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Janet Jackson still expects her late brother Michael to call her.

The 'All For You' singer - the younger sister of the 'Thriller' star, who died last June from acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 - says her grief gets easier with every day that passes, but she would do anything to hear him speak again.

She said: "It gets sad sometimes because, I don't know, you think your phone is going to ring and you hear that voice calling your name. But, yeah, life goes on and everybody grieves differently. And every day is different. Some days it's much easier than others."

Janet, 43, also revealed Michael's untimely passing made her realise she needed to make changes in her life.

She said in an interview with Wonderland magazine: "A lot of people in this industry have a lot of 'yes' people. That I can tell you I do not have. A lot has changed in my life this year, a lot of changes, I think I'm kind of heading in a different direction for sure."

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More music notes...Janet Jackson has spent lots of money on her niece and nephews this Christmas, say sources. Paris, 12, Prince Michael I, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, whose father Michael Jackson died earlier this year, will reportedly spend Christmas Day with his sister Janet.
"It was to be a quiet, somber holiday this year but Janet has stepped in to make it just like Michael did - fun," a UK magazine quotes a friend of the family as saying.
"Michael loved Christmas. He was like a big kid and now Janet has taken that on. She must have spent thousands on trees, decorations and the kind of toys Michael would have loved to be fooling around with on Christmas morning."

Janet Jackson has revealed that she broke down before her recent MTV Video Music Awards tribute to her late brother Michael.

Jackson, 43, appeared at the ceremony in September and admitted that she felt overwhelmed by the enormity of what she was about to do just before she went on stage.
She said: "It hit me before I was about to do the performance, and it hit me when we were in rehearsal. There was a huge image of him on this screen, and I started to cry. I had to step away."

She added: "You know, a day doesn't go by where you don't think about him. It's always there, in every sense. But it will get better. "It's not easy, but I know with time it will get easier. But it will never be easy. It's my brother."

Janet Jackson said the realisation of her brother Michael's death only hit her three months after his death.

The 'Make Me' singer said she had avoided everything that could remind her of her Thriller' singer brother after he suddenly passed away in June, until she was about to perform at the

MTV Video Music Awards in September, when she saw a huge picture in tribute to him.

Janet, 43, said: "It hit me before I was about to do the performance, and it hit me when we were in rehearsal.

"There was a huge image of him on this screen, and I started to cry. I had to step away."

She also said that she is continuing to come to terms with the singer's death, of acute intoxication by the anesthetic Propofol, but that she feels in future things will get easier.

Janet Jackson and Lady Gaga are the latest stars to be confirmed for an appearance on The X Factor. The two performers will sing live on the results show on December 6, just weeks after Susan Boyle and Mariah Carey appeared on the show but pre-recorded their tracks.

Jackson's performance will be her only UK TV appearance this year and will follow the hit reality show by singing at Capital Radio's Jingle Bell Ball on the same night.

Other singers lined up to sing on The X Factor in the next few weeks include Rihanna and Alicia Keys.
Whitney Houston and Michael Buble are among some of the performers who have already appeared.

Janet Jackson is still upset her family were unable to get her brother Michael off drugs.

The 'All For You' singer says she and the rest of the Jackson family knew the late pop legend - who died in June from acute Propofol intoxication - was abusing prescription drugs but their attempts at an intervention were unsuccessful.

When quizzed about her sibling's drug use, she said: "Those are the things you do when you love someone. You can't just let them continue on that way. And we did a few times but we weren't very successful."

Despite the family's best efforts, Janet claims Michael - who had a cocktail of prescription drugs in his system when he passed away - wouldn't accept that he had a substance abuse problem.

She added to 'Good Morning America' host Robin Roberts: "He understood our efforts were out of love, because of caring. But when people are like that they tend to be in denial. But I wish he could answer that question for you and not me."

Janet is not the first member of the Jackson family to reveal they had tried to get the 'Thriller' singer off drugs.

Tito - who was a member of the Jackson 5 along with his sibling - accused his brother's employees of helping him obtain and use prescription drugs against the wishes of his family.

Janet Jackson has confirmed she has split from boyfriend Jermaine Dupri.

The singer - who was first rumoured to have separated from the music executive in July - admitted she didn't keep in touch with any of her ex-lovers apart from Jermaine during a US radio interview.

Speaking on Atlanta's 'Bert Show', Janet said: "I'm not the type of girl that stays in touch with your ex like that. But Jermaine is one of my best friends. I love him to death. We're still connected. We're still good friends. We still talk."

Janet, 43, was reported to have ended her seven-year relationship with Jermaine, 37, in the summer in the wake of her pop superstar brother Michael's shock death in June.

At the time, it was claimed the 'All For You' singer decided to call time on the romance because she felt suffocated by her lover.

A mutual friend of the pair said: "You shouldn't mix business with pleasure. Janet felt their lives were too crossed and they should have kept things separate."

Pop star Janet Jackson holds Michael Jackson's personal doctor responsible for her brother's sudden death and has told ABC News that a day does not go by when she doesn't think about her late sibling.

"He was the one that was administering," Janet Jackson said about Houston-based physician Dr. Conrad Murray. "I think he is responsible."

Murray, who was hired to treat Michael Jackson in the months before Jackson died on June 25 of a drug overdose, is currently a target in the manslaughter investigation of the "Thriller" singer's death.

Since June, Los Angeles County coroner officials have said the powerful anesthetic propofol, which is used in surgery, and the sedative lorazepam, were the primary drugs responsible for Jackson's death. Police have referred the case to prosecutors to determine if criminal charges should be filed.

Janet Jackson has remained mostly quiet about her brother's death, but she spoke with ABC television journalist Robin Roberts in an interview set to air Wednesday night on the network's show "In the Spotlight."

"It's been a tough year," Jackson told Roberts, in excerpts posted on ABC News' website on Monday. "You have your days where it's just really -- it's hard to believe. And a day doesn't go by that I don't think about him."

(Reporting and writing by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Steve Gorman)

A new Janet Jackson greatest hits album, "Number Ones," will hit U.S. stores November 17.

The 34 track collection on A&M/UMe includes 33 of Jackson's hits plus one new track, "Make Me," produced by Jackson and Rodney Jerkins.

The set includes all 10 of her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles and her 16 toppers on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. According to A&M/UMe, Jackson has sold 65 million albums worldwide.

"Number Ones" will be the singer's second best-of package in the U.S., following 1995's "Design of a Decade 1986/1996." That effort peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold 2.4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Outside the U.S., it will be titled "Janet Jackson: The Best," and be available November 23.

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)

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"Tori went to the hospital last night for abdominal pain. They released her last night ... She wasn't feeling better today so she returned to the hospital for more tests." Her husband, Dean McDermott who recently went to an ER for a day with a stomach virus, wrote on his Twitter page: "T is in the hospital now with severe stomach pains. We're trying to get her comfortable." The couple has two children.

Janet Jackson will wear black for a year to mourn the death three months ago of her brother Michael. Jackson.  More...Michael Jackson fans lined the streets of Los Angeles earlier hoping to grab tickets to the documentary movie This Is It.
Michael Jackson: This Is It sold out 3,000 tickets to its advance screenings in just two hours after midnight. Some fans had started lining up three days ahead of the sale.
The advance screening will take place on 14 screens simultaneously at an LA cinema on the eve of the movie's nationwide opening, on October 28. The documentary is drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage taken in the lead-up to Jackson's comeback finale tour in the UK. It is directed by Kenny Ortega. Jackson died suddenly on June 25.