Paris Jackson Sits Down With Oprah Winfrey To Talk About Her Life After Michael Jackson's Death

7:29 PM EDT 6/11/2012 by Katrina Grant, Celebeat Reporter

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Paris Jackson sat down and spoke with Oprah Winfrey about life with her famous father, Michael Jackson, and how it has been since he passed away.

Paris Jackson had arguably the most famous father in the world, but she told Winfrey that despite all the fame, her childhood with Michael was normal.

"Now I see other kids and their parents and I compare them to my dad," Paris said in the interview. "Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot. Mostly me and Blanket, because me and Blanket would always fight."

Paris said that Michael also wanted to ensure that the children got to be able to have a childhood.

"He had his doubts, because he told us that when he was younger he didn't really have a childhood," Paris said. "He'd always be stuck in the studio singing while other kids were out playing. And he wanted us to have that. Chuck E. Cheese and Toys 'R' Us were our favorite places to go."

Winfrey asked Paris about the infamous masks that the children wore when they were little whenever they would go out with Michael. She explained that she didn't understand it at first, but looking back at it knows now that Michael was just trying to protect them.

"I was really confused, like I didn't get why I was wearing a mask," she said. "But I understand it now, why our dad would want our face to be covered, so we went out without him, we wouldn't be recognized and we could have a normal childhood."

Paris said that now, she is like any other teenager and deals with the same issues as anyone else does, including bullying.

''People try, but it doesn't always work," she said. "At school, and some people try to cyberbully me. They try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work. If I feel someone is being fake to me, I will just push away.''

Michael passed away from an overdose of the surgical anaesthetic Propofol at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009. Dr. Conrad Murray, who administered the Propofol to Michael, is serving four years in prison for his death. Paris told Winfrey that dealing with his passing "never gets easier."

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