do.”