Mark Lester, Michael’s closest friend told the News of the World on August 8 that the King of Pop’s daughter Paris is his “daughter”.
“I gave Michael my sperm so that he could have kids – and I believe Paris is my daughter”, he said.
Mark's daughter Harriet looks like Paris. Source: News of the World
This is the secret he kept for 13 years.
And now he declared he is willing to take a paternity test to prove it.
“In 1996 Michael asked me if I would give him my sperm and I said yes. It was a gift to him, no money was paid, it was something I was honoured to do. He wanted children so badly”, Mark told the press.
The reason Mark told public about his secret is that he could not have chance to contact with Michael’s children after Michael’s death.
“With Michael’s mother Katherine now their legal guardian it’s like the kids are being isolated,” he said. “Up until Michael’s memorial I was in touch with them on a weekly basis.”
“I’m the Godparent to them and Michael was Godparent to all my four kids. Our two families spent a lot of time together, and had a lot fun together. Now I’m not able to have any communication with the children. My repeated phone calls aren’t returned and emails go unanswered.”
“This isn’t what Michael would have wanted. I feel I have to come forward, as my only way of saying, ‘Please don’t shut me out!’”
“Michael found it very difficult to have relationships with women,” said Mark. “He found the sexual act something he couldn’t do. When he was about 16 or 17 he had a very famous female child star who basically jumped on him, naked in his hotel room, and tried to seduce him.”
“He became very scared, and found it so disturbing he couldn’t perform. Michael wasn’t gay. But I’d say he was asexual.”
“He was very conscious of his own body. He had vitiligo (a skin lightening condition). Believe me, it wasn’t just his face that was white, he had it all over.”
“Then in one of our regular phone conversations he said he realised having kids was a natural thing but that he just couldn’t do it.”
Mark, the closest friend of Jack
Sperm donation ‘s something I wouldn’t do for anyone else. But I wanted to do it for him. I didn’t know if it would happen. But I was honoured to do it, said Mark.
However Mark’s story seem doesn’t help him when a lot of readers are angry at him. They said he should keep his secret for himself.
And they supposed that he told the public his story because of money and fame.
Perhaps the most important thing in this story is that: Does Paris need another father when Michael went away forever? If she only loves Michael and that’s all, then Mark’s story means nothing to her.
