Janet Jackson’s Addresses The Infamous 2004 N*pplegate Incident, Reveals Telling Justin Timberlake Not To Put Out A Statement At That Time
Actress and singer Janet Jackson has made some startling revelations in her lately launched documentary ‘Janet’, which aired on the Lifetime and A&E networks in the US.
The documentary, which had been within the making for 5 years, speaks concerning the many controversies that clouded the singer’s life, reviews ‘Selection’.
Within the documentary, Janet Jackson addresses the notorious 2004 Tremendous Bowl, dubbed by the media as ‘N*pplegate’, the place throughout her mid-performance with Justin Timberlake of ‘Rock Your Physique’, part of Jackson’s high got here off.
Submit the halftime present at Tremendous Bowl XXXVIII, which was broadcast reside on February 1, 2004, on the CBS tv community, Janet Jackson was blacklisted from the trade underneath the course of Les Moonves, then-CEO of CBS Company.This led to her lowered radio airplay, televised promotion and gross sales figures. Jackson was publicly shamed and her profession took successful.
Jackson, in accordance with ‘Selection’, revealed within the documentary that she instructed Timberlake to not put out an announcement concerning the incident on the time.
Within the documentary, whereas speaking to her brother Randy, Janet Jackson stated, “We talked as soon as. And he stated, ‘I don’t know if I ought to come out and make an announcement.’… And I stated, ‘Pay attention… I don’t need any drama for you. They’re aiming all of this at me.’ So I stated, ‘If I had been you, I wouldn’t say something’.”
Randy additionally revealed how the glam rock icon David Bowie as soon as supplied substance abuse to him and Michael Jackson, he stated, “Michael and I are sitting in one of many different rooms away from the occasion. So Bowie walks in and… he supplied us a few of what he was doing to get excessive… We simply checked out one another. We had been like, ‘No.’ We didn’t know what it was, but it surely was like, ‘Nah, no thanks’.”
The documentary additionally sees a tearful Janet Jackson additionally breaking the silence on the rumours of her secret baby, “Again within the day, they had been saying that I had a toddler and I saved it secret. After I was doing ‘Fame’, a variety of the children thought I used to be pregnant as a result of I had gained weight and I used to be taking contraception drugs… so, that hearsay began going round.”
She additionally stated how the s*xual abuse allegations towards her brother Michael additionally affected her. When Coca-Cola heard concerning the first s*xual abuse allegations towards Michael by a 13-year-old boy, they determined to half methods with Janet, who was about to work with them.
Janet stated, “When that got here out, Coca-Cola stated, ‘No, thanks’.” Although Janet says she knew her brother “would by no means do one thing like that”, she nonetheless felt “responsible by affiliation.”
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