Janet Jackson Says “It’s Not Possible” to Capture Her Whole Life in New Lifetime Doc

Janet Jackson is getting candid about her Lifetime documentary forward of its premiere. Throughout her look on The Kelly Clarkson Present, the long-lasting singer teased a clip from her self-titled documentary earlier than speaking about what viewers can anticipate. When requested if there was something she was afraid to incorporate within the documentary, Jackson revealed that the true battle was making an attempt to sum up her whole life within the two-part mission.

“Extra so than being afraid, it was actually making an attempt to determine what to place in and what to not put in,” she mentioned. “As a result of how are you going to doc your life, inform your story, in 4 hours? That is a really troublesome factor to do . . . it is not doable, so you need to depart sure issues out.”

Janet — a documentary 5 years within the making — will discover Jackson’s extraordinary life and profession like by no means earlier than. A trailer for the upcoming mission guarantees that Jackson will deal with a number of pivotal factors of her life — together with her notorious Tremendous Bowl controversy, her earlier marriages, and her relationship together with her late brother, Michael Jackson.

In keeping with The Solar, Jackson reveals within the upcoming documentary that she started battling body-image points initially of her performing profession, when she was simply 11 years outdated. Her brother even contributed to those points, calling her names like “pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow.” “He would snort about it, and I would snort too, however then there was someplace down inside that it could damage,” she says. “When you have got any person say you are too heavy, it impacts you.” Janet premieres on Lifetime and A&E on Jan. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. ET.