Not Entirely Honest or Revealing
I enjoyed the doco series, but there were a few things left out.
Firstly, Joe Jackson's physical and sexual abuse of his children. Michael spoke of the physical abuse. Latoya of the sexual. Janet mentions neither. Why is that? Had Joe mellowed by the time she came along? Even so. She should speak to these serious allegations.
Secondly, we don't really hear how she really felt about the Michael Jackson allegations of child sexual abuse. In one version, she says that it "wasn't in him" but in another version (shown on Stan in Australia) that entire part is edited out! I want to know, IN DETAIL, how she feels about the latest allegations detailed in LEAVING NEVERLAND especially. This was the perfect opportunity to counter and set the record straight, and like most things, Janet doesn't go there.
Thirdly, WHY NO MENTION OF HER BABY DADDY? Janet goes into detail about her two failed marriages, but not the third to Wissam Al Mana. Was so dishonest and disrespectful to the audience who had made the long journey thru this doco for her to not even go there. How rude!
And finally, the Superbowl. Janet had the perfect opportunity to come clean and admit it was staged for publicity but that they had misread what the reaction would be. Instead we have no real questions on it, Tito speaking on her behalf that she didn't do it, then footage of her calling it an 'accident'. It was no accident. The song lyrics sung by Justin was 'I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song', he grabs for her breast, he pulls down, the breast is revealed, and she doesn't cover it up. ADMIT TO IT!
So over all, for me, this doco failed. And that angers and disappoints me. The Jackson family have never come clean about what goes on--Latoya came the closest in the early 90s. I just wish Janet did too.