All this alliterate permanent A list singer has done with her recent statement about the back in the day baby conspiracy is add fuel to the fire of said conspiracy.

Janet Jackson

James DeBarge

Janet Jackson Denies Having a Secret Baby With Ex-Husband James DeBarge and More Documentary Reveals

The Grammy winner, 55, began filming the two-part Lifetime series in 2017 when she invited a production crew to document her State of the World tour. They stayed with her for a full five years.

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Her 1st Marriage

Janet began dating her first husband, James DeBarge, when she was 16. They eloped in 1984 when she was 18, with DeBarge’s uncle marrying them in a secret ceremony in Grand Rapids, Michigan. On their wedding night, the Poetic Justice actress began to suspect that something was amiss when her then-husband, now 58, left her alone in their hotel room for three hours.

Taking care of the Michigan native began to affect her work on Fame because she would show up late after searching for her spouse all night. “I eventually learned that he was into drugs,” she recalled. “I remember times when I would find the pills and I would take them and try to flush them down the toilet, and we would be rolling around the floor fighting for them. That’s not a life for anyone. I sit and I say, ‘Were you stupid? Were you dumb?’ But it wasn’t that. I cared so much for him.”

Janet and DeBarge annulled their union in 1985 after one year of marriage.

The Infamous Rumor

The Diff’rent Strokes alum finally addressed — and denied — the longtime rumor that she had a child she kept secret both from DeBarge and the public. “I could never keep a child away from James,” she said. “How could I keep a child from their father? I could never do that. That’s not right.”

The Why Did I Get Married? star partly blamed the rumor’s spread on the fact that she gained weight while she was filming Fame — not from being pregnant, but from taking birth control pills. – Source

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