Jermaine Dupri rejected the concept that he “fumbled” Janet Jackson and recommended perhaps she was the one who let one thing worthwhile slip away.

Jermaine Dupri isn’t letting the web write the ultimate phrase on his previous with Janet Jackson, flipping the long-running narrative that he “fumbled” the pop icon after their seven-year relationship.

“I don’t know what a fumble is, though,” Dupri mentioned throughout a current sit-down with Hot 97’s Nessa. “I be trying to figure out why y’all don’t say she fumbled me.”

The Grammy-winning producer dated Jackson from 2002 to 2009. Their relationship ended amid dishonest rumors, however Dupri made it clear he doesn’t see himself because the one who dropped the ball.

“I’m not something that you just let roll down the street,” he mentioned. “I don’t look at it like that. I look at it like it’s a relationship. We was together for eight years.”

Dupri additionally recalled an ungainly second in 2023 when Jackson introduced him onstage throughout her “Together Again” tour cease in Atlanta.

“She ain’t even actually talk to me when she came out,” he mentioned. “I was trying to get her to talk, but she was walking away.”

The two music heavyweights first linked backstage at one in all Jackson’s exhibits in 2002.

Dupri has mentioned he initially stored issues skilled to keep away from mixing enterprise with romance.

Their breakup, confirmed in 2009, got here after Jackson reportedly found Dupri had been untrue.

In her 2022 documentary, Dupri admitted to being “reckless” throughout their time collectively.

“Girls wanted to talk to me more because I was dating her, which was really weird,” he mentioned within the movie. “And I was a man.”

At the time of their break up, Jackson needed to start out a household. Sources near the couple mentioned the overlap of private {and professional} life added pressure to the connection.

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