"He was the one that was administering, I think he is responsible."
Janet Jackson, who is currently promoting the release of her new greatest hits album Number Ones, sat down with ABC News for a new interview where in she talks about, among other things, the untimely death of her older brother Michael Jackson. According to Janet, MJ’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray is to blame for his death and should be made to pay the price by losing the ability to practice medicine:
Speaking out five months after Michael Jackson’s death, Janet Jackson placed blame on Dr. Conrad Murray, saying the doctor should no longer be allowed to practice medicine. “He was the one that was administering,” she told ABC’s Robin Roberts. “I think he is responsible.” Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, remains the focus of a manslaughter investigation into the pop star’s death. Murray has admitted to administering the anesthetic propofol, but has denied giving Michael anything that should have killed him. Jackson, who has walled herself in silence, fiercely guarding her private thoughts about the death of her beloved brother, Michael, opened up to Roberts in an exclusive interview that will air, Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 10 p.m. ET. “It’s been a tough year,” she said. “You have your days where it’s just really — it’s hard to believe. And a day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about him.” Jackson recounted the details of the morning of June 25, before she learned that Michael had collapsed, and her world turned upside down. “I was at my house in New York. You know, another day. Another morning. And I get a call … [my assistant] said, ‘Your brother’s been taken to the hospital. It’s on CNN right now,’” she told Roberts. “I called everyone’s. There’s a line busy or — someone wasn’t picking up. I spoke to mother. I spoke to Tito. I spoke to my nephew Austin. I spoke to my sister La Toya.” “I told them to call me when they got to the hospital. And I remember thinking nobody’s calling me back, so I tried calling again, and that’s how I found out that he was no longer … I couldn’t believe it,” she said. Jackson said the she and the entire family were in a state of disbelief. “It just didn’t ring true to me. It felt like a dream,” she said. “It’s still so difficult for me to believe. It’s, you know, you have to accept what is. But it’s hard. You have to move on with your life. You have to accept what is and I understand that.” For Jackson, Michael’s memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where the late King of Pop was surrounded by love ones, helped her come to terms with her brother’s death. “My brother’s favorite song is ‘Smile.’ And I thought Jermaine sang it beautifully, beautifully. And that’s his favorite song as well. …There being some sort of a closure, I suppose, at that time,” she said, getting emotional. Janet, who has sold 100 million records and became a five-time Grammy award-winning artist, was the youngest of nine children in the brood. Growing up, she said that she was always closest to Michael. “We were incredibly close,” she said, “A lot of similarities, his love for children and me being a baby … We would practically do everything together from morning to night every day. Everyday.” She recalled how the two would play after school, feeding the animals together at the family’s Hayvenhurst compound in Encino, Calif. “We’d feed all the animals, took care of the babies. All the animals — giraffes, mouflon sheep, deer, they had fawned. All kinds of animals, all kinds of birds. And I remember I would come home from school with the hay like I’m going to a ranch,” she said. In later years, she famously wore the key to the animal cages in all her music videos — a memento from her youth. But Jackson does not look back on all of her childhood memories as fondly …
Janet’s chat with Robin Roberts continues from here. After the jump, read Janet’s not-so-fond memories of growing in the Jackson household and how her upbringing impacted her and her famous siblings …
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