Paris Jackson said she called off her engagement to Justin Long because it was “a choice that I needed to make to be happy.” The 28-year-old also revealed on August 12 that this was not her first broken engagement, adding a secret earlier betrothal happened while she and her former partner were heavily using drugs.
Call Her Daddy on August 12
“This is also my second engagement that I called off,” Jackson said during her appearance on Call Her Daddy. She added of the earlier relationship, “The first one, I don't know if you could count the first one, [but it] was real to me,” and said “the love was so real for me.”
That earlier ring had been purchased with her money without her knowledge. Jackson said the secrecy sat alongside the drug use, which turns the detail from a private breakup story into something closer to a cautionary timeline: the commitment existed, but the circumstances around it were already unstable.
Justin Long and 2025
Jackson and Justin Long had been linked for roughly three years before the engagement ended in 2025. They announced their engagement in December 2024, then Jackson publicly confirmed the split on July 31, 2025 after photographs showed her crying.
On X, she answered the images with a blunt line: “Those are breakup tears.” She also said, “No, it wasn't that casual,” after joking that calling off the second engagement sounded easy. The sharper point came a few moments later: “I'm the person that needs to be sure,” followed by, “Just because someone is a good person doesn't mean they're my person.”
Paris Jackson's standard
Jackson's language points to a split based less on one public blowup than on compatibility and boundaries. “My non-negotiables are allowed to be non-negotiables,” she said, which is the practical takeaway for anyone trying to read the breakup: she framed the decision as deliberate, not impulsive, and treated uncertainty as a deal-breaker rather than something to negotiate away.
For readers tracking the story, the public record now has a clean timeline — a December 2024 engagement, a July 31, 2025 breakup post, and an August 12 explanation that tied the end of one relationship to a second, earlier engagement shaped by drug use. The unanswered part is the one Jackson did not spend time dressing up: what specific line she drew with Long, once she decided happiness mattered more than keeping the engagement intact.
