Since her shocking suicide attempt, a still-grieving PARIS JACKSON has made secret visits to her late father’s beloved Neverland Ranch, inside sources have told The National ENQUIRER.
The 16-year-old helped plant a Zen garden on the property while rebuilding her life at a private boarding school, insiders revealed.
But the King of Pop’s daughter still struggles with the impending loss of her father’s famed Los Olivos, Calif., estate, where he lived from 1988 to 2005.
“More than anyone else, losing Neverland hurts Paris the most without a doubt,” a family insider told The ENQUIRER.
“She’s been there more than her siblings – but, even more than that, Michael’s parents, brothers and sisters never go up.”
In June 2013, a troubled Paris cut her wrists and took an overdose of Motrin pills. Afterward, worried family members enrolled her in a therapeutic boarding school in Utah.
She’s also grown closer to her mother, Debbie Rowe, and regularly visits Neverland, where she’s lovingly planted a secret Zen garden where a Ferris wheel once stood.
The Zen garden also features benches where Paris meditates, and has perennial plants in the shape of animals that were once housed in Neverland’s zoo.
“There are things up at Neverland that she insisted upon while she still has the access, and the garden was one of them,” disclosed the source.
According to another insider, Paris had Michael’s favorite image – a Peter Pan–like boy sitting on a quarter moon – carved into the ground in the middle of the garden.
Restoring Neverland has helped Paris recall many of the things her father taught her, sources said.
“She reflects on how Michael would talk to her about not losing her innocence as a child, to not let people – even family – take advantage of her, and to always look after her brothers,” the insider said.
A cash-strapped Michael turned over the estate to Colony Capital before he died at age 50 in June 2009.
The firm has put a $75 million price tag on Neverland, but there had been hope that the executors of Michael’s $1 billion estate would buy the property.
“We are frustrated, bitterly disappointed, and saddened that it has come to this,” said a representative for the estate executors.
