Janet Apologizes, Says Super Bowl Stunt Went Too Far

MTV.com ^ | 02.02.2004 | Robert Mancini

[yhwhsman]

Janet Apologizes, Says Super Bowl Stunt Went Too Far

One day after Janet Jackson's shocking Super Bowl halftime performance, the singer took responsibility for the breast-baring incident and said she never intended the stunt to go as far as it did.

"The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals," Jackson said in a statement released Monday (February 2). "MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended — including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL."

Jackson's performance shocked onlookers when Justin Timberlake — who was performing with her — pulled off a piece of Jackson's costume, revealing her right breast.

MTV, which produced the halftime show for CBS, issued an apology shortly after the show, calling the incident "unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional and ... inconsistent with assurances we had about the content of the performance" (see "Janet, Justin, MTV Apologize For Super Bowl Flash").

Timberlake also apologized on Sunday, calling the incident "not intentional and regrettable."

On Sunday, Jackson's reps told MTV News that the singer apologized for the move, but the singer issued no public statement on the incident until Monday.

For more on the weekend festivities, check out MTV Super Bowl Weekend.

—Robert Mancini

[NYCVirago]

Haven't they done enough damage with their halftime show? Now they've got to insult our intelligence with these phony excuses?

[rhombus]

I'm grow weary of elites who try to shock me and call it art. It's childish and does nothing to progress the art.

[steve86]

The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance

A new term from the world of Hollytrash.

[Hollywoodghost]

Just you watch! Now all sorts of women are going to have their nipples pieces to wear little nippleshields like JJ.

[cajun-jack]

you actually know women that wear pasties??? can I hang out with you on the weekend?? lol

[Diddle E. Squat]

Bingo! The headline should be "MTV Says It Didn't Inhale"

[null and void]

Thank God it was Janet Jackson and not Janet Reno...

[hole_n_one]

I know you're smarter than that.

[cmsgop]

I agree, nobody's story matches....

[1rudeboy]

Timberlake also apologized on Sunday, calling the incident "not intentional and regrettable."

Regrettable? Yes.
Not intentional? No.

[BlueAngel]

Liar, liar pants on fire.

O'Reilly just mentioned that the folks from the hotel St. Regis, where Janet stayed, said that she was a pain in the butt. Making unreasonable demands. The entire Jackson family is so isolated from the real world. All they can do is spin and spin the idiotic mistakes that they make. Its a shame.

[null and void]

Fixed your typo: Any publicity pubicity is good publicity.

[Political Junkie Too]

It was not my intention that it go as far as it did.

It's called "playing with fire." Sometimes you get burned.

-PJ

[CFC__VRWC]

A lot of people initially said that Janet had a pastie or a tassle on her right breast, but as evidenced by the picture on Drudge, it is apparent that that "pastie" is merely something held in place on her nipple by a nipple piercing (OUCH!). What a dirtbag.

Yeah. The hell of it is, I'll bet five bucks that today, tattoo and piercing parlors all over the country were overrun with 13 to 20-year-old girls demanding that they be fitted for "one of those nipple rings like Janet Jackson had."

[NYCVirago]

A new term from the world of Hollytrash.

First it was "wardrobe malfunction," now it's a "costume reveal." It's funny, Janet and Justin could show her naked breast to the nation, but they can't even bring themselves to describe what they did without resorting to euphemisms which don't even describe what happened. What are they, some kind of prudes or something? ;)

[tortoise]

Much ado about nothing in any case.

[2nd Amendment]

This has been devastating to me! The next thing you know someone may find out Brittany isn't a virgin . .

[tet68]

? Now they've got to insult our intelligence with these phony excuses?

I heard a guy call in on Neal Boortz's show, he said during the end of the first quarter, they played a promo for the halftime show and in it Jackson also had a bare breast.
Didn't see it, gave my TV away years ago.
Personally, I think she and MTV and all the performers should be fined........Janet the Love Sponge indeed!

[missyme]

Maybe she wanted everyone to know she wasn't Michael in drag...

[yhwhsman]

Thank God it was Janet Jackson and not Janet Reno...

The mental image your post just made burned out my retinas. LOL