- Give it up for my band, y'all
along with Ashley and Carol
who's subbing in for Jessi today.
Get it ladies.
That was some classic Janet Jackson for you.
You're welcome.
We have someone very special on the line
who's deeply connected to that song.
In fact, she sang that song and in fact,
I was nervous as hell singing for her.
(giggles)
Give it up for Ms. Janet Jackson y'all.
(audience cheering and clapping)
Oh my gosh.
I'm gonna be really honest with you.
I am sweating so much from singing and like,
you can hear it so well,
anyway, you made me very nervous ma'am
but thank you for letting me sing another one of your songs.
I love covering your music.
(audience clapping)
- I love the way you cover my music,
I think you are an absolutely wonderful singer
and I love to hear it so thank you.
- Oh my gosh. And also, I wanna say this too
because you not only tweeted me,
like after escapade I died when I did escapade,
but you did something so nice and you sent me flowers
and little messages, so sweet.
And I was having such a hard time.
So, thank you so much.
You have no idea what it meant.
So, I just wanted to say thank you for that.
And also, we have sons that are like the same age.
Your son is five, right?
- Yes. Eissa just turned five.
- Oh, that's exciting.
My boy Remy is five, too.
What's he into right now?
- Oh, a lot of different things.
I mean like all babies it constantly changes,
but we have to get them together though.
- Oh my gosh.
- We have to get them together.
- I would love that and here's the thing,
my boy is a lot, he's my child.
So, you know this and five-year-old boy,
(laughs)
but he loves costumes.
I cannot keep my kid out of costumes.
He loves dressing up as Black Panther,
Spider-Man like all of them.
- I think all kids do.
- Yeah.
- All kids do that.
- I'm a grownup.
I'm 39, I pretty much appreciate it still as well
so, I don't know.
Ah but wait, you're on the cover
of the February cover of Allure.
So let's check out these photos, these are awesome.
(audience clapping)
Look at that photo.
(audience cheering)
Does this like mark a new evolution in your fashion?
This is so awesome.
Look at that.
(audience cheering)
I mean, you've always been like really rad.
Good Lord.
I'm like, this is, I will never be this cool,
is what I'm seeing right now.
(crowd clapping)
Do you enjoy one, doing photo shoots?
And two,
Oh, I love that.
Okay. I have to stop talking.
That's so beautiful.
Do you enjoy doing, look what?
What are you, in like a Fancy Tron?
It's like, that looks amazing.
I would look so ridiculous and you look so awesome.
I'm a little mad about it
but do you love getting into it?
Are you part of that creative process
with all the photo shoots?
- With all the photo shoots?
- Yeah, like any photo shoots you do?
- Yeah, I think it's important to be
and I'm thankful that they allow me to be
but that was a fun shoot that we did in London.
That jacket, that plastic when you said Tron,
it was so heavy.
It was cool though.
They put it on backwards.
(kelly laughing)
- They put it on backwards?
Was it on purpose or a happy accident?
(Kelly laughing)
Okay. I was like,
that would have been better if they were like,
"Oh, hell just go with it."
(kelly laughing)
That would've been way better. Oops.
Well, Janet has a two night documentary event on Lifetime,
it's called "Janet Jackson" and premiers this Friday.
We have a clip.
I'm so stoked about it.
Let's see that.
- [Male Voice 1] Why did you want to do this documentary?
- It's just something that needs to be done.
- This is where it started.
Your have a father, he had a vision to get us out of Gary.
- [Host] The Jackson Five.
(crowd cheering)
- There were times when I just didn't understand
where I actually fit in.
- [Female VoiceOver] This is a story about control
- [Janet] And my father was very strict.
- [Female VoiceOver] My control.
- He was in charge of my life, my career.
My father said, "You're gonna sing."
♪ I wanna be the one in control ♪
I think I have to start being independent.
- The most important thing was for her
to take that stage and own it.
♪ But now I know I've got to do ♪
(upbeat music)
- [Janet] It's just a side that no one has ever seen.
This is me.
(audience clapping)
- Okay. So, you don't hold back in this documentary.
And I love that because I feel like
there's no point in doing something like this,
unless you are going to be vulnerable,
but was there a part of it
that you were a little afraid to put in the documentary?
- Afraid to put in?
I think it was more so than being afraid,
it was really trying to figure out
what to put in and what not to put in
because how can you document your life,
telling your story in four hours?
That's a very difficult thing to do.
So, it's like okay, what do you put in?
What don't you put?
It's not possible.
So, you have to leave certain things out.
- Absolutely.
- But I hope you
- Oh, I'm gonna love it.
I'm gonna talk about this moment actually
for like a year so yup.
I'm living my best life right now, ma'am.
I think that what was hard for me
is anytime somebody talks to me about my career
and like doing stuff like that,
I always get worried too.
'Cause I'm like, you know,
a part of your story is also other people's stories.
And so I'm always like,
wait, what should I say?
And if you have kids,
I always get very nervous about it.
That's why I don't do it
'cause I get really nervous.
But I think it's really important that you do
because as a super fan, since I was a kid
and even still now, you're just such a musical giant.
All us girls dream of becoming and still google at
while we're watching you on stage
at the Billboard Music Awards when I was hosting
and I was freaking out on the sidelines.
And it's one of those things I think is so important
and it's so cool and I just wanna say thank you
'cause it's not an easy thing to do to let people in
'cause I'm very private with a part of my life.
So, just thank you for doing that.
I think it's really cool.
Allowing people in a little bit and to see,
you know, all the colors of you.
(audience clapping)
- That's very sweet of you, thank you.
It's not an easy thing to do.
- I know. I'm glad you did it 'cause girl, I'm not.
So, nope. I'll save that for friends and family.
(laughs)
When I get d-rank.
(audience laughing)
It happens.
But like seriously,
I can't even put into words how incredible you are
and how much you've impacted not only us girls
that you just heard singing,
but like the band, like everybody.
Anyway, I just want to say,
thank you so much for doing this.
It has been an honor.
- Thank you so much.
And hopefully we will have the opportunity to meet some day.
I would love to meet you.
And I've been following you since the American Idol
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- in the very beginning.
- And always running rooting you truly.
That's the truth, honest truth.
- [Kelly] Oh, thank you.
- I'm so happy for you.
- I am not gonna cry 'cause Glo will kill me,
so we're fine.
(laughs)
Thank you so much and I didn't know we had sons
the same age, that's so awesome.
So, if you like a ball of energy, let's have a play date.
(giggles)
- Please, let's do that.
- Okay, awesome.
Have a good one girl.
- Same to you.
- Thank you so much Janet.
"Janet Jackson" is a four hour, two night event.
It premieres this Friday, January 28th at 8/7 Central
on both Lifetime and A&E.
Part two airs the following night so don't miss it y'all.
I'm so excited that this moment just happened.
Thank you so much for being on my show
and thank you for the flowers and this sweet message.
Have a great 2022.