In Sunday's issue of Parade magazine, Janet
Jackson graces the cover and gets very candid in the cover story. The
singer, whose new album "Discipline" is due Feb. 26, talks about her
marriages, men cheating on her, her faith and the out of wedlock child
her father had, amongst other things.
Here are some excerpts from the interview:
Janet on love:
• “I was always reaching out
for love. I kept searching for it, seeking it. Infatuation, lust—that
stuff only lasts so long. You can get that from anybody. But true love
is supposed to be forever. Jackson says she has found that love with
record producer and hip-hop artist Jermaine Dupri, 35. They have known
each other for six years now and may already be married, although that
is a question Janet will not address beyond admitting that they are a
couple and she is crazy about him. “This time, I wasn’t going to be the
first to reach out,” she says. “It was Jermaine who touched me first.
Love came to me. He’s such a wonderful, sweet, very loving guy that I
said to myself, ‘I’m not going to fall head over heels for this
person.’ ”
On Janet’s father’s out-of-wedlock child and how it has affected her:
• Janet’s father had an out-of-wedlock child
with a fan of the Jackson 5. Five years later, he had another affair
with an employee of his sons’ record label, Motown. His infidelities
nearly ended his marriage and deeply affected Janet. “Besides my
mother’s beauty and her smarts, what I always wanted was her strength,”
says Janet, who is very close with her mother, Katherine, 77. “It’s a
very cold world, and to have gone through what she has had to
experience, from having polio as a child to those things with my
brother Michael, and then for my father to have had another child!”
Janet says angrily. “I’ve been cheated on a lot. I know what that feels
like and how that hurts the heart. But, I mean, to give us a
half-sister. I can’t even fathom what that’s like for Mother. For her
to stay with my father all these years and never abandon her kids,
that’s true love.”
On her two previous marriages:
• Janet was married twice and
kept both marriages a secret until they ended. “I wanted to keep
something for myself and not have it be public,” Janet says. “But after
two divorces, I thought I was jinxed. Maybe marriage isn’t for me?
Maybe it’s my fault it never works. I was always faithful. I always
tried to give of myself. I was very loyal. But maybe I’m the problem.
I’m to blame.” She continues, “It was awful, and I was so tired of
being hurt. When it was over, I put shields up to protect myself from
being hurt again. I didn’t want to go there anymore.” SOURCE OF THIS STORY
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