Janet Jackson has shared insights into her family lineage, revealing her connections to three additional celebrities beyond her well-known immediate relatives.
“[Stevie Wonder is] our cousin,” Janet, 58, told host Scott Mills on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show on Tuesday, August 13. “Not a lot of people know that. He’s our cousin on my mother’s side. So is Tracy Chapman. So is Samuel Jackson.”
Janet was the youngest daughter of Katherine Jackson and the late Joe Jackson. The couple had two other daughters, Maureen, aged 74, and La Toya, aged 68, along with sons Sigmund, 73, Toriano, 70, Jermaine, 69, Marlon, 67, Randy, 62, and the late Michael Jackson. Additionally, Katherine, who is now 94, and Joe welcomed a son named Brandon in 1957, but he tragically passed away just a day after his birth.
In the documentary Janet Jackson, which premiered on Lifetime in January 2022, Janet shared insights into her family life.
The singer of “That’s The Way Love Goes” revealed that she had a close relationship with her brothers Michael and Randy during her childhood, but this dynamic shifted following Michael’s release of Thriller in 1982.
“For the first time in my life, that’s when I felt it was different between the two of us. That a shift was happening,” she explained in the documentary. “He would always come in my bedroom, neither one of us said a word to each other.
“And then he got up and left. That’s a time where Mike and I started kind of going our separate ways, we weren’t as close. And it may have been just because he was so massive, so huge.”
“At first it just didn’t seem true, it didn’t seem real,” she shared in the 2022 documentary. “I couldn’t believe it. It took a while for me to accept. It makes you think about life.”
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