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Our life after Michael - Jermaine Jackson speaks

THE three orphaned children of Michael Jackson have been going to a Jehovah's Witness church, according to their uncle Jermaine Jackson.

"They go to the (Kingdom) Hall with my mother. We want to keep their feet on the ground," Jermaine said during his visit to Sydney.

"We want to make sure that this success doesn't go to their heads."

He also confirmed the children were in counselling, adding that "with the first passing of Michael they had to have someone to explain that to them". With the children entrusted to his Jackson matriarch Katherine's custody, Jermaine said the 79-year-old was coping with Blanket, 7, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael, 12.

"It's easy for her - she brought us up," he said.

"My mother is very much alive, she's very smart. She knows the name of every type of tree."


Jermaine, in town to promote The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty which is screening on Foxtel's Arena channel, revealed Michael's children played with his son Jermajesty every day and with Tito's grandchild Royal.

Of the Foxtel show, he said: "We just wanted to show we are no different from any other family. It's my job now to try to carry the brothers on.

" I have the ability to lead, not just be a lead singer but be a leader. I'm ready to go, go, go."

Comparing Michael to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa, Jermaine said: "He's special and he's a gift from God. I saw what he did with a blessing that God gave him. He's in the Guinness Book Of Records."

But he declined to comment on Michael's autopsy report because it was under investigation.

Source: Herald Sun