Michael Jacksons half-sister’s hurt at being ignored by the singer
Michael Jackson’s half-sister has spoken of her hurt at being ignored by the singer and being left out of his obituary by dad Joe Jackson.
In her first interview in US television, Joh’Vonnie Jackson – born after an affair between Joe and her mother Cheryl Terrell 30 years ago – talked about growing up as an illegitimate member of the famous clan.
Joh’Vonnie, who was born the day after Michael’s 16th birthday, said: “I was taunted and teased and beat up just about every day… because I was Joh’Vonnie Jackson, Joe Jackson’s daughter, Michael Jackson’s half-sister. And it was awful, awful, awful.”
She added: “Sometimes I just want to scream so loud that all the windows in my house break.
“(People) say that the Jackson family shouldn’t accept me… ‘You are Joe Jackson’s bastard child and your mother was a groupie.’ My mother was not.”
She met Michael Jackson at a family gathering in Neverland in 2003, but was shunned by him.
Joh’Vonnie said: “I was expecting for Michael to want to talk to me and get to know what’s going on in my life. I thought maybe he might have some questions but he didn’t. It was hurtful.”
And since the King of Pop’s death, she has fallen out with dad Joe.
“He knows that I’m mad at him,” she said. “My name wasn’t even on the obituary – what’s that about? So it hurts my feelings, that I feel my father is denying me.”
Source: Splash News
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This makes me very sad & my heart goes out to this young lady. I understand her pain. When I was a young girl, my father ventured outside of his marriage and had illegitmate children with someone else. My mother was so hurt & they ended up divorcing. I was taught not to like any of these children, and that was the case until I became an adult. My father and his girlfriend are both now deceased and I have since tried to befriend my half sister. I have even apologized for my actions towards her. I guess that I was feeling my mother’s pain, and had a hard time forgiving my father, as well. Then I started thinking, this child is innocent and didn’t ask to be born. Why should she have to be punished for her parents doings. I feel very differently now, because God is Love, and I must love my siblings, all of them, in order to please God. I hope that the Jackson family will embrace this child and give her the love that she so needs. Life is too short to carry hatred and ill-feelings against someone, especially a family member.