According to SCMP, the king of pop Michael Jackson and his siblings were cold towards JohVonnie because they thought she and her mother had broken up their family.
According to SCMP , the secrets about the king of pop Michael Jackson always attract the curiosity of fans, especially the family stories of the late music legend.
Katherine and Joe Jackson are the parents of Michael Jackson. He is the eighth of ten children. The singer’s siblings best known to the media are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Michael, Randy and Janet.
Like Michael Jackson, the siblings all pursued artistic careers. In the 1970s and 1980s, the men rose to fame as the group The Jackson 5, while the sisters pursued solo careers.
Janet Jackson is the most famous of the family, second only to Michael Jackson. She appeared on the famous show Fame , released the hit album Rhythm Nation 1814. The incident on stage at the 2001 Super Bowl with Justin Timberlake is still talked about by the public.
However, very few people know the name JohVonnie Jackson – Michael Jackson’s secret half-sister who was turned away by her family.
Michael Jackson with his family when he was young. Photo: @thejacksons.
Illegitimate children are neglected.
JohVonnie is the daughter of Joe Jackson and his girlfriend Cheryle Terrell. She is 47 years old and currently lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in the hotel business. She has a daughter named Yasmine, who is 23 years old.
In 2018, she published the book B****d Child about growing up as Michael Jackson’s secret, unacknowledged half-sister.
In her autobiography, JohVonnie said she lived less than 10 km from her father’s family and siblings. However, Joe Jackson always kept JohVonnie’s presence a secret. He did not want the press to know that he had a lover and had a child out of wedlock.
JohVonnie was born just one day after Michael Jackson’s 16th birthday. For her, being considered an outsider to one of the most famous families in the world is a painful feeling that not everyone understands.
“I was aware from a young age that I was part of the Jackson family . I saw them on TV, I saw my brothers and sisters perform. I knew that, but I had to hide, stay silent for many years. Not being able to reach out or be accepted by the family was quite traumatic,” JohVonnie said in an interview.
JohVonnie with her father as a child (left) and now with her daughter Yasmine. Photo: @johvonniejackson74.
The book also recounts how she was bullied at school as a child. Although she was not admitted to it, people living nearby knew about it. Being the unaccepted child of the Jackson family made her the subject of ridicule and constant bullying.
When Joe Jackson told his family about the existence of his illegitimate child, they were reluctant to accept it. According to his autobiography, JohVonnie was disappointed when she met her half-siblings.
While she was excited to know her family, her siblings were cold. Being from different mothers and living far apart kept them from being close. “When I was there, they treated me normally. But when I came home and for many years afterwards, they never called me or asked about my daughter Yasmine,” she wrote in her autobiography.
When JohVonnie’s mother died, her eldest mother Katherine was the first to call to check on her. The only sister who cared about her feelings was Rebbie. JohVonnie said the singer was the only one of her siblings who really cared about her. “She made me feel like family,” she told the British press.
Michael Jackson was not close to his sister
According to SCMP , JohVonnie first met her brother Michael when she was 29 years old. They met at a family reunion at the King of Pop’s Neverland ranch.
She described Michael Jackson as cold. The King of Pop was almost indifferent to his half-sister. In return, he cared for his niece Yasmine, who was 9 years old at the time.
“Michael looked at me strangely. He simply said hello. But I was really surprised when he showed interest and played with my daughter,” she recounted in her autobiography.
Michael Jackson became a global star before he met his half-sister. Photo: @thejacksons, @johvonniejackson74.
JohVonnie said her family remained cold to her even after many years. At the party that day, only singer Rebbie Jackson opened up to her. JohVonnie felt comforted when Michael Jackson allowed his daughter Paris to play with baby Yasmine for hours.
According to Jackson family members, they were cold towards JohVonnie because her mother was the one who made their family unhappy. Michael Jackson was often angry with his father for loving his illegitimate child more than his mother and other children.
During his time living with his ex-wife, Joe visited JohVonnie every day with many gifts, while he ignored Katherine and was cold to his children. When Katherine and Joe broke up, JohVonnie moved to live with her father in Las Vegas, USA until his death in 2018.
