a clip from the interview shared on X Tuesday, Mills, 51, asked Janet, “Now someone told me this earlier, are you related to Stevie?”“He’s our cousin,” Janet nonchalantly replied.“Not a lot of people know that,” she added. “He’s our cousin on my mother’s side.
So is Tracy Chapman.” A shocked Mills asked Janet if they could “go through” her family tree, prompting the Grammy Award winner to reveal that Samuel, 75, is also her cousin.“So Stevie is what to you?” Mills asked.
Janet reiterated that Wonder, 74, and Chapman, 60, are her cousins.When asked again about her relation to Samuel, Janet said, “He would be my cousin too, I mean he’s not my brother.”Janet is the youngest sibling of the famous Jackson family.
She’s the sister of Rebbie Jackson, 74, Jackie Jackson, 73, Tito Jackson, 70, Jermaine Jackson, 69, La Toya Jackson, 68, Marlon Jackson, 67, Michael Jackson (who died in 2009) and Randy Jackson, 62.
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