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

Tupac Shakur had a promiscuous status within the early 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 “Only God Can Judge 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 accordance with Pearlman, the 2 did not get alongside a lot … with Janet a consummate skilled on-set whereas Tupac had an inclination to return and go as he happy.

Days earlier than a kissing scene between Pac and Janet, Pearlman writes, Tupac apparently saved speaking about “overwhelming Jackson with his lips and mouth” … and, finally, Steve Nicolaides — a producer on the film — was known 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 instructed him she did not “need 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 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 towards a price range about half that measurement — and, it is nonetheless a fan-favorite to at the present time.