LaToya Jackson Makes the Rounds

LaToya Jackson was on Wendy Williams on March 3, Access Hollywood in the morning of March 4, and the Joy Behar Show the same evening.

Essentially, she talked about the same stuff:

Her theory on Michael Jackson’s death: “My brother was murdered, he was actually murdered … and Dr. Conrad Murray was simply the fall guy ….” She said “They say it was a homocide.” Not a typo — she says it like it’s two separate words like homo sapiens, and not like the actual word, homicide. She claims that Michael told her that he believed someone was trying to do him in about 3 years ago. We didn’t even know that LaToya and Michael were talking 3 years ago.

“Considered the family traitor for declaring Michael guilty during his 1993 child molestation case, La Toya, 53, has little contact with her siblings today (though she was one of the first to appear at the UCLA Medical Center the day Michael died). After failing to hit it big as a solo artist, La Toya embarked on a modeling career in the 1980s that landed her multiple Playboy photo spreads. Her latest stint in the spotlight was supposed to be a cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno,’ but filmmakers cut her reportedly less-than-flattering scene out of respect for Michael’s family following his death.” (from “Who’s Who in Michael Jackson’s Bizarre World,” CBS)

On her upcoming appearance on “Celebrity Apprentice,” where she is on team ASAP, she says “you’ll see Joe Jackson coming out.” Of her. We can’t wait. Joy said it’s like “The View” on testosterone.

Also on the Joy Behar Show, LaToya said there will be a lot of drama on “Celebrity Apprentice,” but she’s used to a peaceful life (now, presumably because on Wendy she talked about getting her ass whupped regularly when she was married to Jack Gordon). They talked about Starr Jones or rather around the topic. LaToya is very cagey about revealing too much because Donald Trump doesn’t want her blabbing. She did say that “you’re going to see tears,” but they’re not going to be hers. It’s going to be better than when Joan Rivers was on and she also let a tidbit slip that Starr Jones uses NeNe Leakes “as a puppet.”

On her father’s alleged abuse, LaToya says that she was only spanked once for staying back in kindergarten. She was kept back, even though her grades were “tops,” because she didn’t speak in school, but “after that beating, I spoke,” she giggled.

“So your father actually thought that if he hit you, you were going to talk,” Joy said with a horrified look on her face.

“Well you know what it is, Joy,” LaToya said, “and I have to be honest with you — back then, in those days, everybody spanked their children basically, and that’s the way people grew up in a lot of the households ….”

“Now that we have a ‘child abuse rule,’ people don’t do it anymore,” she added.

Joy Behar acts like it’s such a foreign concept to her (even after her extensive coverage of “The Hot Sauce Mom”). She says that parents who do it look like “they’re enjoying it.”

LaToya’s sister, Janet recently revealed in her memoir, True You, that she was hit by Joe Jackson with a belt. LaToya confirmed that Michael was spanked, too, and, yes — with a belt. “Yeah, you would get a spanking with a belt,” LaToya said.

Just to show you that LaToya is being honest, here is a youtube with Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole singing Harry’s 1959 novelty song “Mama Look a Boo Boo.” Harry says the song was voted by the Parent-Teachers Association of America “as the song that single-handedly did most to eliminate juvenile delinquency.”

The song was originally recorded by Lord Melody in 1956, but Harry Belafonte brought it to the American pop charts where it went to No. 11, so, yeah, no one was horrified — they loved it (and wasn’t Joy Behar a teacher then?).

Here’s the part he’s talking about:

John (yes pa) come here a moment, bring the belt, you’re much too impudent
John says it’s James who started first, James tells the story in reverse
I grab my belt from off me waist
You should hear them screaming ’round the place.