Janet Jackson: We Tried Drug Interventions with Michael

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2:40 pm, November 18th, 2009

In an interview airing tonight on ABC, Janet Jackson says her late brother’s drug problems led the family to intervene, and that Michael Jackson was “possibly” in denial about his addiction.

Jackson tells Robin Roberts that she and her family were not naive about the King of Pop’s drug use and unsuccessfully reached out to him in his final years. “You can’t make ‘em drink the water,” she says of attempts to break Michael’s habits. Asked whether her brother was in denial, she says, “I wish he could answer this question for you and not me. I felt that he was in denial.”

Jackson also discusses Dr. Conrad Murray (her brother’s controversial physician) and the hit documentary “This Is It” in the interview.

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