MJ`s secret sister JohVonnie reveals her `snub` pain

London: Michael Jackson`s half-sister has revealed that the pop legend wasn`t warm to her when she met him during a family get together. JohVonnie Jackson, whose mum was a lover of MJ`s dad Joe, is close to her father.

She claims that the Jacksons have shunned her for 35 years but was once invited to the ``Thriller`` hitmaker`s Neverland ranch in 2003 when the clan got together. Also, JohVonnie alleges that she wasn`t allowed to talk to either the late singer or her half-sister Janet when she attended their concerts. "I feel rejected by some of my family. It`s upsetting and hurtful," the Mirror quoted her as saying. Referring to her meeting with the late singer she said: "It was a big moment for me. But Michael was looking at me and seemed cold. He just said, ``Hi`` and then he saw my daughter Yasmine and was fascinated with her." Jackson made a mistake pronouncing her niece``s name and called her ``Jasmine,`` which JohVonnie corrected. She recollected: "He said, ``OK, Yasmine with a Y``, and that was it. He never acknowledged that I was his sister, there was no hug or kiss, not even a handshake. No physical contact at all. "I wanted to embrace him. I thought he would want to go some place quiet and sit and talk with me and ask me about my life and get to know me a little better. "It was very hurtful. He was not interested at all. "With my daughter he was totally different. She got hugs and kisses, everything I didn`t get. I was a little jealous. But there was a bunch of people there and I never did get a chance to speak to Michael properly. Again, there was this theme that I felt shut out." Apparently, JohVonnie spent that night at a nearby hotel and returned to Neverland the next day but she didn`t get to see her iconic half-brother. She said: "Michael was in the main house. Yasmine and Paris were off playing for hours. Paris is such a sweet girl." Though she said she talked to brother Jermaine and sister Rebbie but insists: "None of my other siblings acknowledged me much." ANI