JANET JACKSON REMEMBERS MICHAEL

Singer Janet Jackson has recalled the last time she saw her brother Michael alive, at a family gathering on May 14.
And she says she still cannot fully believe that the King of Pop is dead, at the age of 50.
“It's really hard to believe he's passed,” she told Harper's Bazaar magazine.
Remembering sharing a Thai meal with Michael and other relatives, she went on: “We had so much fun that day. He would laugh so loud he would just start crying.
“We kept calling each other after and saying how great it was.”
Janet, 43, who will pay tribute to her brother at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, talked about the thriller singer's sense of humour, and remembered
“He loved to laugh,” she said. “Sometimes his humour would be corny, sometimes dry. He loved The Three Stooges, he loved slapstick, he loved Eddie Murphy in his silly comedies.
“He loved to have fun. He loved to play.”
She also looked back on her teen years, when she and her big brother looked after each other, and said she has inherited her mother's inner strength, which helps her deal with the tragedy.
“I always wanted to have my mother's inner strength, but I didn't know if it was really there” she said. “Now at least I know that I can step up to the plate and not crumble when I'm needed.
“When it comes to something like this that is so, so serious, so painful, so traumatic, I can handled.”
She went on: “He was always very protective of me.
“When I was 14 years old I would shop for him, washed his clothes cleaned his room.
“When mother would go out of town, she's say, 'I'm leaving you in charge, take care of Mike.' I would head home from school, see what he needed then go straight to the store.”
Janet was in Atlanta filming Why Did I Get Married Too? when she heard about Michael's death on June 25, and flew home to Los Angeles to comfort his children, Prince Michael I, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, seven.
The children are being raised by their grandmother and Janet said: “They're with all their cousins. That family love, that will keep them going.”