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, Riley took a look back on the two years she and her late brother, Benjamin Keough, had the Billie Jean singer as their stepfather.“Our life wasn’t crazier because that was already there. That already existed, like the press and the crazy, the paparazzi and, you know, all that,” she explained.
“But ... I think when saw Michael’s life, there were things that he had that she didn’t have. She didn’t have a plane at the time, or things like that.” “So she then was like, ‘Oh, I should have a plane, and I should have this and that,’ and so our life in that way kind of got bigger,” Riley added. “Before that, she was with my dad, and their life was very simple ... she didn’t have 10 million assistants. She didn’t need all of that, and I think that changed.”Michael Jackson in May 1994, less than a year after splitting from her children’s father, Danny Keough, after about six years of marriage.
“I would imagine that my dad was really heartbroken and reading the news, and... I would imagine he said all kinds of things to my mum that we didn’t know about,” she said. “The way my parents parented was very much like, ‘We don’t fight around the kids. We don’t ever say anything around them.’ We didn’t know about any allegations. We had no awareness of that.
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