Janet Jackson opened up about her relationship with her brother Michael, the late King of Pop, in the documentary “Janet” on American channels A&E and Lifetime.
In a documentary where she retraces the life of her brother Michael Jackson, and which will be broadcast from January 28, 2022 in the United States, Janet Jackson opened up about her relationship with her big brother who died in 2009. According to the “New York Post “, the singer evokes their intimacy with sincerity and summons her memories, the good ones as well as the bad ones.
According to Janet Jackson, her relationship with the King of Pop was sometimes marked by verbal abuse and her brother would have used to give her hurtful nicknames to tease her: “There were times when Mike used to teasing and calling me names. Pig, horse, bitch, or pig, cow,” she cited as examples, adding that “he laughed about it, and I laughed too, but then it was buried somewhere, so deep down that it was. hurt. When someone tells you that you are too fat, it affects you”. The opportunity for the 55-year-old star to discuss her weight problems, which would have started when she played the role of Penny in the series “Good Times” in the 1970s. It was the start of the weight issues and the way I looked at myself,” she said.
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“I wanted to support him as much as possible”
Janet Jackson then confided in the celebrity of her brother, who made the name Jackson a myth. Always affiliated with this name, even during the scandals and legal troubles that affected Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson expressed her frustration. “It was frustrating for me,” she said before adding, “We have our own separate lives and even though he’s my brother, it has nothing to do with me.” “But I wanted to be there for him, to support him as much as possible.”
When the two siblings decided to collaborate on the song “Scream” in the 1990s, it was a new frustration for Janet Jackson which revealed darker aspects of their relationship: “It was his song and I was there to support him”. “Michael was shooting at night, I was shooting during the day. His record company was blocking his set so I couldn’t see what was going on. They didn’t want me on set. I felt like they were trying to make the competition between the two of us very difficult.” “It really hurt me because I felt like I was there to fight the fight with him,” she added. “I wanted it to feel like the good old days between him and me, and it didn’t. The good old days were long gone.”
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