Police: Katherine Jackson Not Missing, Safe In Arizona
July 22 2012, Published 2:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Katherine Jackson is alive and well in with her daughter Rebbie in Arizona, Los Angeles Police Department officials said late Sunday, after her nephew Trent reported the Jackson family matriarch missing.
According to a report from the TODAY show on Monday, Katherine's excursion to Arizona was planned in advance.
Katherine's son Jemaine released a statement decrying the public hysteria that sprouted out of earlier reports, adding his mother was ordered to "de-stress" on the trip and not answer the phone or check the computer. He added that no one's access has been blocked to her.
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Here is his full statement:
Let me put to bed today’s nonsense: as I made clear some days ago, Mother is safe and well in Arizona with her daughter and our sister, Rebbie, resting up on doctor’s advice, so it is beyond me how she can be reported “missing"
This incredulous claim was made for reasons best known to the adult/s who filed it but it seems no accident that it comes after we, the sons and daughters, put in place care-taking for our own mother, taking her to Arizona in line with doctor’s advice following a check-up.
Furthermore, it dismays me that such an alarmist “missing person” report has caused unnecessary anxiety among Michael’s children who will understandably react to what they misunderstand, hear or are told.
No-one is being “blocked” from speaking with Mother. She is merely an 82-year-old woman following doctor’s orders to rest-up and de-stress, away from phones and computers. Everyone has been well aware of this within the family, but I would like to reiterate my reassurance to the outside world that Mother is fine. In the meantime, thank you for all your thoughts and concerns.
Katharine, 82, has been raising Michael's three kids (Pr