Michael Jackson's son, Prince, had 'nightmares' after watching his father's music video.
Prince joined Good Morning Britain to discuss his father's legacy on the 40th anniversary of Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. Every year his friends and family hold a charity event at their family home in honour of Michael's memory with all proceeds going to Heal Los Angeles.
GMB's Adil Ray quizzed Prince on his first viewing of Thriller and his thoughts on the "mini-movie." The 25-year-old was born over a decade after the visuals dropped but admitted it still left him with "nightmares" of his father.
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He said: "One of my earliest memories is watching Thriller at the theatre in Neverland. We watched it on the big screen but seeing that film, seeing my dad transform into the monster, I used to have nightmares about when he would turn around and say 'Get away!'
"It was that mid-transformation that just terrified me and he thought it would be a funny joke to tell me that was real. The night that we watched it was the night of a full moon and he was messing around with my sister and me and we got so scared of him we'd run away because we thought he was going to turn into the whercat."
Michael Jackson passed away in 2009 but Prince said his legacy and words have continued to stay with him. He said: "I got the complete package. He gave me so many nuggets of information that I still use and that's what I love. He would also tell us it's important to be a kid at heart and I tried to take that to heart. It's way too easy to forget the inner child and it's sad to think about that.
Prince grew up after Michael's peak and only discovered the extent of his fame by looking at old tour videos and magazine articles. It wasn't until he saw "grown men fainting" that he realised how famous and how much of an impact his father had.
He added: "It's interesting for me because I never knew what it was like to not be famous. I felt I started to realise it was something more than that when I saw videos of men fainting over my dad. Even now, I'm still understanding the full weight of his legacy, his impact was so much deeper than I could ever comprehend."
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