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Janet Jackson publicly spoke on the recent death of her father, Joseph Jackson, for the first time in a touching tribute during her 2018 ESSENCE Festival performance.
Taking a quick pause from her high-energy show that had the audience on their feet from beginning to end, the 52-year-old entertainer was moved to tears as she opened up about how she’s coping with the passing of the man who groomed she and her siblings for unimaginable success as a video montage of their intimate father-daughter moments played behind her.
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