Riley Keough Call Her Daddy podcast
by 🍡 Lucia N : Viral Content
Riley Keough opened up about what it was like growing up in the same house as Michael Jackson while the child abuse allegations were swirling. She also shared how her father reacted to the situation. "My dad said all kinds of things to my mom, he was really heartbroken reading the news, I'm just..."
Transcript (en)
Obviously, before your mom's relationship with him, there were allegations of abuse and that he assaulted children. Then your mom went on to marry him and you spent a good amount of time with him. Were there any adults in your life that were like, wait, I don't know if you should be spending time at Neverland. I don't know if we want you to be there. Was your dad nervous? I was never told anything. so even as it's and it's actually not something I ever asked as an adult why do you think I don't know I think it just like was what it was like I didn't I don't know it just never came to mind I guess um I would imagine that my dad was really heartbroken and reading the news and I'm sure that I'm just imagining of course I would imagine he said all kinds of things to my mom you know that that we didn't know about, but nothing like the way my parents parented was very much like we don't fight around the kids. We don't ever say anything around them. There was no, like we didn't know anything. We didn't know about any allegations. We didn't know. We had no awareness of that. As an adult, when you look back on that time of your life, like how do you feel about it now? I mean, the one thing I know is that they were in love and that their love for one another was genuine, you know, because I was there and I remember everything else. Like, I don't know, because I wasn't there for, you know.
