Debbie Rowe, the former dermatology receptionist who shocked the world when she married Michael Jackson in 1996, has confessed that the late pop icon was not the biological father of her 12-year-old son Prince Michael and Paris Katherine, 11.

“It was a place in both of our lives when we were both very lonely. We both loved animals. That’s how we got talking.”

Debbie says she agreed to have Michael’s children after he told her that his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, had refused to have any with him.

“Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, ‘I will have your babies,’” Debbie says in a new interview with Britain’s News of the World.

“I offered him my womb – it was a gift. It was something I did to keep him happy….I was just the vessel. It wasn’t Michael’s sperm,” she says. “I went to the ‘office’, which is what we called the medical clinic. They impregnated me.”

“I got paid for it, and I’ve moved on. I know I will never see my children again.”

Debbie says she never had sex with her then-husband, who she accuses of callously kicking her to the curb after a rough delivery with Paris left her unable to bare any more children.

“He never wanted to live with me. That’s why he bought me a house. There was always ‘my house’ and ‘his house’, never ‘our house.’”

“He wanted to pretend that we were a family. But we never lived together as a couple. We never had sex. He was on the road, doing his thing,” Debbie explains.

“The delivery was so hard. My insides were all torn up and I was barren. When he knew I couldn’t have any more babies he didn’t want anything to do with me.”