Mark Lester claims he is true father of Michael Jackson's daughter Paris...but why do this through the Press?

There’s a lot of wisdom in the old adage that if you really care for someone you only want the best for them.....so why, if Mark Lester truly believes he might be Paris Jackson’s biological Dad, would his first move be to go to the press?
Surely as her Godfather, he’s supposed to be taking care of her welfare and well-being, and the kindest course of action (if he truly had her interests at heart) would have been to raise the issue quietly and privately with those closest to her who are caring for her.
He seems to be volunteering to undergo a paternity test – but for whose sake? Obviously Paris has the right to know who her true parents are, when she’s old enough and ready to ask. But at the moment, surely she needs to be left alone to grieve the enormous loss of her only constant parent?
And if he should turn out to be the father, what does he propose to do about it? Is he going to break her heart by telling her about it? Is he then prepared to support her financially until she’s 18? Hopefully, he’s not planning to separate her from her siblings and bring her to the UK to live with him? So what possible good can it do for her to have this uncertainty raised at this stage?
You have to wonder about his motives...and indeed about the motives of all those who feel they have to live their lives through the pages of the newspapers, the world-wide web and on television .
It sometimes seems nowadays that everyone feels a need to ‘validate’ their feelings in public. As if things can’t be ‘real’ until they’ve divulged their innermost thoughts and feelings and seen them splashed across the world; as if they don’t fully exist until they’ve participated in this ‘reality’ circus foisted on us by today’s media.
Think how everyone feels obliged nowadays to speak out when they lose a loved one, or after a court case....they all trot out to say their piece about how ‘devastated’ they are and how their lives will never be the same etc. etc. But we all know that...we don’t need to hear it from them...and they’d probably be better off going away quietly, being with their families and supporting each other. But for some reason it’s become the norm now for people to get things off their chests publicly. Maybe it helps – for a second or two – but surely we should be trying to learn that our lives and our feelings can be just as valuable and worthwhile and authentic even when not ‘framed’ by a tv screen.