New York Post, Sunday, November 15, 2020
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By Stacy BrownP
ARIS Jackson is following in her
father’s moonwalk.
On Friday, the 22-year-old
daughter of Michael Jackson re-
leased her debut solo album,
“Wilted,” channeling the heartache of
her breakup with ex-boyfriend Gabriel
Glenn this past summer. Her latest
foray into music is filled with tracks
that reflect a hard life spent in the pub-
lic eye.
The emotional first single, “Let
Down,” is accompanied by a video that
opens with Paris shedding a tear of
blood while singing somber lyrics de-
claring, “You were my all / And now I
fall to the ground / you hit the wall /
And now I crawl underground.”
Even though the album is described
by those close to her as “more punk
than pop,” the dark and woodsy setting
for the “Let Down” music video nods to
her late father’s famous “Thriller” film.
Indeed, Michael Jackson has left his
mark on Paris.
Eleven years after Michael’s death
from an overdose of prescription drugs,
Paris still carries the scars of a child-
hood that took an unexpected and dev-
astating turn.
When the King of Pop died, ushering
in a chaotic, years-long struggle with
family infighting and multiple suicide
attempts by Paris, she moved out of her
home at 18. On her own, she found and
lost love on at least two occasions, but
those close to her said Glenn felt like
the real deal.
The pair met in 2018 when Glenn’s
heavy metal band, The Trash Dogs,
played a show in Hollywood with Paris’
cousin, Austin Brown. Insiders said
Paris was enamored with Glenn’s uku-lele performance and recruited him for
her folk-pop group The Soundflowers.
“They were inseparable from the
start,” her relative told The Post.
“She got her cousin’s blessing that
Glenn was a good guy, and she never
looked back.”
Paris viewed Glenn much differently
than her previous romances, including
drummer Michael Snoddy, actor Tom
Kilbey and model Cara Delevingne.
“She really thought she had a partner,
if not for the rest of her life, but at least
the type of bond where they could al-
ways depend upon each other,” the rel-
ative added. “She walked different with
Gabe; she talked differently. The way
she looked at him, you knew this was
special. At least, we all thought.”
They confirmed their breakup in
August after two years of dating.
Despite the heartbreak, a family
source said that worries about Paris re-
lapsing into previous self-harming
tendencies and suicidal behavior have
subsided. But it has been a long and
agonizing road to get there.
In 2013, Paris reportedly was hospi-
talized in Los Angeles after cutting herwrist and overdosing on prescription
medication. Family members charac-
terized it as a suicide attempt, which
Paris later acknowledged in a 2017
interview with Rolling Stone.
Just one year earlier, then-14-year-
old Paris was captured on a surveil-
lance video fighting with her aunt
Janet Jackson.
After she tweeted that she hadn’t
seen or heard from grandmother Kath-
erine Jackson in at least eight days,
Paris scuffled with Janet. The “Control”
singer scolded her niece and attempted
to take away her cellphone because she
feared the teen would post private in-
formation on social media.
Then, in 2019, responding to a TMZ
report that Paris had again attempted
suicide and was placed on a 5150 hold,
Paris angrily tweeted, “F--king liars.”
“They had it all wrong,” the family
source said about TMZ’s story. “While
no one, not even she, pretends that it’s
been easy, Paris has had it together for a
while now.”
One person close to the Jacksons
credits her recuperation to her 23-year-
old brother Prince Michael, and her
strong desire to create music and con-
tinue her father’s legacy.
“She realizes she can’t fulfill Mich-
ael’s dream of making this world a bet-
ter place if she’s not here to take the
lead,” the person said.
Prince Michael served as executive
producer of “Wilted,” and family
sources said it’s just one of his many
artistic endeavors.
“Prince has been quietly working in
the television and music industry, pro-
ducing some great stuff,” a relative said.
“They’ve always been close, but there
had been so much going on in every-
one’s life that Paris may have felt lost.Jackson to
messy past:
Just beat it
After splits and suicide
shed a tear: Paris Jackson
gets emotional in the music video
for her new single, “Let Down,” from
her debut solo album, “Wilted.”A Connecticut woman was arrested for allegedly shoot-
ing two children, killing one and critically injuring the
other, according to reports.
State Police arrested Naomi Bell, 43, on murder and at-
tempted murder charges after the children, 7 and 15, were
found in Plymouth Friday evening. According to school au-
thorities, the victims were siblings. Isabel VincentConn. kid-slay horror
A Washington state hiker
who was rescued after being
lost overnight in a whiteout
in Mount Rainier National
Park has been brought back
to life after what his medical
team is calling an amazing
recovery.
The Seattle Times reports
that 45-year-old Michael
Knapinski, of Woodinville,
died in the
emergency
room at Har-
borview Medi-
cal Center after
being airlifted
off the moun-
tain last Sunday.
He had a
pulse when he
arrived at the
hospital but
soon his heart
stopped, said
Dr. Jenelle Bad-
ulak, one of the
first people to
start treating
him.
“He died while he was in
the ER, which gave us the
unique opportunity to try
and save his life by basically
bypassing his heart and
lungs, which is the most ad-
vanced form of artificial life
support that we have in the
world,” Badulak said.
The medical team repeat-
edly performed CPR and
hooked him up to an extra-
corporeal membrane oxy-
genation (ECMO) machine,
which pumps blood out of
the body, removes carbon
dioxide and then returns
the blood into the body.
His heart remained
stopped for 45 minutes.After the doctors restarted
it, the medical team spent
the night beside him to
make sure he continued to
stabilize.
Two days later, Knapinski
woke up.
Trauma nurse Whitney
Holen was there and said
the first thing he wanted
was to call his family.
“He was cry-
ing and they
were crying,
and I’m fairly
sure I cried a
little bit,” Holen
said.
“It was just
really special to
see someone
that we had
worked so hard
on from start to
finish, to then
wake up that
dramatically
and that im-
pressively.”
He continued to have
some trouble with his heart,
kidneys and frostbite, but
doctors said they believe
he’ll be OK.
Knapinski had left for a
snowy hike with a friend on
the morning of Nov. 7.
His friend planned to ski
down the mountain to
Camp Muir, while Knapin-
ski was going to snowshoe
to Paradise.
“I was pretty close to the
end [of the trail]... Then it
turned to whiteout condi-
tions, and I couldn’t see
anything,” Knapinski told
The Seattle Times in a
phone interview Friday.
Marisa Dellatto, WiresHike to
great
beyond
Return from ‘death’
Miracle: Michael
Knapinski’s heart
stopped in the ER.Susan Gregg/Harborview Medical