Janet Jackson is opening up about how she’s coping with grief and how their family wasn’t naive about her brother Michael Jackson’s drug addiction.
In an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Janet Jackson sat down to talk about her brother death, their family, her personal life and how she’s dealing with the loss of her brother.
Janet admitted that she and the other Jacksons reached out to Michael to try to help him get through with the addiction. She said, “I did, Of course, that’s what you do. Those are the things that you do when you love someone. You can’t just let them continue on that way. And we did a few times. We weren’t very successful.”
Janet added that Michael understood that the family’s motives for the interventions were out of love. She explained, “How do I say this? Understanding. I guess that will be the best way to — understood that it was out of love, because of caring. But when it’s something like that, people can tend to be in denial.”
When asked if her brother was in denial about his addiction, she replied, “Possibly.” She added, “I wish he could answer this question for you and not me. I felt that he was in denial. You can’t make ‘em drink the water. … I’m a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer — but it’s, it’s something that you can’t do for them. Something they have to do for themselves.”
Janet also believes that Dr. Conrad Murray was responsible for Michael’s death. She told Roberts, “He was the one that was administering, I think he is responsible.”
Janet said that she dealt with grief by focusing on work. After five months since Michael’s death, Janet said, she “needed to get back to work.” She explained, “It helped me get through it, I was able to put a lot of my focus someplace else.”
However, even if she’s dealing with her brother’s death, Janet still finds everything related to the concert movie “This is It” too hard to bear. She said, “I haven’t seen [the film]. I definitely won’t, not right now. I don’t know if I will ever see it…It’s hard when I see a poster, you know, the “This Is It” posters that are around the city. That’s tough. I’ve seen the commercial. They advertise — the trailers — on TV. That was tough.”
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