On Monday April 11, the Canal + Docs channel will broadcast the first two episodes unpublished in France of the documentary Janet Jackson., who returns with the singer to key moments in her life and career. And, in front of the cameras, she responds for the first time to the rumors that said she was a secret mom at the age of 18 in the 80s.
It is a documentary event that will be broadcast, from April 11, the Canal + Docs channel: Janet Jackson., shot in 2017, in which the singer herself agreed to look back on her life and career. The opportunity for her to confide, among other things, in her destructive love affair with the artist James DeBarge, which will last less than a year. A union marked by the drug addiction of the companion of Janet Jackson, which will result in the annulment of the marriage in 1985.
Janet Jackson: according to rumors, one of her nieces was in fact her daughter Renee
The one who had made her comeback to Billboard Awards in 2018 is then at the heart, from the mid-80s, of rumors about a supposed secret pregnancy, the fruit of her marriage to James DeBarge. At the time of their romance, the young singer and actress, who has a connection with the parents of Jamel Debbouze, was just of age. “The media said I secretly had a baby“, she recalls in the second episode of the doc. Of a little girl named Renee, who would have been raised by the sister of Janet Jackson, Rebbie Jackson. But that’s not all. “They started off saying my niece Brandi was my daughter, that I asked Jackie [un de ses frères, ndlr] to raise it. Then, since Stevana, Randy’s daughter [un autre de ses frères, ndlr], looks a lot like me, they said it was her, my daughter!“.
Janet Jackson : “A lot of people thought I was pregnant because I had gained weight.“
Joe Jackson’s daughter continues: “When I was spinning Fame, a lot of people thought I was pregnant because I had gained weight. I had started taking the pill and at the time it was causing weight gain. So the rumor started circulating“. Before striking: “I don’t like it when reporters try to trick you. I don’t like the weight of all this negativity around me. I could never deprive James of a child. How could I deprive a child of its father? I could never do this, it’s wrong“. Janet Jackson became a mother for the first time at the age of 50, of a little boy named symbolically.
Discover the first two episodes of the series Janet Jackson. Monday, April 11 from 8:55 p.m. on Canal + Docs and on MyCanal.