Michael Jackson's ex-wife admits the singer's children are from a sperm donor
Debbie Rowe affirms that the marriage never had sexual relations and that she felt "like a mare being inseminated"
Michael Jackson's second marriage, to the then unknown nurse Debbie Rowe, is the one that is causing the most talk. Although they were only married three years, now, two decades later, Rowe has revealed that he never had sex with Jackson and that he felt "like a mare" when he underwent artificial insemination.
One of the issues that now come to light is that a sperm donor was used for the conception of the couple's children. It is not the first news that questions the biological paternity of the singer over the last two decades. In fact, in 2013 a British actor who was a friend of the King of Pop assured that he had donated semen for the conception of the boys and invited them to meet him and spend time with his family in the United Kingdom.
"They fertilized me. The way mares are fertilized to reproduce. It was something very technical," says Rowe, as reported by The Sun newspaper, which quotes British newspapers from a decade ago. In a very graphic way, the mother of the singer's two oldest children affirms: "Just like I put the sperm in my horses. They did that with me. I was their thoroughbred mare," says Rowe.
"Michael was a lonely, divorced man who wanted to have children. I was the one who told him: 'I will have your children.' I offered him my belly, it was a gift. It was something I did to make him happy," collects the British newspaper, which also cites statements from 2003 in which Rowe claimed that she had "never" done anything "to win the title of mother." "Because Michael did everything. I didn't try to be a mother. I didn't change diapers, I didn't get up in the middle of the night. Even if I was there, Michael did everything."
The singer was married twice, but neither of those marriages ended well. The first was with Lisa Marie Preysler (daughter of Elvis Presley). It barely lasted 20 months and was considered an advertising strategy for both of them.
Jackson married Debbie Rowe at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Sydney, Australia, in November 1996, when he was 38 and she was 37. He was touring the country and she was a nurse in the office of his dermatologist, Arnold Klein , for which they had known each other for several years. They separated less than three years later, in July 1999, and the divorce came in October of that same year. When they married (both dressed in black from head to toe), she was six months pregnant: she gave birth to their son Prince in February 1997 and, in April 1998, their second daughter, Paris. After their divorce she was left with custody. Already in 2002, Jackson had a third child, nicknamed Blanket, who according to him had been conceived with his sperm through a surrogate. After his death it was his mother, Katherine, who took care of the children.
Jackson was so anxious about having his children with him that he ignored even medical advice. In 2003 he told an anecdote about something that happened when his daughter Paris was born: "I was so eager to take her home that when they were going to cut the cord, and I hate to say this, I grabbed her and took her home with the placenta and everything." . "I'm not kidding," he assured, "I put her on a towel and ran. They said I was fine." Rowe stayed in the hospital recovering from the delivery.
The public image of Michael Jackson is going through a difficult time. A recent HBO documentary called Leaving Neverland has collected the testimonies of two men who claim that, as children, the American musician abused them. Wade Robson and James Safechuck, 36 and 40, have described the singer as a "master of manipulation" and consider that he managed to gain the trust of their families and then abuse them "hundreds and hundreds of times."
The Jackson family threatens to sue those responsible for the film, which it describes as "public lynching." For her part, Paris, her middle daughter, tries to defend her father's innocence. She is also concerned that these events may affect her fledgling acting career. "Her concern," said a source close to Paris, "is that any film she stars in will fail if when people see her on the screen they only think of Michael's abuse scandal. She wants to be an actress but she knows this could affect those plans ".
