Paris Jackson
"I think it should be restored to how it used to be, so that the children who couldn't have a childhood could have fun there.
"That was his goal - like kids in a hospital. They should restore all the rides and everything. As soon as I'm an adult - I'm on it. Count on it."
The 15-year-old also spoke fondly of her father and his "protective" nature, defending his decision to make his children wear masks in public.
She explained: "He wanted the best for us. He always made sure we were healthy. He made sure we stuck to school. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us.
"He was very protective. The masks were his idea. He didn't want anyone to see what we looked like. That way we could have what he didn't, which was a normal childhood."
Paris said she is hoping to turn Neverland Ranch into a haven for sick children when she's older.
She and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, now 16 and 11, spent part of their youth at the California estate before their father died in 2009.
Neverland has been abandoned since 2005 and is now owned by a private equity firm.
Paris said she made an emotional pilgrimage to Neverland two years ago and was saddened to see its Ferris wheel had been removed.
"I cried and cried. It's beautiful there. It still has good energy."
Jackson named the 3,000 acre ranch after the fantasy island Neverland in the children's book "Peter Pan."
Paris, now 15, also plans to pay tribute to her father by having the words of a loving note he wrote her tattooed on her wrist when she is old enough.
And until recently she kept a ‘shrine’ to him on the wall of her bedroom in the sprawling home where she now lives with her brothers Prince, 16, and Blanket, 11, in the hills above Los Angeles.
The teenager is funded by the Michael Jackson Family Trust which pays out on landmark birthdays and settles family expenses.
It also pays for 15 full-time staff, including bodyguards, a personal chef, two nannies, maids, maintenance men and gardeners at the $26,000-a-month home. Neighbours in the heavily protected, paparazzi proof complex include Justin Bieber and Britney Spears.
Despite her wealth and family name, Paris has started attending an ordinary school, she says: ‘I want to have a normal high-school experience.'
She has been a cheerleader and played women’s football, and has also dabbled in photography.
She has inherited her father’s passion for music and revealed that he used to give her dance lessons. But she has no plans to follow him into show business.
Her ambition is to be a heart surgeon.
'I want to help people, that’s its,' she said.
Paris spoke to Event as the Jackson family prepares to bring a staggering $40 billion wrongful death civil lawsuit against AEG, the promoter of the Thriller star's ill-fated ‘This Is It’ concerts in London’s O2 arena.
In court documents Katherine Jackson accuses AEG of ‘putting its desire for massive profits from the tour over the health and safety of Michael Jackson’.
She and her elder brother are expected to take the stand to reveal further details of their father's private life when the case comes to court.
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