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The Grammy winner addresses her private love life and the secret child in her new documentary.
Janet Jackson is ready to speak.
The legendary singer-songwriter is gearing up for the premiere of hertwo-partJanet Jackson.
In 1984, she and James DeBarge eloped in Michigan when they were 18 and 21.
I sit and I say, Were you stupid, were you dumb?
But it wasnt that.
Cause I knew that he needed help.
But I wasnt the help that he needed.
I’m tired of the secrecy, he told his daughter Kristinia after she asked about the rumors.
To be honest with you, I didnt know.
I was under the impression that there was no baby, and I wanted to believe its not true.
Jackson never commented on the reports until theJanet Jackson.doc, where she adamantly denied the rumors.
I could never keep a child away from James.
How could I keep a child from their father?
I could never do that, thats not right.
I needed to just be free from somebody that did drugs and all of that.
I needed a lift.
Rene was funny, we just always had fun together, and he was very, very charming.
They just had a focus and aspirations of something they wanted to accomplish.
She wasnt willing to move to Atlanta, he told T.I.on hisexpediTIouslypodcast.
She was willing to come out here for a couple of weeks.
… That stuff didnt feel like the space where either one of us wanted to be.
Less than three months later, theyannounced their splitafter five years of marriage.
This article was originally published onJan.
