Pop icon Janet Jackson echoed the widespread misinformation that has plagued the U.S. presidential campaign, saying she had heard that Vice President Kamala Harris is not black.

The remarks were published by The Guardian on Saturday and granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes the European stops of her recent tour. Jackson is also promoting a residency that begins in December at Resorts World Las Vegas.

Jackson’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday evening.

Jackson sang about wanting to “break color barriers” in his 1989 single “Rhythm Nation.” The interviewer said she was inspired to ask Jackson about his opinion of Harris as a black woman who could serve as the first female U.S. president.

“Do you know what they allegedly said?” Jackson is quoted as saying during the interview in her adopted home of London. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”

The author wrote that she responded with a correction, telling Jackson that although Harris was of Native American descent, she was also black.

“(Harris’) father is white,” Jackson is quoted as saying. “That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t seen the news in a couple of days. I was told that they found out her father is white.”

The vice president’s campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Jackson’s comments on Saturday evening.

In July, former President Donald Trump, who is running against Harris in the battle to succeed President Joe Biden, said the vice president “turned black” for political reasons after previously “only promoting Native American heritage.”

“I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she happened to become black,” Trump said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in 2024.

That same evening, Harris portrayed Trump’s comments about her background as part of a strategy to turn Americans against each other for his benefit.

“It was the same old show – the division and the disrespect,” Harris said at an event in Houston. “And let me just say, the American people deserve better.”

Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in southern India. Her father, Donald J. Harris, an economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, was born in Jamaica and is black.

In an interview with The Guardian, Jackson also expressed his hopelessness regarding the presidential election.

“I think there will be chaos in any case,” Jackson is quoted as saying.

In her answer to a question about the album “Rhythm Nation,” the singer also touched on the topic of child sex trafficking. It’s about “making a difference in the life of a child, a teenager,” she said.

“There’s all this crap with child trafficking and sex trafficking, you know what I mean, that wasn’t as prevalent back then,” she said, adding that sex trafficking “has really come to light now because it’s like a billion-dollar business and all that crap.”

The star survived his allegedly abusive father, Joe Jackson, who died in 2018. His brother Michael Jackson accused him of physical abuse and his sister La Toya once claimed that he sexually abused her, but she later retracted the claim.

Jackson is promoting tour dates, but she may also launch a campaign to bolster her legacy, which may have been tarnished in the shadow of Michael Jackson’s pop royalty and shunned after Justin Timberlake exposed her nipple during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, The Guardian reported.

To date, she has amassed ten number one hits, five Grammy Awards and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.