Paris Jackson rushed to hospital after 'suicide attempt'

Emergency services called after reports of 'possible overdose'

• Insiders claims teenager had cut wrist multiple times
• Recovering in a Los Angeles hospital - 'doing OK'
• Paris' mother and grandmother confirm incident
• 'Upset after being refused permission to go to Marilyn Manson concert'

By Chris Johnson and Julie Moult
PUBLISHED: 17:53, 5 June 2013 | UPDATED: 21:29, 5 June 2013

Paris Jackson was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday after an apparent suicide bid.
Her mother Debbie Rowe is understood to have confirmed the reports to Entertainment Tonight and said the 15-year-old is currently at a Los Angeles hospital.


A lawyer for Katherine Jackson, Paris’ grandmother, alluded to how Paris is still coming to terms with the loss of her father Michael Jackson, four years after his death.
'Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are.' Perry Sanders said in a statement to MailOnline.
'It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. Paris is physically fine and is getting appropriate medical attention,' Mr Sanders added, as he made an appeal to the media for privacy.
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Hospital drama: Paris Jackson, pictured here earlier this month in West Hollywood, was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Paris was taken from her Calabasas family home on a stretcher at around 2am and conveyed to a nearby hospital, according to TMZ.

Scott Miller of the Los Angeles County Fire Department tells People Magazine that paramedics responded to a 911 call at 1.27am 'regarding a possible overdose' while TMZ reports a source as saying the teenager had cut herself multiple times on one of her wrists.

Insiders told Entertainment Tonight Paris was upset because she was not allowed to go to a Marilyn Manson concert in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Dark: Hours earlier Paris tweeted a series of alarming messages on Twitter, quoting the sorrowful Beatles song Yesterday

Jackson compound: Paris was stretchered out from her Calabasas home to hospital at around 2am on Wednesday

Recovering: Paris is believed to be at the West Hills Medical Center recuperating and is said to to be 'doing ok'

 

Paris Jackson suicide attempt

The incident unfolded just hours after the teenager posted a series of alarming messages on Twitter.

Around midnight she recited the sorrowful Beatles’ song Yesterday to her million plus followers, writing: 'Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away, now it looks as though they’re here to stay.’

An hour previously, she posted: 'I wonder why tears are salty.'

Teenage woes: Paris seen here during a recent web chat where she gave fans make-up tips

Bonding: Paris has been getting closer with her mother Debbie Rowe of late, seen here together last month

The 911 call came in at 1.27am local time, according to TMZ and the website reports Paris is now 'doing ok'.

Paris’s mother Debbie told Entertainment Tonight how her daughter is going through a difficult time at present and 'has a lot going on'.

Rowe's lawyer Eric George told MailOnline: 'We appreciate everyone’s thoughts for Paris at this time and their respect for the family’s privacy.’

Devestated: Paris with her aunt Janet during the memorial service held for her father in Los Angeles in 2009

The teen was listed as a potential witness in a massive lawsuit currently being brought by the Jackson family against AEG – the concert promoters behind her late father Michael’s doomed tour This Is It.

The family, who want $40 billion, say superstar Michael died from an overdose of prescription drugs after a punishing schedule of rehearsals prior to the tour.

The trial which began in LA in April is scheduled to last three months. Paris’s older brother Prince, 16, is also prepared to take the witness stand. 

Michael Jackson died in June 2009 aged 50 after suffering a heart attack brought on  from an overdose of propofol and benzodiazepine.

In recent months, Paris has become increasingly close to her mother, Michael Jackson’s second wife, Debbie Rowe.

Mother and daughter have been pictured spending time together amid reports Paris will move in with her mother at her Palmdale ranch in California over the summer months.

Rowe, 54, met Michael when she was a nurse for Dr Arnold Klein, the singer’s dermatologist. The pair married when she was six months pregnant with Prince in November 1996.

The following year she gave birth to Paris. The couple divorced in 1999 and Rowe accepted an $8million settlement and gave full custody to the popstar.
Music producer Russell Simmons has tweeted his support to the Jackson family, writing: 'My prayers are with Paris Jackson and her family at this time.'
Meanwhile Michael Jackson's former lawyer Tom Mesereau, who represented the singer during his 2005 child molestation trial, said he is 'heartbroken over the news.
He told RadarOnline: 'I'm heartbroken over Paris Jackson’s suicide attempt. I’m shocked, and frankly, at a loss for words.
'Paris is just a wonderful young lady, beautiful, and extremely bright.'

King Of Pop: Michael Jackson seen with daughter Paris in 2005 in London, four years before his death