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our thanks to adam levine, alice eve, apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time. thank you for watching. "nightline" is next. tonight on "nightline," jackson family curse? the urgent call for help. >> 20 motrin and cut her arm with a kitchen knife. >> paris jackson rushed to the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. what demons plague this to my knowledger who has witnessed so much of her family's fame and misfortune? and was anybody listening when i know she posted an apparent cry for help on youtube? >> i need help. i'm crazy. i'm crazy. >> summer is almost here and the time is right for the perfect smashburger. tonight, the hottest thing between the bun. can these five ounces conquer the fast food world? and golden oldie. she is 84, but that is not the number that counts.
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she is michael jackson's only daughter and early this morning in a scene eerily reminiscent of her father's final hours, she was rushed to the hospital. it was an apparent suicide attempt. being a teenager is difficult under any circumstances, but imagine how tough it must be for paris jackson. when her father was live, she lived in a protective bubble. since then she's been thrust in a harsh life, dealing with grief, bullying at school and turmoil at home.
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last night it all came to a head and david wright is on the story. >> this is a face that rarely is seen in public without makeup. >> just a few days ago, the king of pop's daughter seemed like a typical teenage girl. video blogging her beauty secrets. confiding about the man of her dreams. >> i had a fantasy i was going to marry a cowboy. >> a little goofy, a little lonely, but not out of the norm for a teenage kid. >> hello there. th >> then days later, an eerily familiar 911 call. paris jackson rushed to the hospital by ambulance at 2:00 a.m. from the jackson family compound. >> female 15 o.d.'d on 20 motrin and cut her arm with a kitchen knife. >> this was a serious suicide attempt, not a cry for help.
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what comes out is there's been other attempts of suicide. she's a troubled young girl. >> what seems to be the trouble? i mean, there's the obvious. >> there's a lot of troubles, let me tell you. >> all of them stemming pretty directly from the loss of her father. michael jackson famously protected his kids, trying to shield them from the glare of the spotlight that had robbed him of his schield hoochildhood. >> i can't take a walk in the park. you feel like you're in prison. >> i just want to say -- >> speak up. >> reporter: his funeral marking the first time paris jackson ever spoke in public. >> daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine. and i just want to say that i love him so much. >> i think for all michael
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jackson was and wasn't, what we do know, he was a darn good father. he cared deeply. he cared deeply about his kids. >> reporter: a heart breaking loss that suddenly thrust her into a much more complicated life. >> it's like living in a pinball machine in a lot of ways. >> reporter: but this is not a family noted for its functionality. >> this is not a family that operates in lock step. this is not the oz mondays. this is a family with a lot of different meem with a lot of visions and huge success is, ego and income disparities in the family. >> paris jackson has managed to grow into a poised young actress who seems to have inherited her father's flair. sharing dance moves with ellen degeneres in one of her first grown-up interviews. >> your aim is to get your elbow to hit your ribs. >> i don't feel cool like that at all. >> sharing with oprah winfrey the fact that she's faced normal
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teen problems including bullying. >> people tried to bully you? really? how so. >> well, at school and some people try to cyberbully me. they try to get to me with words. but that doesn't really work. >> do you think they're jealous? >> maybe, i don't know. >> it's understandable this vulnerable 15-year-old girl could suffer from depression. >> but i think it's very, very important to look out for her, to understand what the warning signs are, especially because there's so much excellent treatment that's available for children. and we really want them all to have happy and productive lives. paris jackson included. >> the tabloids have noticed another troubling sign. wounds on her wrists that could be explained as self-arming, cutting. although no one can say for sure. >> as upsetting and tragic as these types of incidents are, we would like to use them as an opportunity to educate parents,
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teens, teachers, counselors about the signs and symptoms of depression. >> paris jackson has had to ensure trials that most teenagers never have to face. >> conrad robert murray guilty. >> including multiple trials over who is to blame for michael jackson's premature death. first, his doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter for prescribing a lethal dose of propophyl. currently his concert promoter, jackson's mother and three children are plaintiffs in a wrongful death lawsuit worth hundreds of millions of dollars. paris jackson was deposed in the case. she was expected to testify. in fact, at the start of the trial, many expected she would be the star witness. >> clearly, clearly the ones who are going to be most compel, i thi think, are the kids. i would expect they would do well.
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my experience with them is now dated. it's been year s since i had interactions with them. but i was always impressed even at a young age how grounded they were, intelligent, quick, smart. i today, the family jackson no pressure to testify. >> the jackson family and jackson lawyers are putting no pressure on paris regarding this case at all. s this aeg putting this case at paris' backdoor. >> and even the defense attorney offered words of sympathy for the trouble girl now suing his client. >> i think it really would be in everyone's best interest to leave that poor little girl alone. >> reporter: the case is full of lurid details about the demons that haunted michael jackson. until now, katherine jackson has been at the courthouse every day, but jackson's children have not been there once. >> she's an intelligent young lady. she has access to the internet, she knows what's going on. and it's very painful to a child
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who idolized her father. >> the deep, dark dirty stuff is coming out pop. >> reporter: in that context, it's perhaps not surprising she reached out to her birth mother, debbie rowe, or her twitter feed these past few days have been full of song lyrics about heart break and loss. perhaps another cry for help no one heard. >> it's very important for parents and teachers to be on the alert for signs and symptoms and to seek to get these kids the kind of help they really need. >> reporter: among those tweets, barely 24 hours ago, this lyric. yesterday, all my troubles seemed to far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay. a beatles tune she ironically owns as part of michael jackson's estate. >> the little girl who has everything but at the same time has nothing. >> reporter: nothing that she wants the most -- her father. >> exactly. >> reporter: i'm david wright for "nightline" in hollywood. >> our thanks to david wright. and up next, we're going to
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this guy literally has a ph.d. in flavor and many people think he's on to something. >> a mouth watering mound of meat so tasty the restaurant behind it claims they've created the burger of the future. >> fresh, never frozen. when a customer orders, your hamburger is a meatball in a drawer. the flavor is why smashburger is a national burger change sensation. >> the proof is in the pudding. let's see if i did my homework right. if i did this right, it's an incredibly juicy, incredibly tender, incredibly steaky burger
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taste. >> that really is good. >> smashburger. >> reporter: this is the brain child of tom ryan, the same man who brought you stuffed crust pizza, the dollar menu and mcgriddle at mcdonald's. >> savory sausage egg and cheese mcgriddle. >> reporter: now's now taking a stab at america's favorite food. keep in mind, we're talking about a guy with a ph.d. in flavor and fragrance chemistry. >> that sered layer comes off. so we sharten these every day. >> to get up underneath it? >> exactly. we want to make sure the sere is on there and hard and we get it all off with the burger like that. >> that's the secret sauce, if you will, of smashburger, the latest in a long line of fast casual burger places going head to head with giants like in and out burger, five guys the
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landscape is so crowded with burger joints, what made you decide to open up another one? >> there's really a cool new thing happening for food, people want great food fast. we looked about buying a new burger joint and felt no one was really doing it right. >> reporter: the ceo believes in this country where 48 billion burgers are consumed a year, that's three per week per person. americans were still hungry for something new when it came to an all beef patty snuggled between two buns. >> anything that will stand it immediately? >> i think a couple of things that stand out. really, the unique flavor. on the left hand side, we have recipes. whether it's our classic or savory mushroom swiss or localized. our new jersey burger. so every market gets its own burger. >> what began in 2007 as a small restaurant in denver, colorado, has become a smash hit. there are now 208 restaurants in the u.s. alone. they were hailed by "forbes" magazine as the nation's most
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promising company. but smashburger has an appetite for more. their goal is to become the better burger brand. burgers are off all big business, generating $100 billion each year. >> hamburgers have always been wildly commercial and wildly successful from their very inception. that's why there's so many different hamburger restaurants, because they all want in on the action. >> the real reason there's so many hamburger restaurants is because of burger fanatics like josh. >> reporter: are you surprised to -- are ysorry, i'm talking wy mouthful. >> i'm listening with my mouthful. >> reporter: mr. cutlet does his firsthand research, eating, studying and writing esen btially a daily homage to hamburger. >> every few years they say it's going to be all tacos. soon americans want wraps. it never happens. >> he took us to what he
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believes is the best burger in the big apple. >> look at this. you see that surface? >> yes. >> this is the chemical reaction that happens when meat meets heat. >> reporter: who knew there was so much since behind america's food. i shouldn't butt ketchup on this? >> no. it's too good to obscure with strong flavors. >> reporter: in his book "the hamburger -- a history" he traces the hamburger back to its 19th century roots. >> i credit it with being 1916 in wichita, kansas. a guy named walter anderson who was a fry cook. and he has this big novelty item where he has little buns and little burgers that he cooked all alongside each other on an
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iron skillet. >> and in 1991, created white cast castle. >> what began to happen is a lot of the burger chains were absorbed with giant corporations. how can we make it cheaply? and the answer to that was we'll cook them all ahead of time and have them sitting around. >> reporter: he believes we're living in the golden age of burgers. >> people now have the much higher expectations for what a hamburger can be. >> reporter: back at smashburger they are sering, smashing and salting every burger to order for their hundreds of thousands of customers who come in every day. but cooking up a good burger isn'texactly easy. >> i only got half. >> reporter: but the taste -- a smashing success. for "nightline," i'm lindsay davis in hackensack, new jersey.
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soul lottery winner in history. it's tonight's "feed frenzy." can i borrow some money? 84-year-old gloria mckenzie may be hearing that a lot soon. she came forward today as the winner of the the nearly $600 million power ball jack spot. and check this out. she wasn't even supposed to have a ticket. another customer let her cut in line. and whoever that person is, is probably deeply annoyed right now. she chose to take the lump sum payment of about $371 million before taxes. a life changer for her four children, her grandchildren and even great grandchildren. men and women of steel. the gin mess book is filled with all sorts of random world records. today, a group of 566 sears employees donned capes and descended upon chicago setting a
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record for the most people dr s dressed as superman in one place. this is one of 100 publicity stunts surrounding the july 14 release of the superman reboot called "man of steel." the previous record by the way was 437 people. everybody needs a hobby. and tomorrow night, a special edition of "nightline" superheroes. we'll be interviewing the new man of steel henry castle. tonight, the british newspaper "the guardian" is reporting that for the past 41 days, the obama administration has been using the patriot act to secretly track the phone records of millions of verizon customers, whether they're suspected of wrong doing or not. tell us what you think about this. you can weigh in on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us at "nightline" or at danbharris. tune into gma tomorrow morning and as always, we're online at abc news.com. good night.
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