Paris Jackson hits back at fans slamming her for no birthday post for dad Michael Jackson
Paris Jackson shuts down trolls she's faced from fans for not posting a happy birthday tribute for her father Michael Jackson. Photo: Getty Images
Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson recently took to social media to address the criticism and death threats she's received from fans because she did not share a happy birthday post online for her late father on August 29. It would have been the King of Pop's 65th birthday.
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The 25-year-old daughter of the legendary Michael Jackson did share a post on Instagram on Tuesday, a day after her late father's birthday.
Paris Jackson Pays Tribute to Late Dad Michael Jackson on His 65th Birthday!!!!
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Paris Jackson is a daddy's girl.
The daughter of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, paid a special tribute to her dad on what would have been his 65th birthday. pic.twitter.com/uP8gG5jqpo
- In the video, she spoke about how fans went into a frenzy and trolled her by saying she should kill herself because she did not pay a birthday tribute to her father online.
- She also said that she considered all these reactions as plain absurd.
The American singer began the Instagram video by saying:
- "Today’s my dad’s birthday and back when he was alive, he used to hate anybody acknowledging his birthday, wishing him a happy birthday, celebrating it, nothing like that. He actually didn’t want us to even know when his birthday was because he didn’t want us to throw a party or anything like that," Paris said.
- She continued, "That being said, social media is apparently how people express their love and affection these days, and if you don’t wish someone a happy birthday via social media, it apparently means you don’t love them, you don’t care about them."
Paris Jackson's birthday tribute to her late father
Within this Instagram video, she shared another video that showed that she did indeed pay a birthday tribute to her father.
- Paris is basically on stage in this video, and shares with the audience that Michael Jackson would have turned 65 years old this year.
- She said that her father "put 50 years of blood, sweat and tears and love and passion into doing what he did so that I could stand up here on stage in front of you and scream into a microphone. So I owe everything to him."
Trolled over armpit hair
The trolling didn't end here.
Paris Jackson was then bullied online for the video she shared on Tuesday, in which people could see her underarm hair. In the video, she was pulling up her hair to tie it and that's when people could see her underarm hair as she was in a sleeveless dress.
A few of them commented on the video saying, "Shaving armpits is a kinda cleanliness", "You made this whole video just to show you don’t shave your armpits."
To this, the Jackson responded by saying on X (Twitter), "I wasn’t tying my hair up to show off my armpit hair. I've not shaved it for years and forget it's there all the time. Get over yourselves. ... I was just pulling my hair up to show my glass-cutting jawline."
August 29 marked Michael Jackson's 65th birthday. The King of Pop was born in 1958, and died on June 25, 2009.