According to the doc, this was to occur during their separate appearances at that year’s Grammys, scheduled just a week after the Super Bowl event.
Through this, it eventually narrows on Timberlake’s role in the halftime event.
But it also examines Timberlake’s behavior ahead of, during and after the controversy, featuring several clips of the former N’SYNC member making objectifying comments about Jackson in the lead-up and aftermath of the Super Bowl event and illustrating how his career took off as Jackson’s came to a screeching halt.According to the doc, Timberlake’s after-show responses coincided with reports from a Super Bowl stage manager that Jackson — who Frattini says was on a plane back to L.A.
“Here we are trying to ask the person who it happened to — because it happened to her — and she was gone,” Frattini saysThe doc doesn’t offer any clear conclusion on what Jackson was feeling in that moment or whether it was a planned performance element — the singer declined to comment, as did Timberlake and Moonves“Now, if there was a blacklist locally, in Salt Lake City for example, because the program manager there knew his audience was offended by what Janet did on Super Bowl Sunday, that’s entirely conceivable.”