Janet Jackson Needed Tupac to Take AIDS Take a look at on ‘Poetic Justice’ Set, New Ebook Claims

Tupac Shakur had a promiscuous status within the early Nineteen Nineties … and a much-anticipated new e book claims it drove Janet Jackson to ask the studio to have him examined for AIDS earlier than a kissing scene.

Jeff Pearlman — a famous biographer — has written a brand new e book titled “Solely God Can Choose Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur” … and, in it, he touches on Tupac’s time filming the 1993 flick “Poetic Justice” with Janet.

In line with Pearlman, the 2 did not get alongside a lot … with Janet a consummate skilled on-set whereas Tupac had a bent to return and go as he happy.

Days earlier than a kissing scene between Pac and Janet, Pearlman writes, Tupac apparently stored speaking about “overwhelming Jackson together with his lips and mouth” … and, finally, Steve Nicolaides — a producer on the film — was referred to as to her trailer.

Nicolaides tells Pearlman Janet — sitting along with her then-fiancé René Elizondo Jr. — expressed concern about Tupac’s playboy persona … and he says she informed him she did not “wish to swap saliva with him till I’m actually certain that he’s wholesome and clear.”

Steve dutifully went to Pac with the request … who apparently responded with a NSFW tirade geared toward Jackson earlier than flat-out refusing to take the take a look at.

Nicolaides says he does not blame Janet for asking concerning the take a look at … AIDS was nonetheless operating rampant within the early Nineteen Nineties — and, he admits Pac had garnered a rep, so it wasn’t essentially the most unreasonable request.

The film nonetheless did fairly nicely regardless of the strain … making $27 million on the field workplace in opposition to a funds about half that dimension — and, it is nonetheless a fan-favorite to at the present time.