Michael Jackson`s mother `unmasked` her grandchildren after his death

Until he passed away two years ago, the King of Pop made his three children hide their faces behind masks whenever they were out in public.

But, according to his sister La Toya, that’s the first thing his mother Katherine Jackson stopped when the children went to live with her.

“Michael put masks on them to protect them and to keep them safe from anyone who wanted to hurt him,” La Toya says in an interview with US website, The Daily Beast.

“He’s gone now. The first thing my mother did was say to them, ‘Today we’re unmasking you. Today the masks come off’.”

The 55-year-old makes her revelations as she promotes her new memoir, Starting Over.

She also says that Jackson’s three children – Prince, 14, Paris, 13 and Blanket, nine – are now “doing so well”.

La Toya speaks openly in the book about her relationship with her younger brother, who died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009.