Video recordings of Michael Jackson's older children Paris and Prince have been shown during the wrongful death case brought against the star's concert promoter AEG Live.
The company used clips from the depositions the children gave in March to counter testimony given by the family's personal chef.
In the first clip shown to jurors Paris talks about former Jackson nanny Grace Rwaramba who was sacked two months before her father died.
Under questioning from AEG lawyer Martin Putnam she said of the nanny: "Sometimes, my dad didn't like her, so he tried to, like, keep her away from us, so he'd send her to run errands a lot."
Asked why Ms Rwaramba was not sacked earlier Paris said her father felt sorry for her "because she didn't really have a lot of money..."
Ms Rwaramba is due to give evidence later in the trial.
In court, chef Kai Chase described the home lives of the children during the final months of the singer's life and their ongoing grief after their father's death.
Ms Chase told the jury that early in 2009 the youngsters had played with their "vibrant and hands-on father" and traded jokes at the dinner table.
Michael Jackson in rehearsal for his ill-fated This Is It concerts But by June that year, Ms Chase said Jackson was deteriorating and that she witnessed Prince having to help his father up a staircase to his bedroom. He died on June 25.
In the video, Prince denied he had helped his father upstairs.
Since Jackson's death, Ms Chase told the court that Prince, now 16, had "the weight of the world is on his shoulders".
She said Paris, now 15, seems to be having the hardest time. "Being daddy's little girl, Paris is devastated," she said. "She's devastated and lost.
"She's trying to find herself and find who she is," Ms Chase said. "It's taking a lot of love and understanding to keep her together. She breaks down, she cries, she talks about him."
Paris was recently treated in hospital after an apparent suicide attempt.
And youngest son Blanket, 11, who remains home-schooled, wears a T-shirt with his father's image on it every Friday, she said.
"He never really had a time when it was father-son because he was so tiny," she said.
Michael Jackson's mother Katherine is suing concert promoter AEG Ms Chase, who was again employed as the family chef in July 2012, recounted for jurors her interactions with Jackson, his children and her ongoing work with the singer's mother Katherine and children for jurors hearing Mrs Jackson's negligent hiring case against AEG.
The company denies all wrongdoing.
After weeks of testimony about Jackson's business dealings with AEG, Ms Chase's testimony returned the trial's focus to the family.
Earlier in her testimony, Ms Chase described an April 2009 11th birthday party for Paris that included a private circus.
"Paris hasn't had any birthdays since," Chase said. "She hasn't wanted to celebrate since."
Ms Chase told the jury how she met AEG executives at the centre of the case, including chief executive Randy Phillips and executive Paul Gongaware, when they came to Jackson's home for meetings about the singer's ill-fated This Is It comeback concerts.
One tense meeting in June started with a vase being broken - she didn't know by whom - and with Jackson and his personal physician, Conrad Murray, storming out.
Murray was convicted in 2011 of administering a fatal dose of the anaesthetic propofol to Jackson.
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