Michael Jackson’s son recalled his childhood in a rare interview – and how he viewed his father’s global fame.
Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr. – who alternates the names Mike and Prince – is the eldest of the King of Pop’s three children at 24.
He has a younger sister, Paris, 22, and a brother, Prince Michael Jackson II, 19 – who goes through Bigi and was called Blanket by his father.
Michael died at the age of 50 in 2009, when Prince was just 12.
Now Prince has opened up about how he views his father’s fame, revealing to FOX Soul that he has seen superfans pass out because of him at a concert.
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He said there was one “one a-ha moment” where he knew his dad was a megastar, but there were “little seeds that grew and grew old.”
“I saw people would follow us everywhere,” he said, “people would just reach out and touch my dad.
“But that was really when I was about 10 or 11, when I was watching a video of my dad playing… he was playing outside, and you see this sea of people.
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“There were people passing out in the audience, and I asked my father, ‘Why do people pass out? I see you every day and I don’t pass out.
“It had this resonance that people really loved my dad. “
And asked what lessons his father taught him that are still dear to him, Prince said that was his attitude towards learning and knowing.
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“You know, there are so many nuggets out there that I care so much about that I feel like they are applicable at all times,” he explained.
“But the one that is my guiding principle is that you never stop learning. I graduated, and that doesn’t mean I stopped learning.
“And my dad would also say something like, ‘The minute you stop learning is the minute you’re going to start dying.’ “
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Prince carried those lessons with him, graduating in 2019 with Distinction from Loyola Marymount University with a Business Degree.
Prince celebrated his graduation with his younger brother Bigi, who recently bought his own home.
Paris, meanwhile, has had an extremely successful modeling career.
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