Oprah Winfrey's interview with Katherine Jackson october 2010

 

Grandmother Katherine Jackson invited Winfrey's cameras into their Encino, California, home last month to talk about her son's controversial life and his sudden death last year.

"Sometimes in the day, I can hear his laughter in my mind," Katherine Jackson told Winfrey.

The last segment of the hour-long show featured the first time Prince, Paris and Blanket -- Michael's three children -- have been interviewed on camera.

"Tell her what you'd like to do when you grow up," Katherine Jackson said to Prince, 13.

"Produce movies and direct," he said.

Paris, 12, then spoke up.

"I'd like to be an actress when I'm older," she said. Paris assured Winfrey acting was a serious passion.

"I sometimes do improvs," she said. "I used to do it with my dad."

Blanket, 8, said little in the interview, beyond suggesting that his oldest brother was given more freedom when they lived with their father.

"He could get away with anything," Blanket said.

When family patriarch Joe Jackson joined his wife for a part of the interview, Winfrey asked about his infamously stern discipline practices with his nine children.