What Michael Jackson\u2019s Neverland looks like now<\/a><\/p>\nAs for wearing face masks during public outings to stay incognito, Paris insisted this \u201cmade sense\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201c[We were told], \u2018If you do this now, you can go to Chuck E. Cheese and be normal because no one will know who you are,\u2019\u201d she explained, denying the practice was \u201cscary\u201d at all.<\/p>\n
When asked to describe her dad, who died in 2009 at age 50, Paris dubbed him a \u201creally funny guy that was [her] best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later in the interview, she referred to herself as the King of Pop\u2019s \u201clittle princess.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for navigating her grief after his passing, Paris called the loss \u201crough\u201d \u2014 and said that transition stage in her life was a \u201ccrash course in gaining social skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also spoke to host Alex Cooper about her recovery from drug addiction, noting that her current \u201cconsuming relationship [is] with tobacco\u201d since she is someone who has \u201cconstantly, historically reached outside of [her]self to find things to change or manage how [she\u2019s] feeling or thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actress, notably, has been sober since \u201cthe first week of 2020\u201d after hitting her \u201cbreaking point, rock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n
She started to \u201creach for things outside of [her]self\u201d around 7 or 8 years old, and her substance abuse struggles began in eighth or ninth grade to combat feeling \u201crestless, irritable, discontented and not very comfortable in [her] own skin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paris has been open about her sobriety in recent years, including showing off her perforated septum caused by years of drug abuse in 2025.<\/p>\n
That same year, she ended her engagement to fiance Justin Long \u2014 and told Cooper she did an \u201cuncomfortable \u2026 full-blown detox\u201d and \u201creset\u201d by avoiding flirting, \u201cprolonged eye contact [and] extended hugs\u201d post-split.<\/p>\n
Paris now has her \u201cpriorities straight\u201d and stressed that the last year has been the \u201cbest\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n
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