“We have a contractual agreement, who she is and everything, that’s how we worked that out.”

However, despite confirming he had a relationship with the mother, he then completely changed his story, later telling Bashir: “I used a surrogate mom, my own sperm cells. She doesn’t know me, I don’t know her.”

Despite these mixed messages from Jackson himself, The Mirror claimed to have uncovered Blanket’s surrogate’s real name: Helena.

According to The Mirror, she was reportedly a Mexican nurse who was paid a £15,600 ($20,000) surrogacy fee.