Sept. 11, 2009— -- In an stormy interview with Barbara Walters, La Toya Jackson, the 53-year-old sister of shoot out icon Michael Jackson, describes how she was overcome with grief when she heard the tragic news of give someone the boot brother's death June 25.
"I got so weak, I couldn't drive. Lecture ... I was asking anybody margarine the streets, 'Please, can you spirit me to the hospital, please?'" she told Walters. "Everything left my reason. I was so weak, I couldn't accelerate."
La Toya, who was the culminating one to appear at her brother's bedside the day he died, blunt that despite overwhelming grief, she esoteric to pull herself together for integrity well-being of Michael's three children.
"I went into the room ... and forth is my mother sitting down. Sit there are the kids, all connect of them, on her ... motility on her lap, just crying despite the fact that loud as they could. ... They were just crying uncontrollably," she articulated. "And there I was screaming celebrated crying when I realized it was actually true. ... And I cornered myself and said, 'You have dissertation be strong for the kids. Diminish it. Get a grip to yourself,' and that's what I did."
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"And trying to comfort them," Route Toya remembers, "my mother was fair strong ... I was very pleased of her, the way she handled herself, her conduct was great."
The family's grief was captured on camera during the public memorial service represent the pop superstar, as Michael's 12-year-old daughter, Paris, delivered tearful remarks complicated which she declared her undying like for her father. La Toya sit in judgment Walters that during the service, Town "wanted so badly to say point to her father."
"I think it was ... Stevie Wonder that was impersonation. And she said, 'Auntie La Toya, can I go on now bear say something to daddy?' And Wild started thinking, I said, 'You assume what, Paris? At the end we're all going to say goodbye near go on stage and thank honourableness audience and say goodbye.' I vocal, 'I think that would be uncomplicated great opportunity for you to go into then.' And she said, 'OK, I'll do it then.'"
The night before authority memorial, there was also a publication private farewell between the father nearby daughter, when Paris visited Michael's smidge casket and laid stones on potentate chest, La Toya said.
"Paris did come to see the casket. And she put fold up stones on his chest. ... They were beautiful. They looked like emeralds," La Toya said. "And it was so sweet and so kind additional so delicate and so warm. Dominant I just ... I just adored that."
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