Remember the baby Janet Jackson was rumored to have conceived with then-husband James DeBarge and given up for adoption? Well James supposedly tells Radar Online that a young woman claiming to be his daughter recently reached out to him, wanting a paternity test.
“Someone had contacted me. She spoke to me by email,” he said. “The first time was two years ago. I have not been able to directly see her face-to-face.”
As Janet prepares to have a baby at age 50 with new hubby Wissam Al Mana, rumors of this secret love child have come roaring back.
DeBarge said the woman asked if they could take a paternity test, but it hasn’t happened yet because he’s afraid to meet her. He said the woman claimed that Janet was her biological mother.
“She did but without saying [it],” he 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.”
DeBarge says the woman wanted to keep their new connection private.
“She called me ‘papa,’” DeBarge said. “She didn’t want to get her mom in trouble. She wanted to do it quietly. She didn’t even want Janet to know.”
“She described as much as she could tell me because she was very fearful at the time,” he continued. “She was very angry about people running with this story about this [other child] being my baby. 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.”
In the interview, James says he does believe that Janet gave birth to a baby girl when they were married and kept the pregnancy a secret from him. DeBarge claims that in the emails he received from the woman, he was told that Jackson had allegedly put her up for adoption.
“One of her adoptive parents died,” he said. “Her adoptive mother and on her death bed said she told her. She confirmed it on the deathbed.”
James said he always had his suspicions that Janet had a baby. “I hadn’t known for sure,” he said. “I went on a search. Someone went through some serious changes to make it impossible for me to find. This had to be some serious inside work being done with the paperwork. Someone was working with them.”
So when the girl emailed him, DeBarge was overwhelmed by emotions.
