Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of the late Michael Jackson, is headed to a long-term treatment facility in the wake of her suicide attempt earlier this month.
A source close to the Jackson family told People that the teenager will stay at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for “at least another week” where she is currently receiving treatment in the psychiatric facility. The source said Jackson would then move to a facility for “additional care.”
Jackson’s mental health ordeal has reportedly been difficult on her grandmother and co-guardian Katherine Jackson. A source close to the matriarch said that it is the grandmother’s lack of experience with “dealing with someone in this situation” has lead her reach out to the teen’s biological mother Debbie Rowe for help in deciding what is the best course of action.
The source added that Jackson feared the young girl had “fallen in with the wrong crowd,” contributing to the devastating loss of her father and the anxiety she felt having to testify in a wrongful death trial against entertainment company AEG Live.
ABC reports that proceedings in the courtroom have painted the late singer as a loving father who was concerned with protecting his children.
Chef Kai Chase, who worked for the Jackson family, testified that, though elaborate, the Paris Jackson’s 11th birthday party, for which the singer hired Cirque de Soleli acrobats for a private performance, was the "the most beautiful expression of love” he had ever seen between a father and his children.
"They would take off like lightning," Chase recalls of the three children’s behavior at their father’s homecoming, "... and grab him around the ankles and around the waist."
The chef also spoke of a message 11-year-old Paris left on the chalkboard in the kitchen of the Los Angeles mansion, “I love daddy,” it read, “Smile, it’s free.”
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