ivy;3837316 said:
Famed Michael Jackson Attorney Tom Mesereau: ‘I’m Heartbroken Over Paris Jackson’s Suicide Attempt’
Michael Jackson‘s attorney, Tom Mesereau, who successfully represented the pop star in the child molestation trial in 2005, tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that he is heartbroken over Paris Jackson‘s suicide attempt.
“I’m heartbroken over Paris Jackson’s suicide attempt. I’m shocked, and frankly, at a loss for words,”Mesereau told Radar. “Paris is just a wonderful young lady, beautiful, and extremely bright.
“She has so much to live for, and to contribute to the world. I hope that she makes a recovery, physically and emotionally.”
Paris Jackson attempted suicide and was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by ambulance early Wednesday.
As Radar was first to report, Michael Jackson’s only daughter, 15, was despondent over several things.
“She’s very upset that she will be called as a witness in her father’s wrongful death trial, in which she is a plaintiff,” one source told Radar.
Also, the four-year anniversary of her father’s death is approaching and Paris had complained about being bullied at school. She also has grown apart from her brother Prince.
According to Meserea:, “Michael would have been devastated to learn that Paris had attempted suicide. His children were his entire life, and everything he did was for them. He protected his three children, and kept them away from opportunists.”
In addition to her depression over being a witness in the wrongful death trial, Paris also feels guilty about spending time lately with Debbie Rowe, her biological mother. Paris, according to one source, feels as if she is betraying some family members, including her grandmother Katherine, by getting to know her mom.
Rowe confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that Paris tried to commit suicide and is in a Los Angeles hospital. Rowe said of Paris she has “a lot going on [lately.]“
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department told RadarOnline.com: “The call came in at 1:27 am it was an overdose call. We responded and a person apparently took some kind of medication. We transported them to a local hospital.”
Thanks you for this, Ivy. I appreciate reading Tom Mesereau's words, since he is not one of those dreaded nameless sources, and I actually respect most of what he says. Also, he knew Michael through probably the darkest days of his life, and has remained consistently supportive of Michael and his legacy.
Elsewhere we read of this source or that source (always someone close to the family, supposedly) talking to TMZ, ET, RadarOnLine, CNN or someone else, telling them different things. They are all feeding off each other. It's another feeding frenzy, like when Michael died. Like when Princess Diana was chased to her death by paparazzi. For heaven's sake, WHEN WILL THESE PEOPLE LEARN??? And if there really are 'sources' close to the family saying things, someone should give them the boot, well and truly!
I just want to correct something that a couple of people have written earlier in this thread too (someone may have already done it, and I've not gotten that far yet, if so, sorry for repeating it)... Taj Jackson is not the co-guardian. It's his brother TJ.
Some people outside the MJFam might wonder what a bright, talented and financially well provided for youngster like Paris has to be depressed about... amongst the really heavy stuff of LOSING HER DAD, being a teen, dealing with school, getting to know her mother for the first time in her life, the civil case and all the stuff being said about her Dad, and actually having to be deposed and possibly testifying, and WR's lies on top of it, AND having a very high profile presence on Twitter... she really is a target for some pretty nasty stuff. I twice tried to report people to Twitter who I saw had sent her some really hateful messages. Of course she may not have read them. But if she were my daughter I would not want her taking that risk. The couple I've seen must be a mere drop in a vast ocean of blind hate that gets sent her way simply because she is MJ's daughter, or treated as a 'celebrity' by the tabloids. Almost immediately after the RW story broke, I noticed another teen (using a name that was not her own - of course!) tweeted to Paris: "Your dad was a p........ You should kill yourself." When I tried to report the offender I discovered I couldn't complete Twitter's on-line form because the tweet wasn't about me personally. Of course I blocked this person, but really I wanted to report her and have her account nullified. I don't believe this girl appreciated or cared how damaging her comments were. She may not have even meant them. But Paris was the target of her abuse regardless. And, as I said above, this one incident would be but a drop in the vast ocean.
To anyone who has never suffered from clinical depression - whether reactive or endogenous - it is an illness like most others, except the pain is internal. But there is a chemical change in the brain that often needs to be corrected with appropriate medication. Even getting that right is not always easy, since sometimes the side effects are as bad as the symptoms. I speak of this with some experience, having worked as a receptionist/secretary in an outpatient psych facility for seven years, and also having suffered clinical depression following the death of my own Dad twenty years ago.
But, the sun really does shine again, so long as we give it a chance...
I don't assume to know what is really troubling Paris beyond what the sources - named and unnamed - are telling us, or what should be done to ensure she is given the very best opportunity to fully recover, physically and emotionally. Having been there (only I was 40 yrs old at the time) I know one sad reality which one just has to learn to live with... we never, ever get over the loss of a loving Dad.
