THE MIRROR NEWSPAPER REPORTS
Michael Jackson’s secret sister today tells of her heartache at being shunned by her famous family for 35 years.
JohVonnie Jackson, whose mum was a lover of Jacko’s dad Joe, is close to her father and amazingly gets on with family matriarch Katherine.
But almost all JohVonnie’s well-known brothers and sisters treat her as an outcast and she never got to meet Michael until she was 29.
She would even attend Jacko’s and Janet’s concerts but was not allowed to speak to them while La Toya would ignore her in shops.
Mum-of-one JohVonnie, 35, said: “I feel rejected by some of my family. It’s upsetting and hurtful.”
JohVonnie Jackson yesterday told how one of her biggest letdowns at the hands of her famous family came when she finally got to meet her brother Michael.
JohVonnie – who for years had been forced to admire him from afar – got the chance she had long dreamt of when the clan gathered at his Neverland ranch in 2003 and she was given a rare invite.
She was thrilled to come face-to-face with him for the first time at 29 but dismayed that Jacko showed no warmth towards her and was more interested in her eight-year-old daughter Yasmine.
JohVonnie, now 35, recalled: “It was a big moment for me. But Michael was looking at me and seemed cold. He just said, ‘Hi’ and then he saw my daughter Yasmine and was fascinated with her.”
Jacko said “Hi” to the youngster but had to be corrected when he mispronounced her name with a J.
JohVonnie went on: “He said, ‘OK, Yasmine with a Y’, and that was it. He never acknowledged that I was his sister, there was no hug or kiss, not even a handshake. No physical contact at all.
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