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We need to talk about the youngest Jackson offspring

We need to talk about the youngest Jackson offspring | Amayzine

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you probably haven't missed the drama surrounding Michael Jackson. Since the four-hour documentary Leaving Neverland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, there's been Jackson news every day in the headlines. And Friday was finally the Netherlands' turn. I think many Friday afternoon drinks have been ruined because of this, as this is definitely a documentary you want and need to see. Now I must say that I have always been a big fan of Michael Jackson. In fact, I had tickets for his very last concert in the series he was supposed to do in London (funny enough, my flight ticket, just like many others, couldn't be canceled, resulting in a bizarrely crowded London full of Michael Jackson fans from all over the world). My brother saw him live in the ArenA in 1997 – something I still haven't fully forgiven him for (as Danny de Munk beautifully sang: 'I wasn't allowed to go, I was too small'). Anyway, you get it: I was a fan.

A lot has already been written about the documentary, by both supporters and opponents of the King of Pop. But what I want to talk about are the Jackson children. And specifically the youngest: Blanket Jackson. The world first saw him when he was nine months old, dangling out of a hotel window in Berlin, where ‘Wacko Jacko’ – rightly so – also came under fire. That nickname certainly did justice to that moment.

That nine-month-old baby is now already 17 years old and has changed his name from Blanket to Bigi. He made this name change due to ongoing bullying about the name ‘Blanket’. And his family is now very worried about him. After the premiere of Leaving Neverland, he reportedly completely stopped talking. As in: he refuses to say another word and is also completely withdrawn. And if you've followed the Jackson family a bit, you know that his public appearances were already quite scarce.

According to cousin Taj (you know, one of the 3 T's), the documentary has ‘completely destroyed’ Bigi. He continues: 'He was always one of the happiest kids at school. Now he doesn't say a word anymore.' You must have a heart of stone if this doesn't break a little when reading it. That boy never knew his mother, placed.

his father on a pedestal (from which he also had to say goodbye too soon), and now he is being thrown off that quite mercilessly. Family friend Mark Lester also has something to say about it, particularly about how the family is trying to protect Bigi. 'They are trying to shield him as much as possible from the outside world, but maybe that's not a good move. Isolating him can't be a good idea.' Just a salient detail: there is also the.

persistent rumor that this Mark Lester is the biological father of Paris, Bigi's older sister. By the way, she hasn't really commented on Leaving Neverland yet. She tweeted the following about it: 'Smoke some weed n think about the bigger picture. Chillax my dudes.' Well, they don't owe anyone a real public response, but I can't fully agree with this tweet. And she also came back to that. i didn’t mean to offend by expressing that titties should be calm, i know injustices are frustrating and it’s easy to get worked up. but reacting with a calm mind usually is more logical than acting out of rage and also…. it feels better to mellow out.

Written by: Wieke Veenboer