It’s been an urban rumor for years- and now the ex-husband of Janet Jackson is publicly claiming that he and Jackson have a secret daughter together. During an episode of WE TV Series’s Growing Hip Hop, James DeBarge tells his daughter Kristinia that the rumors of he and Jackson’s love child are true.
Debarge, 53, and Jackson, 50 eloped in 1984 and their marriage was annulled a year later. Jackson is now married to her third husband Wissam Al Mana; pregnant with the couple’s first child.
