Janet Jackson has revealed that a wave of grief hit her right before she was about to perform a tribute to her late brother, Michael, at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.
The singer, who lost her brother in June, said that the realization that he was really gone just hit her during the last few months.
"It hit me before I was about to do the performance, and it hit me when we were in rehearsal," Jackson said of her brother's death. "There was a huge image of him on this screen, and I started to cry. I had to step away."
Although the King of Pop passed away several months ago, now that the initial shock has worn off, Jackson said she knows the grief process will take time.
"You know, a day doesn't go by where you don't think about him. It's always there, in every sense," she added. "But it will get better. It's not easy, but I know with time it will get easier. But it will never be easy. It's my brother."
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