Janet Jackson Talks About Michael & His Drugs And James DeBarge & His Drugs
The video below is Janet Jackson on Good Morning America. It is a very good interview because Janet actually opens up and discusses things I have never heard her talk about before. She talks about how the family knew Michael Jackson was on drugs but he wouldn't listen to the family and get help.
"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. 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."
She says she had experience with Michael's situation because of her first marriage to James DeBarge.
"It kinda goes back to my first relationship, something that you have to want. ... it's something they have to want. I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that -- we -- obeyed our parents, really obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why. You just understand that it's no. He was my first love and very much so. And there was a lot going on in our relationship, a lot going on with him, I should say. And -- just being so young and not really -- not really knowing what life is really all about, just beginning to explore life and wanting to -- help him, thinking I could change him, if I only could do this and that, and not realizing that it was something that he had to do and want for himself."