Robin Roberts’ tell-all interview with Janet Jackson was a ratings winner for ABC on Wednesday night. The interview for In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts earning the second highest ratings in the 10 p.m. time slot, falling just behind CSI: New York with over 6.7 million viewers.
In case you missed it, here is a commercial-free look at Janet Jackson in-depth ABC Primetime interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts. Watch as the pop legend talks about her now-defunct romance with superproducer Jermaine Dupri, her lifelong struggle with weight, and the death of her beloved brother Michael.
Janet Jackson says her entire family recognized her brother Michael had a drug problem, and tried to help, but she insists the King of Pop wasn’t ready to acknowledge he had a problem.
“You can’t make ‘em drink the water,” Jackson tells ABC News in an interview airing Wednesday.
“Of course (we intervened). That’s what you do. Those are the things that you do when you love someone, you can’t just let them continue on in that way and we did (try an intervention)… a few times… we weren’t very successful.” She adds, “(He) understood that it was (out of) love, because of caring, but when it’s something like that (drug addiction), people can tend to be in denial.”
Michael Jackson passed away June 25 after a powerful overdose of the prescription drug anesthetic Propofol.
The estate for the late Michael Jackson is at war with the pop legend’s baby sister, singer Janet Jackson, over one of the songs on her newly-released Greatest Hits album, Number Ones.
According to Entertainment Tonight insiders: The song in question is called “Make Me” and features a lyric that reads, “Don’t stop till you get it up.” The source has told ET that Michael’s estate is questioning Janet’s right to use the lyric because of its similarity to his song “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” featured on Michael’s album Off the Wall.
Five months after the death of her brother Michael Jackson, pop legend in her own right Janet Jackson is speaking out for the first time about the day Michael died to why she thinks Dr. Conrad Murray is responsible for the King of Pop’s death in a new interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts.
A flash mob took over The Grove in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon, paying tribute to R&B’s own Janet Jackson by replicating some of the singing legend’s most signature moves to a medley of her hits.
Check out Miss Jackson peering down on the dancers from a balcony above the crowd! Janet is set to open The 2009 American Music Awards (AMAs) in Hollywood next Sunday, Nov. 22. The hot hitmaker will perform a medley to kick off the ceremony, which sees her late brother Michael Jackson nominated in five categories.
November 12th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: 2009 American Music Awards, Janet Jackson, Today's New Music
Janet Jackson will lead off this year’s American Music Awards with a “special opening performance,” following her tribute to brother Michael at the MTV Video Music Awards last August. Michael Jackson received five posthumous nominations for the upcoming ABC award show.
“We’re thrilled about having Janet Jackson open this year’s show,” American Music Awards producer Larry Klein said in a release. “She is an incredibly dynamic performer, and I think the audience will be excited to see what she has in store.”
The 2009 American Music Awards airs live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles Nov. 22 @ 8:00 PM EST on ABC.
In her first TV interview since the death of Michael Jackson, the icon’s younger sister Janet will open up to ABC’s Robin Roberts.
Move over, witches of Eastwick! We hear a Janet Jackson TV special will replace the ABC series on Nov. 18.
The pop/R&B icon will debut her second greatest hits compilation, The Essential Janet Jackson, later this month.
This Is It for La Toya and Janet…..
The youngest member of The Jackson 9 has had it up to here with her eccentric big sister’s loose lips when it comes to the passing of their late brother Michael, Jackson Family snoops snitch. Ever since the King of Pop took his final bow last June 25, La Toya has promptly alerted the press of her every thought bubble — sending “Ms. Jackson If Ya Nasty” into full Bitch Mode. Read the rest of this entry »
