The primary episode of the two-night, four-part JANET doc premieres tonight on A&E, and Lifetime, and Janet Jackson stans are in a tizzy.
Supply: A&E / lifetime
As beforehand reported the documentary, which is greater than “5 years within the making” options “by no means earlier than seen footage” and was filmed across the time of the demise of her father, Joe Jackson, in June 2018. It can additionally cowl Janet’s return to the stage following a break from music, the demise of her iconic brother, and her motherhood journey.
We already know that Janet will contact on the Tremendous Bowl scandal and her loving relationship with Michael that included childhood taunting, however what else are you able to anticipate to see?
See some highlights beneath:
- Janet addresses rumors she had a secret child within the ‘80s
“Again within the day they have been saying that I had a baby and I saved it a secret,” mentioned Janet in a teaser for the doc detailing her 1984 marriage to James DeBarge.
“I might by no means hold a baby away from James,” she mentioned. “How might I hold a baby from their father? I might by no means try this, it’s not proper.”
The 2 have been married for just one yr, Janet alleged their cut up was brought on by DeBarge’s frequent drug use.
Within the doc, she additionally says that weight acquire brought on by contraception is what sparked being pregnant rumors.
“Loads of the children thought I used to be pregnant ‘trigger I had gained weight and I had began taking contraception tablets,” Jackson defined whereas referencing her time on Fame. “And again then, you could possibly choose up weight taking them, and that’s what occurred to me.”
- Janet dishes on her father Joe Jackson
Jackson described her father as a “good-hearted man [who] actually protected us.”
“He advised us what he wished you to do, and you probably did it,” she mentioned. “My dad and mom disciplined all of us. And that’s how we as a folks, we raised our children. However you flip round and also you give them love to point out them, ‘I really like you, I’m right here for you.’ Self-discipline with out love is tyranny, and tyrants they weren’t. They simply beloved us and wished us to be the perfect that we might probably be. Clearly, it labored.”
- After Splitting From DeBarge She Thought Her Second Hubby René Elizondo Jr. Was “The One”
“I wanted to only be freed from being with any individual that did medicine and all of that,” mentioned Janet. “I wanted a carry. René was humorous, simply all the time had enjoyable collectively. He was very, very charming.”
She additionally described his romantic proposal.
“We have been out on the seaside, it was raining like loopy, and that’s when he requested me to marry him,” she recalled. “James by no means proposed to me. He by no means gave me a hoop or something like that, so it was completely different. I wished it to be it. However I believed that each time.”
The primary a part of JANET is ready to premiere TONIGHT, January 28 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime and A&E.
Will YOU be watching?
