Jermaine Jackson backs down: obvious contradictions
After Tito, Jermaine is the second person to withdraw his signature from the Jacksons’ letter to the Michael Foundation. In a statement, he said:
“It’s time to live under the shelter of Michael’s loving words and put the war aside. I present this statement to you along with an olive branch (the symbol of peace).
In very emotional circumstances, mistakes happened and irrational words were spoken by both sides. Now it’s time to accept peace and move forward toward love and healing.”
Jermaine said that their protest letter to the foundation—where they called Michael’s will fake and the foundation’s trustees deceitful—should not have been made public, and that the contents of the letter should have been discussed in a friendly and private manner between the two parties. He wrote:
“I withdraw my signature from this letter, which should never have been made public.” But contradictions are all over Jermaine’s statement.
1) In their letter to the foundation, the Jacksons claimed that their mother had recently suffered a brain attack. Paris Jackson called this a lie, and in response, Jermaine Jackson wrote on Twitter that their mother had suffered an attack—but months earlier. However, yesterday in his statement, he wrote that Catherine’s only problem is high blood pressure.
2) Jermaine had previously said that their mother traveled on a doctor’s orders, but that wasn’t mentioned in his recent statement. He only wrote that, according to his doctor, she needed to stay away from tension.
“As our mother’s lawyer, Perry Sanders, confirmed, a recent checkup shows that our mother has high blood pressure. The need for rest was the only reason we sent her to Arizona.”
3) Janet was preventing communication between Catherine and Michael’s children. Paris revealed this on Twitter, and Jermaine responded by saying that the children were never prevented from talking with their grandmother. But in his recent statement, he implicitly confirmed Paris’s words and said that their purpose in transferring Catherine to Arizona was to keep her from getting involved in their war against the foundation.
“When our mother was in Arizona and TJ was taking care of Michael’s children, no one—out of ill will—stopped Michael’s children from contacting our mother. We were only worried that her contact with my home would lead to her talking with people we have disagreements with, and that could cause anxiety and worry for our mother.”
4) Jermaine wrote that when Catherine was in Arizona, TJ was caring for Michael’s children. But after TJ’s eleven-day efforts to get Michael’s children to speak with Catherine went nowhere, he officially took temporary guardianship of them and had no prior legal obligation or requirement to do so. While Catherine was still in Arizona, Michael’s children spent eleven days without their legal guardian.
5) Jermaine writes that they had gone to the Calabasas home to talk with Michael’s children, but security forces prevented them from contacting them.
“We went to Calabasas to talk to the kids and discuss how they can meet their grandmother. But the guards didn’t allow us to do that, and it was clear that mutual suspicion had caused the administration of affairs to get out of control. I’m sorry that it went this far. I’m sorry for any distress we caused for Prince, Paris, and Blanket. My intention—Jannet, Rebbie, and Randy’s intention—was never that.”
Surveillance footage shows Paris and Prince getting out of a car, greeting their uncles and aunts, and exchanging pleasantries. But shortly after, things become tense and a confrontation occurs. So, in essence, they had managed to face Michael’s children. However, instead of talking, they took photos of the kids with their own cameras—and even Janet tried to take Paris’s mobile phone from her. That’s when security forces stepped in, and they were driven out.
In short, Jermaine says that the order barring them from entering Calabasas caused him to step away from his previous position.
“Yesterday, I received a phone call from my son Jafar, and it broke my heart. He asked, ‘Is it true that we can no longer gather at my grandmother’s house like a family?’”
The final line of his letter is: “Above all else, what matters is… family.” But for Michael, his children come first. Jermaine has no legal right to challenge the Michael Foundation or the administration of his children, yet in his letter he emphasized that his concerns about the foundation remain, and that he will step into the arena whenever necessary—but this time not by creating a public spectacle. He also didn’t mention that the will is fake.
Roger Friedman called Jermaine Jackson a pragmatist. He wrote:
“In the end, he realized he couldn’t defeat the Michael Jackson Foundation. He took the name from the letter that was the source of all this trouble. He left Jannet and Rebbie alone in the storm, and Randy has also been completely isolated. Of course, it shouldn’t be surprising that Jermaine left him behind. Jermaine ‘stole’ the mother of his children and got two more children with her.”
Source: eMJey.com / Showbiz۴۱۱ & AP