Janet Jackson’s household tree is far more fruitful than one could have thought.
Most are conscious that the “Miss You Much” singer’s brothers have been the members of the Jackson 5 — together with the King of Pop himself, the late Michael Jackson. However throughout a current interview with Scott Mills on BBC Sounds, Jackson identified that she additionally has some very well-known — and seemingly random — cousins.
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The subject got here up when Mills requested the “Escapade” singer if it was true that she’s associated to multi-Grammy winner, Stevie Surprise.
“He’s our cousin,” Jackson confirmed casually. “Not a lot of people know that. He’s our cousin, on my mother’s [Katherine Jackson] side.”
And as Mill’s face froze in disbelief, the “Poetic Justice” star determined to call two different well-known of us that she has the consideration of calling “cuz.”
“So is Tracy Chapman,” Jackson stated of the “Fast Car” crooner. “So is Samuel [L.] Jackson.”
X, previously Twitter customers, who noticed Mill’s interview on the platform have been shocked by Jackson’s revelation.
Oddly sufficient, Samuel L. Jackson denied being associated to Micheal Jackson throughout an interview with Wired in 2017.
When the “Pulp Fiction” star was requested if he was associated to the “Thriller” singer, he merely replied with a: “Nope!”
HuffPost has reached out to Samuel L. Jackson, Chapman and Surprise for remark.
