For years there have been rumors that Janet Jackson secretly gave birth to a child that was raised by an unnamed member of the Jackson family, a product of Janet’s brief marriage to James DeBarge back in the 80s.
DeBarge tells Radar Online that a young woman reached out to him claiming to be his and Janet Jackson’s long lost daughter.
“Someone had contacted me. She spoke to me by email. The first time was two years ago. I have not been able to directly see her face-to-face,” DeBarge said. “She was angry because another child was trying to come forward and say that she was our child. So she did out of anger.”
In the interview DeBarge says that the conversation with her seems to have him leaning towards believing her.
“She described as much as she could tell me because she was very fearful at the time. She was very angry about people running with this story about this [other child] being my baby,” DeBarge said. “She got very angry. She’s like, ‘Papa I want to help you out.’ She had so much of personality and she was so accurate with everything she was saying, it was only things that I and Janet know. No one else but god, me and Janet.”
