She was always a real lady, a real classy person. Her singing voicemail messages are just one way she takes after her daddy. I have not been able to directly see her face-to-face.. Troubled Singer El DeBarge spoke with Allhiphop.com about his recent arrest, drug problems and his struggles to I didnt like James Brown at all!, If you want to find Mama D, just look at the beauty shop. He thought El would be most likely to succeed, Mama D said. She is extremely close to her mother and the two finish one anothers sentences. The miniseries will be based on her 2008 self-published memoir, The Other Side of the Pain., God will receive the glory from this miniseries, she said. #janetjacksondoc encore 2nite @8pm on @lifetimetv ? I hadnt known for sure, he said. As often as she could, Mama D took the beatings for her children. My mother wore an apron, which was always wet because she was constantly scrubbing clothes with lye soap for her 11 children. The people there loved the Lord and loved on us. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. And back then, you could pick up weight taking them, and thats what happened to me. 1 single on the dance chart and three No. People will tell me, I need to talk to someone. Someone was working with them.. Insiderreported that, in 2017, DeBarge attempted to reveal a secret child. #ControlTheNarrative #Iconic Janet4ever @lifetimetv, That said, Bunny didn't buy it. Legendary performer Janet Jacksons life will be explored this weekend in a two-part documentary event airing on Lifetime and A&E. The 55-year-old artist addressed the rumours in the second part of the forthcoming documentary Janet, along with a number of other gossip items she had heard about herself over the years. TheGrio is now on Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku. The film, simply titled Janet, will also address many of the rumors that have swirled around the singer-actress for years. Etterline was just 16. After decades of rumors about Janet Jackson and James DeBarges daughter and claims they had a secret child before their divorce, the conspiracy theories Once she became famous in her own right, it was only a matter of time before she would be on the receiving end of some wild rumors. ThePoetic Justicestar gave birth to her first and only child, Eissa, in 2017. The pair were married when Jackson was 18 and DeBarge was 21. She was angry because another child was trying to come forward and say that she was our child. "How could I keep a child from their father? Blogger Joy Sewing at 29-95.com captured this moment with the singer at a recent in-store at Serious Sounds Record in Houston: El Debarge girlfriends: El DeBarge was previously married to Monica Debarge. He had at least 2 relationship previously. El Debarge has not been previously engaged. El DeBarge has been in a relationship with Pebbles. We are currently in process of looking up information on the previous dates and hookups. Janet Jackson's first husband, James DeBarge is the father of three children and was a singer in a famous band. Once upon a time, Janet Jackson of the fabulous musical Jackson clan eloped with James DeBarge, from another famous singing family, the DeBarges. In the 80s, the DeBarge group was on the rise, even as the Jackson 5 faltered due to Michael Jackson's "defection," and James and Janet's marriage was big news. Even though she was the preacher's sister, DeBarge sometimes fell asleep during Bishop William Abney's sermons, prompting her big brother to pick on her. Back in the day, they were saying that I had a child, and I kept it secret, Jackson said. Friends of Etterlene DeBarge know if theyre feeling blue, a quick call to Mama Ds cellphone will pick them right up even if she doesnt answer. "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 on the floor fighting for them, that's not a life for anyone," Jackson said in the documentary. When I realized addiction was a sickness, it helped me deal with it better. DeBarge also says that people gave him and Jackson a hard time about their relationship even before the baby rumors started. Had he lived one year longer, I never would have married Robert DeBarge, she said. He died at age 39 of AIDS, which he contracted in prison. The youngest of ten children, the Rhythm Nation singer admired her brother, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. WebEl DeBarge has 12 children. Have you subscribed to theGrio podcasts Dear Culture or Acting Up? Download our newest episodes now!TheGrio is now on Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku. "I could never keep a child away from James," Jackson said. In a recently aired Lifetime and A&E documentary about her life, Jackson talked about growing up in a family of performers. Etterlene was further convinced after she and Tiffany took a DNA test which said, "the probability of relatedness is 96.7%. And in an open letter published in the magazine that same year, DeBarge himself cried out to Jackson to reveal the truth to him. She spoke to me by email, he said. He said the woman claimed that Janet was her biological mother. To this day, they remember his wisdom.. While El Debarge was in Houston for the Back To Me tour with Fantasia, he got a second chance at being a father when he was introduced to his daughter for the first time after 15 years. There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names, she recalled, before listing examples: Pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow., He would laugh about it and Id laugh too, but then there was somewhere down inside that it would hurt, she continued.