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Janet Jackson Wished Him to Take AIDS Take a look at, Ebook Claims
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Tupac Shakur had a promiscuous popularity within the early Nineteen Nineties … and a much-anticipated new guide claims it drove Janet Jackson to ask the studio to have him examined for AIDS earlier than a kissing scene.
Jeff Pearlman — a famous biographer — has written a brand new guide titled “Solely God Can Decide Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur” … and, in it, he touches on Tupac’s time filming the 1993 flick “Poetic Justice” with Janet.
Based on Pearlman, the 2 did not get alongside a lot … with Janet a consummate skilled on-set whereas Tupac had an inclination to come back and go as he happy.
Days earlier than a kissing scene between Pac and Janet, Pearlman writes, Tupac apparently stored speaking about “overwhelming Jackson along with his lips and mouth” … and, finally, Steve Nicolaides — a producer on the film — was referred to as to her trailer.
Nicolaides tells Pearlman Janet — sitting together with her then-fiancé René Elizondo Jr. — expressed concern about Tupac’s playboy persona … and he says she instructed him she did not “wish to swap saliva with him till I’m actually positive that he’s wholesome and clear.”
Steve dutifully went to Pac with the request … who apparently responded with a NSFW tirade aimed toward Jackson earlier than flat-out refusing to take the take a look at.
Nicolaides says he would not blame Janet for asking in regards to the take a look at … AIDS was nonetheless working rampant within the early Nineteen Nineties — and, he admits Pac had garnered a rep, so it wasn’t essentially the most unreasonable request.
The film nonetheless did fairly nicely regardless of the strain … making $27 million on the field workplace in opposition to a funds about half that measurement — and, it is nonetheless a fan-favorite to at the present time.
“Solely God Can Decide Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur” … and, we’re positive this Janet Jackson story is simply the tip of the iceberg.