Janet Jackson is shooting down rumors that she had a baby with her ex-husband James DeBarge and kept it a secret in the 1980s.In her upcoming two-night documentary, which begins Friday night on Lifetime and A&E, the 55-year-old pop singer vehemently denies that she ever had a child from her first marriage.Instead, she blames the rumors of a secret child on vicious chit-chat over her weight gain on the set of NBC's fame, which she attributes to starting a new birth control regimen.
No love child: Janet Jackson, 55, denied ever having a secret child with her ex-husband James DeBarge in the 1980s in her upcoming Lifetime and A&E documentary; seen with DeBarge in 1985 in Los Angeles'I could never keep a child away from James.
How could I keep a child from their father? I could never do that. That’s not right,' Jackson says in an interview for the documentary.According to her, rumors began spreading when she joined the NBC series Fame for its fourth season. 'A lot of the kids thought I was pregnant, ’cause I had gained weight and I had started taking birth control pills,' said the singer, who appeared on a single season as the high school studentCleo Hewitt.'And back then, you could pick up weight taking them, and that’s what happened to me, so that rumor started going around,' she added.
Chatter: 'A lot of the kids thought I was pregnant, ’cause I had gained weight and I had started taking birth control pills,' Jackson said of her stint on the fourth season of NBC's Fame; seen in 2019 in NYCDebbie Allen, who played a lead faculty member on the series set in a performing arts high school in New York City, also noticed the rumors spreading on set.'These were rumors that were just flying around, honey, like hash in a diner,'.
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