Janet Jackson on Piers Morgan Tonight

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Janet Jackson opens up about her brother Michael, her career and her new book, "True You" at 9 ET Tuesday on "Piers Morgan Tonight."

Los Angeles [[CNN) -- Janet Jackson would bang her head against a wall because she felt "so unattractive," the pop star told CNN's Piers Morgan.

Jackson, in an interview set to air on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday, talked about her struggles with weight and body image over the years, her relationship with her father and dealing with the passing of her brother Michael.

"There was a time when I was so down and felt so unattractive and it lasted for a very, very long time," Jackson said, "that I used to -- I used to bang my head against the wall."

The banging would be hard and "the person that I was with, my ex-husband at the time, I mean, he'd have to stop me," she said.

Jackson, 44, is promoting her new book, "True You," which focuses on her lifelong self-image and self-esteem struggles.



Janet Jackson: My father and I She did talk about her most famous brother, Michael Jackson, calling him "very sweet, very gentle, incredibly smart, always about love."

"He knew who he was," she said.

Morgan also talked to her about Joe Jackson, the father known for using stern discipline to keep his large family on a path toward entertainment stardom.

The one time she called him "Dad," he corrected her.

"You call me Joseph," she said her father told her. "I'm Joseph to you."

Jackson said she felt sad when she was younger that her relationship with her father was not closer, but it is a feeling that has passed.

"It would have been nice," she said. "I would go over to a friend's house when mother would let me go, and I'd see my friends, the relationship with their father, how they call him dad and sit all in their lap."

Janet Jackson sat near her father in court for several days last month when her family attended the preliminary hearing for Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged in Michael Jackson's death.

[nomis]

im interested in reading the book..Michael used to call her 'donkey' all the time and La Toya was quite a looker in her day and that didnt help either..In a way Janet was lucky that Joseph was so caught up in her Brothers management that she managed to slip away to solo success..

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im interested in reading the book..Michael used to call her 'donkey' all the time and La Toya was quite a looker in her day and that didnt help either..In a way Janet was lucky that Joseph was so caught up in her Brothers management that she managed to slip away to solo success..

WAsn't Joseph her manager up to the Control days? Didn't she fire him because he didn't approve of the direction Jam and Lewis took her in with Control?

[nomis]

yes Joe was manager for her first two A&M albums but he wasnt hands on per se the way he was with The Victory tour etc but the split with Janet wasnt completley ammicable he still recieved a percentage of Control and Rythmn Nation Lps although he had nothing to do with them..working with jam and Lewis was one dispute between the two but Janet wasnt happy in general with Joes skills and he had given her first husband hell which I think did more damage than a producer choice..all was well by 91 though as she and Michael bought Joe a sailing boat and in Michaels home video of his birthday there seems to be no tension between Joe and janet..

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Janet Jackson is not the idiot many have privately claimed her to be. She is an amazing woman who has been through quite a lot of mess - and kept it all very private.

Bravo Janet Jackson.