Jermaine Jackson On Joe’s Discipline, Plan To Smuggle Michael To Mid East & More
Sept. 13 2011, Published 2:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
From hearing a young Michael Jackson endure a beating from their disciplinarian father, to smuggling Michael out of the country, to staring at Michael's casket, Jermaine Jackson held nothing back in an emotional ABC News interview Tuesday in support of his new book, You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through a Brother's Eyes.
Jermaine said he was excited the first time he heard Jackson family patriarch Joe discipline the young King of Pop with a switch (a thin rod used for whipping) because he knew that behind the discipline, there was care.
“Joe wanted to show us, 'I care about you,’” Jermaine said during a preview which aired on Good Morning America. “Even if I have to whip your butt, I care about you.’”
He continued, "We wouldn't want to be raised any other way, with the way he raised us. It's hard raising nine kids, bringing them from Indiana out here ... that was his whole thing