2007年的一張合照
2011年6月2日 - 5月31日，帕麗斯·希爾頓（Paris Hilton）和母親凱西·希爾頓（Kathy Hilton）做客皮爾斯·摩根（Piers Morgan）脫口秀節目。凱西曾是邁克爾·傑克遜（Michael Jackson）的同學，她講述了與傑克遜的友情。
摩根：很多人聲稱他們認識邁克爾·傑克遜，事實上，你是他的中學同學，直到他去世，你們一直是親密的朋友。在我所見的節目中，你從來沒有在公共場合真正談論過他，講講你與他的關系吧。
凱西：我們初見時，他14歲，我13歲，從此我們成了朋友，並整年都在一起。我們常常保持聯系。當我搬到紐約，他會來拜訪，我們經常去看他的演唱會。你知道，我們開始——我們常常一起打惡作劇電話。那時我們還都是孩子。
我們在一起很開心。我生下帕麗斯出生時他還來拜訪。
摩根：帕麗斯剛剛出生時他在哪里？
凱西：那時她還只有幾個月大。
摩根：真的嗎？
凱西：後來他搬到華爾道夫酒店住了6個月，那時我們在那住了8年。就在他去世前，他在貝爾艾爾酒店（Bel Air Hotel），我們也住在那裏，當時我們的房子在修葺。所以他在那裏呆了3,4個月。
所以我們在一起過度了快樂的時光。
摩根：你認為對邁克爾的誤解有哪些？
凱西：再沒有像他一樣友善、慷慨、關愛、甜蜜、聰明、令人驚奇的父親了。在貝爾艾爾酒店，他沒有雇傭任何保姆。當我去接孩子們出去玩時，他會給他們梳頭，扣上毛衣扣子，他是那麼溫暖那麼棒。
我愛他，他們一家是如此的美麗。
摩根：當聽說他去世時，你在哪里？
凱西：我剛剛回到酒店。
摩根：你是怎麼聽到消息的？
凱西：我助理告訴我的。我倒在了地上，我姐姐將我扶起來，徑直去了他家，因為我想孩子們會在那裏。
摩根：你去了醫院嗎？
凱西：是的。
摩根：那是種什麼情景？
凱西：孩子們、傑克遜夫人和所有兄弟姐妹都在房間裏，相互抱頭痛哭，每個人都不知所措。
他是一個與孩子如此親密的父親。自從他們出生，他都全心全意的奉獻養育他們陪伴他們。然後拉托亞（Latoya）和蘭迪（Randy）帶我去告別。
摩根：你進去時，他還活著嗎？
凱西：不。
摩根：你對他說什麼了嗎？
凱西：是的。
摩根：你說了些什麼？
凱西： 我擦拭了他的額頭、手臂、腿和腳，我只是 — 告訴他我如此愛他，你知道，輕輕耳語有趣的事情。
摩根：他的去世，非常的不幸，是嗎？
凱西：他在酒店時，狀態還那麼好。每天很早起床與孩子們玩耍。非常令人震驚。
摩根：帕麗斯，你與邁克爾的關系好嗎？
帕麗斯：是的，其中我的第一個記憶就當母親帶我們去《顫栗》（Thriller）音樂錄影帶的拍攝現場。我們還有照片。我一直愛著他。我常常去看他的演唱會，他會把我姐妹和我帶上舞臺一起演唱。
我一直深愛著他，他是個不可思議的人。
凱西：他對我說，我想去看看帕麗斯。我說，她出城了。他說他想去看看她的錄音室。我說，好吧，咱們上車吧。那是晚上8點半了。
我說我們現在不帶任何報表。我們出發。裏克（Rick，凱西的丈夫）開車，你坐後面。孩子們也坐了上來，我們一直開到帕麗斯的錄音室。
他熱愛觀察一切。他盯著墻上的畫兒，他熱愛藝術，帕麗斯的壁櫥以及她的匹諾曹和小仙女的藏品。
他告訴我，帕麗斯讓他想起了他熱衷的那些小東西。他熱愛金色，畫框……
摩根：他有著驚人的天賦，是嗎？他用你的名字為他的孩子命名，這給你怎麼樣的感受？
帕麗斯：我深感榮幸。
凱西：你知道，拉托亞會告訴你這個故事。我們還小時，我們約定不管誰生出第一個女孩，就給她起名帕麗斯。於是我第一個先生。所以我先用了這個名字。
摩根：他去世後，你還見過孩子們嗎？
凱西：幾周前，我見了他們。我們一起外出就餐。我不敢相信他們都長那麼大了。 我們大約3個星期前去的那裏。
摩根：他們都被好好的照顧著嗎？
凱西：哦，你在開玩笑吧？他們住在一棟新房子裏，傑克遜夫人也在。他們有一個難以置信的溫暖的家，很好的保安措施。我們吃了一頓大家庭式的晚餐。他們做了作業，走下來讓奶奶檢查，自己洗了澡，向奶奶道晚安，說我愛你，奶奶。能見到他們很棒。
摩根：我有種感覺，基於即將進行的庭審，牽扯了醫生、他的去世以及其他所有一切，最終他會淪落到一個悲哀的角色，沉迷於藥物以及其他。這是對他錯誤的描述，對嗎？
凱西：我能告訴你，在貝爾艾爾酒店，沒有任何，沒有任何藥物。因為他和我一直在一起。我們總是在一起談話。
他跟孩子們在一起。我從內心中相信，因為他投入到演唱會之類的事，很可能影響到睡眠。他不是一個藥物濫用者，他只是有入睡困難的問題。
我的意思是，這不是有人為了愉悅而沉迷某物的情況。
摩根：你認為他的遺產會是什麼？
凱西：現在他走了，人人都認識到他是多麼好的人，他對慈善的貢獻是多美好的事。有趣的是，我們聽不到— 我不會提及那些事，但他留下了三個美麗聰慧的孩子。
摩根：他們都是他的遺產。
凱西：絕對是。
凱西於2009年傑克遜剛去世時，也表達了同樣的感想，詳見：
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20287787_20295491,00.html
MORGAN: Kathy, when we come back, I want to talk to you about your very good friend, Michael Jackson.
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MORGAN: Back with the Hiltons. Kathy, this is fascinating. A lot of people claim to have known Michael Jackson. You actually went to high school with Michael Jackson. And you stayed close friends with him right until the end of his life.
And you’ve never really spoken about him much in public, not that I can see. Tell me about your relationship with him.
K. HILTON: We met when I was 13 and he was 14 and developed a friendship and a bond throughout the years. And we always kept in touch. And then when I moved to New York and he would come, and we’d always go to his concerts. And, you know, we started with — we used to make prank phone calls together. And we were little kids.
We had a really great time. And then he came and visited when Paris was born. And then he ended up living at the –
MORGAN: He was there when Paris was first brought into this world.
K. HILTON: She was just a few months old.
MORGAN: Really?
K. HILTON: He ended up moving into the Waldorf for six months when we were living there for eight years. And right before he died, he was at the Bel Air Hotel, where we were living while we were renovating our home. So he was there about three or four months.
So we got to spend, you know, great time.
MORGAN: We talk about misconceptions with Paris . What were the misconceptions about Michael, do you think?
K. HILTON: Well, there was not a kinder, more generous, loving, sweet, smart, smart — I can’t — the most wonderful father. At the Bel Air, he did not have any nanny at all. And when I’d go to pick up the kids to take them somewhere, he’d be brushing their hair and buttoning up the sweater and just so warm and wonderful.
And I just — I love him. His whole family, they’re a really wonderful, beautiful family.
MORGAN: Where were you when you heard he died?
K. HILTON: I had just come back to the hotel.
MORGAN: How did you hear the news?
P. HILTON: My assistant told me. And I literally fell on the floor. And my sister came and picked me up and we went directly to the house, because I thought the children would be there.
MORGAN: Did you go to the hospital when you –
K. HILTON: Yes.
MORGAN: What was the scene there?
K. HILTON: The children and Mrs. Jackson and all the brothers and sisters and just everybody was in this room. And just crying and hugging each other and just in a daze.
And this is a father that was so with his children. He’s dedicated since they were born to raising and being with them. And then Latoya and Randy took me in to say good-bye.
I think if I hadn’t, I would never quite in my head believe. Because even though he’s a friend, he was such a powerful person.
MORGAN: Was he still alive when you –
K. HILTON: No.
MORGAN: Did you say anything?
K. HILTON: Yes.
MORGAN: What did you say?
K. HILTON: I rubbed his head and his arms and his legs and his feet and I just — I told him I love him so much and, you know, whispered some funny things to him, and that was it.
MORGAN: Incredibly sad end to his life, wasn’t it?
K. HILTON: And he was so fabulous at the hotel. Up early every morning, playing with the kids. Really shocking.
MORGAN: Paris , did you know Michael well?
P. HILTON: Yeah, I grew up — just my mom — I remember — one of the first memories I have of him was when my mom took us to the music video set of “Thriller.” And we have the pictures still. I just always loved him. I used to go to his concerts and he’d bring my sister and I on stage and we’d sing up there.
I just always loved him so much. He was such an amazing man.
MORGAN: He said to me, Kathy, I’d like to go see Paris . I said, well, she’s out of town. Well, I’d like to see her recording studio. And I said, OK, all right. And I said just jump in the car. It was like 8:30 at night.
I said we don’t have to get any security right now. Let’s just go. Rick will drive. You jump in the back. And so the kids came and we all went up and we were up there at Paris ’.
And he loves to look at everything. So he’s looking at all the pictures on the walls. And he loves art. And in her closet and at all her collections of Pinocchio and Tinkerbell and all that.
And he said she reminds me — she — she’s — what did he say? Something like, she reminds me sometimes a little of the way certain things that I like. And he loved the gold and the frames and –
P. HILTON: You took him in the studio.
K. HILTON: I took him in the studio and he got to see everything.
MORGAN: And he was an extraordinary talent, wasn’t he? And he took your name, of course, for one of his children. How did that make you feel?
P. HILTON: I was honored.
MORGAN: Was it a direct result?
K. HILTON: You know, Latoya will tell you the story. When we were younger, we all would say that whoever has the first girl is going to name her Paris . And I had the first girl. So I got to do it first. And then when he had his daughter –
MORGAN: Have you seen the children much since he died?
K. HILTON: I saw them a couple weeks ago. We went out and had dinner. And I can’t believe how big they are. We went over there about three weeks ago.
MORGAN: And are they being well looked after?
K. HILTON: Oh, are you kidding? They’re in a new house and Mrs. Jackson is there. They have an incredible, beautiful home, great security. And we had a big family dinner. They went up and did their homework and came down and showed grandma and had their bath and said good night, grandma, I love you. And it was great to see them.
MORGAN: There’s a kind of feeling because I guess of the impending court actions involving the doctor and his death and everything else, that he’d become sort of a pathetic character in the end, addicted to all this medication and so on. Is that an inaccurate portrayal, do you think?
K. HILTON: Well, I can tell you that when he was at the Bel Air Hotel, there was none — there was none of that. Because I had — he was right underneath where I was. And we talked all the time. In fact, if we would be going somewhere in the daytime, he’d say 1:00 down at the fountain. And if I was five minutes late, he was very on top of it.
And he was with his kids. I believe in my heart that as he got into the concert thing, it was hard for him to sleep probably. He was not a drug addict. He had a problem going to sleep.
I mean, this is not somebody that recreationally would abuse something and I guess the levels went up and up and up.
MORGAN: What do you think his legacy will be, Michael Jackson?
K. HILTON: Well, I think that now that he’s gone, everybody realizes what a good person, all the wonderful things that he’s done for charity. And it’s interesting that we don’t hear — well, I won’t get into any of that, but he’s left three beautiful children.
MORGAN: Who will be his legacy, I think.
K. HILTON: Absolutely.
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