Michael Jackson’s British goddaughter breaks 10-year silence to reveal truth about bizarre relationship that left star obsessed with marrying her 12-year-old sister
MICHAEL Jackson’s secret British goddaughter has broken her silence to reveal the “truth” about her family’s relationship with the star.
And single mum Lucy Lester says she believes the oddball King of Pop is not capable of the sickening child sex abuse claims against him.
The 27-year-old, who lives in Gloucestershire, said she and her siblings saw the singer’s kid as cousins and even spent Christmas together.
And she says his bizarre ‘Wacko Jacko’ image does not resemble the man known by her, her sisters Harriet and Olivia and their brother Felix.
The siblings are the children of former child actor and Oliver! star Mark Lester, who was close to Jackson when he was a teenager.
Speaking to Gloucestershire Live about the abuse claims, Lucy said: “One hundred percent I never saw anything to suggest anything like that.
“I never had the slightest inkling, saw or heard anything that made me feel uncomfortable.
“‘I do not believe he did it and there are other factors to consider such as monetary gain from the people who accused him.”
Lucy spoke out just weeks after the superstar’s private doctor claimed his client wanted to “marry” her sister Harriet.
Doctor Conrad Murray claimed Jacko wanted to wed the then 12 year-old whom he apparently likened to Princes Diana.
His comments came to light following outrageous new allegations which emerged in the documentary Leaving Neverland
Speaking to the Sun last month, Mark Lester insisted the pop star was “just naive” and could never have abused kids.
And Lucy said she is also convinced her godfather is innocent and never saw anything to suggest he was capable of child abuse.
She said:”Having to hear people say things about him when they don’t know him is probably the most difficult thing of all.
“I can speak from personal experience and all I can say is that I never thought there was anything untoward. Michael was a lovely family man.
“I don’t get into arguments about it. There’s no point. But there is nothing that has made me feel like it could possibly be true.
“The person described in the newspapers who allegedly did these things was so far from the Michael I knew.
“All I can say is that I racked up a lot of hours with him and I never ever saw anything to suggest anything like that.”
Lucy said her famous dad first met Jackson before she was even born.
She said: “Dad met Michael when he was 18, long before I was even born so for me it’s always been pretty normal.
‘IT WAS ALL NORMAL’
“It’s only now looking back that it sounds pretty surreal, as if you are describing someone else’s life not your own.
“But it was just normal at the time.”
The first time she met the world-famous superstar was when he flew her family to stay with him in Las Vegas.
“It was Hallowe’en, which is really big in America, and we went trick or treating with Michael and the kids,” she revealed.
“I remember children walking past with their parents and saying ‘Look it’s Michael Jackson’ and then somebody else would say ‘Don’t be ridiculous, it’s someone dressed up’.
“It was so funny because nobody believed it was him.”
After that the families met up every time the star came to England and they formed a strong bond with his children Prince, Paris and Blanket.
Once Jackson rented a sultan’s palace in Bahrain in 2005 he put the Lesters up in the nearby Ritz Hotel so they could spend Christmas together.
When the star died in 2009 it hit the Lester family hard and Lucy said she had hoped it was all a big hoax.
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She said: “He passed away on 25 June and it was my 18th birthday on July 15.
“I went out with some friends and obviously a lot of the clubs were playing his music as a tribute
“One of his songs came on, I think it was You are Not Alone, and I had a complete and utter breakdown in the club.
“I hadn’t cried until then but I went out in a ball of tears. I don’t know if it was because it had finally hit home and hearing music made me think how I would never see him again, but I had a meltdown.”