In the first half of the two-night event airing on Jan. 28, the singer explores what was behind her removing her father as manager, growing apart from her brother and how she forged her own career with 'Control' and 'Rhythm Nation.'
Those initial segments highlighting Janet’s early experiences with racism as the family moved into the L.A. suburbs, working in the not-so-kid-friendly Vegas with her brothers, launching her first tour, and the tensions between the singer and producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis while working on her socially conscious third album,But what the doc’s first half repeatedly addresses is the longstanding discussion around how Janet’s father, Joe, treated his children as their parent and their manager.
“At that time, my father was in charge of my life, my career and he was my manager. There were things I wanted to do, a direction that I wanted to go in, that I — like I said, it’s hard to say no to my father,” Jackson said. “So in order to do things the way I wanted to do, I guess he would have to … I guess he would have to be out of the picture.”
“Neither one of us said a word to each other,” Janet recalled. “That’s a time when [Michael] and I started going our separate ways. We weren’t as close.”
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