In an age where biographical documentaries seem to be all the rage, Unfiltered is the film that portrays part of the life of Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, Which just premiered on Facebook Watch. The second daughter of the singer, who died in 2009, He is 22 years old and has an incipient career also in the world of music.
In the documentary, Paris recounts the difficulties she had to build her own path as the daughter of the king of pop, with a life invaded by scandals and fame. Her father, Michael Jackson, and her mother, Debbie Rowe, tried to raise her away from public opinion, something that was almost impossible with the consequences that Paris recounts in the film.
“When you see a child grow up in the public eye, you don’t take it seriously and people don’t realize, by criticizing me, that I am a human being,” he says, trying to explain the painful moments that he must have gone through for fame and exposure of his father.
Paris Jackson says she is afraid of living as a shadow. (Photo: Roy Rochlin / Getty Images / AFP)
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At the beginning of the documentary, Paris appears crying during her father’s funeral when she was just 11 years old. “I wanted to share and say that since I was born, dad has been the best father anyone can imagine. I love him very much, “he says.
The film also deals with reflecting the drama that Paris meant to go through adolescence without her father, adding another painful period in which addictions and depression were not lacking.
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“These 11 years have been hell, because people found it fun to ruin my life. I do not want to continue being a slave to my pain, “she said, exposing her truth.” You see a girl grow up before public opinion and they forget that I am human, “she added, also highlighting how important the support she received from some people was. , during all these years.
The documentary also reflects the arduous task that it meant for Paris, trying to make her way on her own in the world of music, with the backpack of being the daughter of Michael Jackson. The singer says that only when she met Gabriel Glenn, her boyfriend for three years, could she feel professionally music.
A preteen Paris Jackson, along with Janet, LaToya, Jackson and her brother Prince Michael, during the King of Pop’s funeral (Photo: AP / Gabriel Bouys)
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“I’m afraid of living being a shadow”he commented. “They say that time heals, but it doesn’t. You just get used to it. I lost the only thing that has been important to me, so nothing can be as bad as that.”
The launch of Unfiltered comes shortly after the release of his first album with Glenn with the band The Soundflowers, of folk-indie. But at the same time, coincides with the end of the courtship of the couple, and with revelations from Paris about their love affairs and pleasure.
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“I don’t feel like there is a label that fits my sexuality”, explains the daughter of the King of Pop, who admits that she does not consider herself bisexual because the gender of the other person does not matter when it comes to falling in love. “For me it has nothing to do with what’s in your pants. I have dated a man who had a vagina“, he assures, and admits that he has always thought that” I would end up marrying a woman “, because he had relationships with girls than with boys.
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