The “REAL” Joe Jackson Exclusive Interview
BREAKING NEWS: Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson, sits down with TV One for a revealing and heartbreaking interview where he breaks the silence and reveals a Jackson family secret that fans have been hungry for. Joe also opens up emotionally about Michael’s death and what he sees as the legacy of the Jackson name.
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it is what it is….let MJ rest in peace already…i love u MJ
Wow! Joe shows some real emotion!!! This is a first.
Thanks for honoring King Michael this week. Too bad we couldn’t show all this love when Michael was here.
once again the cameras love joe jackson.
GEEEEESSHH! leave the man alone, let him rest.in.peace whatever he did while he was alive you can’t undo it or turn back the hands of time! he’s trouble-free now. andn besides his REAL fans can careless; whatever the media says his fan base will remain the same. –death brings prospective.
The death of MJ has been like one big soap opera. I don’t know if I would consider Joe Jackson a reliable source. Joe and Latoya like the cameras to much. I am also skeptical that the boy is MJ’s son. I read somewhere that he said MJ wasn’t his father and now Joe is saying that MJ is the father.
I’m sure Mr.Jackson is heart broken about his death what father wouldn’t be, but I just trust the man. I feel he will say whatever he needs to, to stay in the limelight and get attention. The young man himself is saying that MJ wasn’t his son. Get a DNA test so all of this speculation can be put to rest and let MJ rest in peace now. He couldn’t get the rest he wanted or needed in life and needed to result to a deadly drug to give him that rest. MJ soul was tired, he had surpassed just being physically or emotionally tired, his soul needed rest and I wish the media and all those who are speaking out now, let him rest in peace!
they’ve always been able to keep their family secrets……who knows? IT’S FAMILY BUSINESS….leav’em B!
The ‘real ‘Joe Jackson? Joe Jackson confirms? If he knew Michael had a son (with all this Jackson talent), why keep it a secret? Omer should have superstar status to rival his father’s with Joe Jackson as his grandpa. Most importantly, why would the young man deny it?
‘If you were in Michael’s life, would he still be alive?’ What kind of question? Why was he out of it in the first place? Why he is not in the will? Hello? TV One, what’s going on? Are you offering the ‘real’ Joe Jackson or fermenting more gossip and rumor?
It is evident that Mr. Jackson’s grief is genuine, and I feel for him and the family. But despite an attempt to prove otherwise, Joe Jackson still comes off as almost completely self-absorbed. “I could have saved Michael. I didn’t want to see him like that. The legacy of the Jacksons is the Jackson name.” Not his sons’ talent or Michael’s philanthropy. This is sad. I’m with Caramel. Let’s honor Michael’s legacy, not distort it with all this media ‘spin’. Allow the man the peace he deserves.
Peace!
Correction: ‘fomenting’ not ‘fermenting’, althought not really a bad choice for this situation.
Peace!
No matter what we may feel about Mr. Joe Jackson, the fact still remains the same people can change.We need to stop being so critical of this man.If he was trying to do right we would not see it for looking at his past.
That is not Michael’s son. we all wish and hope, but if you look at Michael’s pre-surgery features it says so.
If Michael new it was his son. How come he didn’t leave the boy in his will? I mean I don’t think Michael would have left him out of it.
I think they need to do a DNA testing, but I read also where the young man said Michael wasn’t his dad.
Joe Jackson is really missing His Son and he really is traumitized, to believe that this Kid is actually Micheals biological Son. He would say anything at this point to try to bring His Baby Boy Micheal back even if its an imposture.
As much as I hate to say this,but it looks as if Joe is tranquilized in every interview or maybe alzhemizers is kicking in. He seems to be in a lot of pain.
I don’t believe he would ever keep a child secret.Think people think he adored kids it wouldn’t make sense for him to deny having a Son.I can’t believe that some people are even entertaining the notion.Joe Jackson is well a media whore
I agree with Veronica. All MJ fans please help nominate Michael for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize by signing a petition. You can go to google and type in Nomination 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. No one deserves this award more than Michael, so plz let’s do this for him. Last, does anyone happen to know if Michael disliked black women. Please don’t bash me, but black women are naturally gorgeous, exotic and sexy. Every pic I seen him with a woman he dated was a white woman. What’s up with that? It kind of hurt my feelings. I think MJ really missed out if he didn’t like us. We liked him – A LOT!!!
I heard Michael didn’t meet him until the mid 90′s and this kid asked for DNA test now he is denying it? If MJ knew for sure about this kid i truly believe he would have been in MUs will. I believe Prince,Paris and “Blanket” look alot like Michael (when he was younger).
Nova, I understand the sentiment. When I was a little girl, I adored Michael Jackson. So, as a teenager, when I heard about him being linked to Tatum O’Neal, then Brooke Shields, it was hurtful. Then, by the 80′s, I was angered by the rhinoplasty surgeries and ever-lightening skin. Yeah, I later came to believe he had vitiligo, but you can’t convince me that he wasn’t also bleaching his skin. I never stopped thinking that he was an awesome talent, but I wasn’t liking him as a person. In the 90s, the anger dropped to disappointment because he’d developed into someone who’d become so unrecognizable from the boy I admired as a child, except when someone flicked on the ‘dance switch’. Later, I just felt sadness for him. As I learned more about him, how he’d been ridiculed about his nose by someone who was supposed to build him up, I began to understand what all of that was about. I think his past was so painful for him, that he tried to erase anything that reminded him of it, including his own image in the mirror. I forgive him.
Rance:I like what you said. It could very well be true that his past was so painful that he wanted to erase everything that reminded him of it.Including his self.I might use that in a sermon one day.I hope you don’t mind?(smile)
I HAVE ALSO BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE STORY OF WHY WE AS A BLACK SCOCIETY WHOOP OUR CHILDREN, IT MAKES SCENSE TO ME, IT WAS HANDED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION STEMING FROM SLAVERY, THAT BECAME A WAY OF LIFE, AND IT SEEMED TO WORK OKAY UNTIL THIS NEW TREND OVERTIME INSISTING THAT IT IS WRONG AFTER HAVING THE HELL BEAT OUT OF US TO KEEP US IN LINE WENT ON FOR SO LONG.
I AM NOT A PSYCHIATRIST, BUT LIVING TO THE AGE OF 42 AND SEEING THE DIFFERENCE FROM WHEN I WAS A CHILD SOME OF OUR CHILDREN OF TODAY ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL, DON’T QUOTE ME WRONG, I AM NOT SAYING BEAT THE CHILD, BUT A LITTLE ASS WHIPPING WOULD SEND YOU ON THE PATH OF “I WON’T PULL THAT AGAIN, TO GET ANOTHER ASS WHOOPING.
MR. JOE JACKSON KNOW’S HE WHOOP THEM, MOST BLACK PEOPLE OUR AGE GOT OUR ASS WHOOPED, TO US IT WAS NOT A CRIME, AND IT HELPED ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN MIND THEIR PARENTS. BUT IN THE MAJORITY OF SITUATIONS,(NOT CHILD ABUSE)IT WAS DONE OUT OF LOVE, YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF CONTROL OR THEY WILL RUN OVER YOU AND ABUSE YOU AS A LOT OF KIDS DO TODAY.
Michael dated the girl in The Way You Make Me Feel video and also the African nanny that cared for his children. But you can’t hate on Mike because he dated white girls. His brothers did the same and so did Quincy Jones and Barry Gordy. Two of his idols.
If Joe Jackson had a good and strong relationship with Micheal, he would be alive today.I firmly believe that. Based on all the stories that have been told so far, all the people who were in Micheal’s inner circle were employed by him. He could fire them when he didn’t agree with what they were telling him. Had Joe not been such a hard man at the beginning of his sons’ career and had he cultivated a rich relationship with Micheal as he became a superstar, he wouldn’t have descended down a lonely road.Remember Tiger Woods and his dad, Britney Spears and her dad? When you are on top of your game it really helps when you deal with people who have been there with you all along, people who you trust and look up to who allow you to be you but at the same time will tell you when things are starting to get crooked. MJ wanted Berry Gordy to be his dad (that is a line in the Jackson’s family movie). MJ has always in one form or another described his relationship with his father as difficult. There are several stories from MJ insiders who about how MJ avoided his dad a lot, one reason being he was always coming up with money deals that he wanted MJ to sponsor.Hence he was cut out of his will; his son didn’t trust him with his finances. Being the patriach, he should have been the one in charge of the finances at this point. Think about it, growing up MJ could have used a stong male role model in his life, not one he feared or with whom he couldn’t talk. ‘It is hard for me to understand my dad sometimes…, my mother is perfect but my dad…,’MJ quipped on Oprah. Therein lies the disconnect.Yes Joe Jackson was and it seems to me has always been self absorbed; that is why he was talking about his record company on the red carpet 2 days after the untimely death of his son. At a time when his son needed him the most as he became more and more addicted to drugs to treat his perceived psychological inadequacies, the strong firm father- son relationship from which Joe could have drawn on to reach his son was non-existent. It was almost too late.
Joe continues to claim he didn’t ‘beat’ his son, he only spanked him. As a parent I will say that the way the child perceives discipline also matters. If it made such a lasting impression on MJ for him to continue to talk about it even in his adult years, then Joe should have talked to his son one on one and made real and true peace with his son (or continued to make the effort until it clicked) instead of continuing to say that MJ was complaining (belittling!). Look at it this way, it was because of his lack of a childhood (as MJ saw it) that led to his unusual relationship with children that later almost destroyed him(in the form of the accusation in 1993 then later the trial). Joe was a task master alright, rehaearsing the boys 2 to 3 hours a day everyday including sunday with whuppings too if they didn’t perform well.Even katheriine Jackson complained about the whuppings. I mean come on! If your child later in adult life tells you that that was detrimental, talk to him and watch your relationship with your son blossom.
I also strongly believe that even if MJ hadn’t been discovered and trained by his dad early in life he STILL would have found his way to a music studio and YES he would have been wildly succesful, although it probably would have happenned a little later in life.He was just that talented! That would have been even better for him because he would have come to music on his terms, he would have had a normal life for some time prior to that and all the tabloid fodder about him -because of his eccentrities- would have been far less because there would have been less for them to talk about.
As we all know, all the tabloid talk -although he tried hard to ignore them began to get to him. The speech that he gave at the grammys after being presented with the legend award by Janet in 1993 is very telling.
Sometimes in life, God blesses us parents with an immensely gifted child. I have one on my hands right now. It is up to us as parents to help our child cultivate it, nuture it while protecting our child so that he/she can display their talent for the world to enjoy and also see to it that the world does not destroy our child in the process. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT CHILD IS YOUR BABY AND IF THE WORLD DESTROYS HIM/HER YOU THE PARENT become heartbroken and are left to pick up the pieces; as has just happenned with MJ and his family. I know it must hurt them to hear the whole world talk about his addiction and the other negatives in MJs life. Never mind that everybody has some negatives of their own.
I pray for healing for the entire family and someday peace.
Say what you will about Joe Jackson, but on thing you won’t be able to say is that he was a “dead beat”, no good father! He stayed with Mrs. Jackson to ensure the rearing of 9..get that..9 children! Some of us didn’t have a father rear us, and it was only 2 or 3. He did what HE knew, and now he has some of the most famous children out there, and they are a close knit family. How many of us can say we have that. I do believe that if the family would’ve be allowed to be more involved with Michael, he may have been ok.
Proof Omer IS MJ’s son
This may surprise some of you but this is Michael’s son. Here’s an Pre Plastic surgery picture of Michael where you can see Omer has MJ’s eyes, mouth, lips, and bone structure. See for yourself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/numty/mjomarbhatti.jpg
Here’s some more proof Omer is Michael’s son in a Jackson family photo from 2002 standing next to Michael and holding Blanket?
http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/9sxd-1u.jpg
For those who say Michael didn’t date black women, you don’t know Michael. Michael dated Diana Ross, Tatiana, Shana Magantal, Grace Rwarmba. Some names most people would never recognize. Also, names you do recognize. Did you know Diddy said MJ came to his party to hit on Beyonce who invited him? Michael’s own chef said he flirted with her. Michael loved women of all colors.
Total disgrace….Now we know why MJ disconnected himself from this horrible man! He lived off his children and now he is still milking the one he robbed the most. I am sickened by every appearance this man makes! Does he not fear the rath of the Lord!
I agree with Veronica.
So,all this time I guess Billie Jean was his lover and the kid was his son. LOL…Just kidding guys!!!!
MJ liked black women. His bestfriend David Gest said he had a crush on Kelly Rowland. He also told friends that he loved Queen Latifah’s cheekbones. He called Foxy Brown once, and told her she was beautiful. And it was reported that he said that Naomi Campbell was the prettiest woman in the world. Did you see the In The Closet remix, he definitely was feelin Naomi.
And he definitely had a thing for his black chef, Kai Chase. She was on t.v. smiling ear to ear about how MJ would flirt with her, and invited her to go to England with him and his kids. He would dance for her and check out her butt. lol.
I don’t know about Grace the nanny, but his friend said that they were very close, but couldn’t confirm with it was intimate. Only that he always talked about taking her to Europe and showing her around. i think.
MJ liked black women, the media distorted him into this anti-black human being, which wasn’t true.
I seem to remember hearing that a female superstar was his first sexual experience while he was still a minor. I’d always figured it was Dirty Diana Ross Cougar.
Abena makes some very valid points. I’ve defended Joe Jackson because I understand he was not alone during the era he raised his children. It was a time when children were “seen, but not heard”, and whoopin’s were the standard punishment. A lot of men in Joe Jackson’s age group were the type of father he was.
But, I’ve also had to acknowledge that, apparently, at some point he had gone too far in his discipline. Regardless of how good the intentions may be, if the recipient perceives the actions as hurtful, the intentions become irrelevant.
For a lot of people, the toughest thing for them to do is admit when they’ve hurt someone. They tend to dismiss someone’s hurt feelings as hypersensitivity on the other person’s part. This reaction only intensifies the pain because now the other person had denied that there a problem, and that they contributed to it.
Joe Jackson couldn’t have changed the past, but he probably could have healed his relationship with his son if he had simply validated his feelings and said to him, “I was wrong. I’m sorry and I love you.” There truly is the power of life and death in the tongue.
This is ridiculous, are we blind or what,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Look at what the media is doing again…
Pushing the public to believe, that we need to be consumed and interested in someone’s life, and their personal affairs…. other than what will affect our freedom and democracy….
Will MJ’s personal life help lower taxes, reclaim the housing market, increase GDP and Job market growth , save businesses, etc….?
Come on now. I like MJ’s music too, but this trash the media is doing is desecrating the man’s legacy. MJ’s family needs to be left alone to grieve and heal. So that means tell Latoya and Mr. Joe, cool it with the interviews, we are not interested. Your family affairs is not ours!
I could care less who this secret son is ( and personally I think the boy just wants attention, when his mother has already said MJ is not his father on Good Morning America). So enough already. Get a DNA TEST, and call it a day!
Do we know What the heck is going on, on capital hill other than MJ or a health care bill that my children’s children will be responsible paying for… ( I want to know what is all in this bill)
Why is the US Department of Education, cutting all state ( s) funding for education… which means bigger class size, unqualified teachers, not enough desks, and a handful of used and old books? and you know what that means for our inner city schools?
The media has a nerve to bring us into their created world wind of innuendo, sensationalism, conspiracy, and rumors of Michael Jackson, when the unemployment rate is NOW up 11%? homeless rate is up 5 % in recording numbers, but we are talking about MJ’s kids? and if he’s the father or not? God Help us!
You all are falling right in their trap.
All of this is based on the need and greed for fame, from the so called secret son, to Joe Jackson, and Latoya running to the TV cameras… to former staff members of MJ, betraying friends, of MJ, liars, etc. THEY ALL WANT their five minute worth of fame and book deals. Please, let it GO!
Please leave this man alone , and at REST! Let’s move on to the stories that really should be in the news.
Denise well said. NOW THAT’s the truth!
VERONICA YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
MJ loved kids to much to ever keep a child a sercret. also why would he leave this so called son out of his 2002 will adn 2007 will recently found, and then testify under oath in court during his custody cast for his children he ONLY HAS THREE CHILDREN.
when this kid was liitle he did not look MJ, also this kids mother is saying he surgery to make him liek MJ?
and joe don’t have but a bit of sense to agree with the rumor with out a dna test, and when just admitted he did not have a relationship with his son, and he stated on GWA he only has three children?. Oh God.. this is foolishness…
I agree with denise again, enough is enough with this hoax!
You know what, this whole MJ foolishness is starting to work my nerves now. ENOUGH! The man is gone, let him BE.
all these lies, and rumors is crazy. And if I see Joe, Latoya, and this lying damn kid on TV one more day, I will personally coordinate a protest against every news media until they give us the news we MUST hear.
I was watching wheel of fortune and they interupted the program… I thinking this is breaking news, these fools interupted my Tv program for joe jackson interview????????????? why the hell is he eving talking, you need to be with Kathering trying to help with those kids? you and latoya, aint no better than these TMZ fools.
I was pissed off, this is getting out of hand, and only we the public can stop it.
I’m just saddened by his death period. And I totally agree with those of you who feels MJ needs to be left to rip as far as all the bad news concerning him goes. The man was the best and I hate it when his name and Elvis is put in the same sentence. They spell and mean differently. Elvis could and will never be able to compare or come remotely close to MJ. MJ was and still is the best. There will never ever be another one like him again.
Omer has been photographed with the Jackson family in recent days. What does Omer do for a living? how do he support himself?
NO,MATTER HOW ANYONE FEELS, ABOUT- MICHAELS TRADGEDY. THE FACT REMAINS,MR.JOSEPH,JACKSON. IS, MICHAELS FATHER. AND, WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD, THE PLEASSURE OF WITNESSING, MICHAEL,JOSEPH JACKSON. IF (PAPA,JOE) HAD NOT CREATED- HIM. HE, IS A FATHER, WHO HAS LOST HIS- SON,AND ALTHOUGH, HE IS A HARD MAN, HE IS ALSO HUMAN. AND HE LOVED, HIS SON, I AM SURE. HE IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF MAN,WHO GRIEVES IN HIS OWN WAY. JUST AS I THANKED MOTHER,JACKSON. FOR GIVING LIFE TO MICHAEL. I,ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU, MR.JACKSON FOR ALLOWING US TO SEE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNEW TO BE GREAT. THANK,YOU SIR. COOKIE,FROM-BALTIMORE.
I would of Loved an Eathly Father like Joe Jackson who would of brought out the best in me cause I came from a family of eight siblings and boy has it been a struggle and our dad died at the age of 40 when I only had him in my life for eleven years.
He left my Late Mother poor with nine children and struggling with mental illness from the beatings she took from Him and memories of the addiction to His heroin addictions and jail.
That’s the legacy he left of his life behind. Now I found God in my life and He has become my Father and Mother when My Earthly Father and Mother have forsaking me.
At least Joe Jackson made something of his Children and Katherine will be secured with Love from Her Children and financially stable for the rest of Her life with or without Joe Jackson.
Let me correct something I posted here: “I would of loved an Earthly Father who would of cared deeply enough to secure His family future”.
Joe Jackson did all what He Knew and what was handed down to Him from the mistreatment of slaves by their SLAVE MASTERS. There is a root to every problem.
For me sharing my own personal testimony in this blogg is, because we don’t need to do “God Job” He will fix what has been broken and God will help the lost to be found. We must just look to the “hills” where comes our help and that is from the Lord.
I’m forgiving Joe just as I forgiven my Earthly Father for dying from a drug over dose and leaving behind a mentally ill young 38 years old widow and nine children ages 18-10 without any money or a place to live.
Now now, Joe all I can say is: SNAP OUT OF IT, THIS CAN NOT POSSIBLE BE MIKE’S Son, not by a small chance. I did look at the morph of Micheal features into Omars and their is no simularities.
Joe Jackson is just talking anything that the media wants to hear for his five minutes of fame into the cameras this Man need to put a lid on it. I was feeling bad on him for how hard everyone was riding on him, but this is a total disrespect to Mikes living fans.
I don’t think if Mike had a son he would hide the truth he would of made it publicly known,so why all this crap now coming out now that he is dead.
Mike having an illegitimate child would of been scandalous from the time he made his “thriller debut” SO WHY NOW? TWENTY FIVE YEARS LATER. Mr.Joe Jackson stop the lies.
Joe Jackson you lucky you were the father to my Late seregate husband Micheal or I will chew your ass to shreds for falsifying that this man is Micheal son. Joe Jackson ought to be a shame of himself havn’t he caused enough wrecking havoc on Micheal life while he was alive and he still torturing the Man in death.
Joe Jackson Go take your demonized by money ass home to Katherine and sit down in your recliner and have a second chance of being a father in doing it in the right way.