September 06, (THEWILL) – Unknown to many, late king of pop, Michael Jackson, had a fourth sister besides Rebbie, Janet and Latoya. Her name is Joh’Vonnie Jackson.
The reason she wasn’t in the public eye like the rest of the Jacksons was because she was hidden away, kept secret for years, unable to become part of the Jackson family.
For most of her life, she was treated like an outsider by the famous family.
She was also reportedly humiliated by Michael, who allegedly loathed her because of their father’s devotion to her over the rest of his children.
Undoubtedly, this caused her a lot of pain.
The reason she was treated like an outsider may not be unconnected to the fact that her mother, Cheryl Terrell, was a secret lover of Joe, the patriarch of the Jackson family for 25 years.
Efforts by Joe to integrate Joh’Vonnie into his family life, proved futile.
Although she has met every single last one of the Jackson family, but for some reason there has always been something stopping them from accepting her.
With the exception of Katherine, the matriarch of the Jackson family and Rebbie, who reached out to her when she lost her mother in 2014, her other half siblings really do not care.
Now almost 50 years old, born the day after Michael’s 16th birthday, Joh’Vonnie revealed that she had the hardest childhood for being labelled an outcast by her siblings.
She has detailed all of these and more in her memoir, ‘Bastard Child’. Ironically, her sister, Latoya, wrote a book, years back titled ‘Growing Up in the Jackson Family’ where the singer wrote that her mother Katherine had referred to Joh’Vonnie as a bastard child.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
