In 1991, La Toya wrote in her memoir that Joe was physically abusive to his sons and that he sexually abused her and her sister Rebbie.
La Toya Jackson was the first of the Jacksons to speak out on the passing of their patriarch, Joe Jackson.
“I will always love you,” La Toya, 62, tweeted Wednesday.
“You gave us strength, you made us one of the most famous families in the world,” she added. “I am extremely appreciative of that, I will never forget our moments together and how you told me how much you cared. #RIP Joe Jackson.”
Joe passed away early Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
He was 89 years old.
In 1991, La Toya wrote in her memoir that Joe was physically abusive to his sons and that he sexually abused her and her sister Rebbie.
“When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not tonight. Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy,” La Toya wrote.
Rebbie denied that Joe raped her, but said he touched her inappropriately; Joe denied all allegations of sexual impropriety.
They repaired their relationship later in life and heavily publicized their reconciliation.
In her memorial tweet, La Toya included a YouTube link to a 2013 scene from “ Life with La Toya,” in which Joe joins her for a business lunch, where they discussed the 2009 death of Michael Jackson — and in which La Toya calls Joe “dad” for the first time in decades.
