Janet Jackson is opening up about the scrutiny around having her last name and the media treatment that resulted in a swirl of rumors across her career
Those initial segments highlighting Janet’s early experiences with racism as the family moved into the L.A.
“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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