‘I would have killed myself if there were no children’

Pop superstar Michael Jackson revealed in a television interview that his third child was born to a surrogate mother he never met. In a rare...

Pop superstar Michael Jackson revealed in a television interview that his third child was born to a surrogate mother he never met.

In a rare glimpse into his reclusive life, Jackson insisted there was nothing wrong with having children sleep with him in the bedroom of his Neverland ranch and vowed to kill himself if there were no children in the world.

‘‘I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells,’’ Jackson said of his third child.

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Asked how he selected the mother of Prince Michael II, he told a British television documentary: ‘‘It didn’t matter to me as long as she was healthy. I didn’t care what race as long as she is healthy.’’ Jackson said that his former wife, Debbie Rowe, agreed to give birth to his first two children because Jackson was so desperate to have kids.

‘‘She did it for me,’’ he said. ‘‘She said you need to be a daddy…and she wanted to do that for me as a present.’’

He revealed that after Paris was born ‘‘I snatched her and just went home with all the placenta and everything all over her. I’m not kidding. Got her in a towel and ran. They said it was fine… And I got her home and washed it all off.’’

The singer said he would now love to adopt two kids from each continent of the world. ‘‘That is my dream,’’ he added. Jackson has been dogged by controversy and rumour ever since 1993 when he reached a multi-million dollar settlement with a 14-year-old boy, Bashir, who had accused him of sexual molestation. The superstar maintained his own innocence throughout.

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‘‘I have slept in a bed with many children. I slept in a bed with all of them when (Home Alone child star) Macaulay Culkin was little. Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macaulay Culkin was on this side, his sisters in there. We all would just jam in the bed.’’

Jackson ended the 90-minute portrait with a poignant pledge: ‘‘If there were no children on this earth, if someone announced all kids were dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately.’’ (Reuters)