Janet Jackson has denied rumours that she secretly had a baby with ex-husband James DeBarge in the 1980s.
The 55-year-old singer has put the long-standing conspiracy theory to bed in her documentary on New Lifetime.
In the TV special, the Control hit-maker insists that she 'could never' have kept such a huge secret from her ex-husband James.
"I could never keep a child away from James. How could I keep a child from their father? I could never do that. That’s not right," she insisted.
Michael Jackson's much-loved sister went on to detail when the 'crazy' rumours first started to circulate.
Janet revealed that she first got wind of the theory in 1984 while she was on the Season 4 set of NBC’s Fame.
At the time, Janet was portraying the role Cleo Hewitt.
The singer explained: "A lot of the kids thought I was pregnant ’cause I had gained weight and I had started taking birth control pills.
“And back then, you could pick up weight taking them, and that’s what happened to me, so that rumour started going around.”
As the gossip continued to circulate around the set, really started to get seriously out of hand when Janet's family were soon dragged into the drama.
Convinced fans and fellow co-stars alike spread rumours that Janet was actually the birth mother of her niece Brandi.
The 'ridiculous' rumours suggested that the singer had handed over her baby to her brother to raise in a bid to hide her huge secret.
“First they were saying my niece Brandi was my daughter and that I gave her to my brother Jackie to raise,” Janet recalled.
"And then because my brother Randy’s daughter looks so much like me, they started saying it was Stevanna.”
Even Janet'x ex-husband James weighed in on the drama.
The 58-year-old has claimed over the years that he and Janet did actually welcome a child together.
“I was under the impression that there was no baby, and I wanted to believe it’s not true. But it is,” he told his daughter Kristinia DeBarge in a November 2016 episode of the TV series, Growing Up Hip Hop.
Janet and James tied the knot in September 1984.
But their love-story wasn't to last and the pair split from one another just one-year after their wedding.
While Janet still denies having a 'secret baby' with James, the singer did actually become a mother decades later when she and her third husband, billionaire businessman Wissam Al Mana, welcomed a son, Eissa, in January 2017.
