“It was an accident that should not have happened,” Jackson says in the documentary.
“But everyone is looking for someone to blame and that’s gotta stop.”
Janet Jacksonjust wants everybody to move on.
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And according to her Lifetime documentary, she already has.
The date, Feb. 1, 2004, lives in pop culture infamy.
The news of the malfunction seemed to spread to all corners world.
Janet Jackson in ‘Janet’.A&E
The incident became the inspiration for the video platform YouTube, according to co-founder Jawed Karim.
However, for Jackson, it was an overblown incident even though it impacted her career profoundly.
“It was an accident that should not have happened,” she says in the documentary.
“But everyone is looking for someone to blame and that’s gotta stop.
Justin and I are very good friends and we will always be good friends.”
The last time Jackson addressed the Super Bowl controversy was onThe Oprah Winfrey Showin 2006.
She vowed then that was to be the first, and last, time she would address the incident.
Additionally, she made it clear she regretted apologizing about the incident because it was “an accident.”
The singer maintained that the malfunction was not intentional.
Janet Jacksonis now streaming on Lifetime.
