Jermaine Jackson backtracks on letter challenging MJ's will

New York, August 2 (ANI): In a bid to put an end to the family feud, Jermaine Jackson is disowning his signature on a letter challenging the legality of his late brother Michael's will.

Michael Jackson's older brother, a key player in last week's bizarre Jackson family feud, has disowned his signature on a letter challenging the King of Pop's estate executors.

"After much soul-searching, it is clearly time for us to live by Michael's words about love not war," the New York Daily News quoted him as saying in an "olive branch" posted to his Twitter account Wednesday.

"I rescind my signature from the letter which was sent to the Estate, and which should never have gone public," he said.

The 57-year-old singer said he still holds "deep reservations" about many issues involving his late brother's lucrative estate but will only pursue them in "private dialogue, not public conflict" going forward.

According to him, his primary concern remains his mother.

"No one on the outside has a clue about the stresses and pressures she has been under long before recent events and I, like everyone in the family, adore the ground she walks on," he tweeted.

"We are also still raw from the loss of Michael three years ago. The ever-present grief has haunted me with questions about whether we stepped off him too much or whether we did enough to help when a corporate world surrounded him.

"So when it comes to the well-being of loved ones, and especially our mother, we are perhaps understandably and unapologetically over-protective," he added.

Jermaine along with siblings Randy, Janet and Rebbie whisked beloved matriarch Katherine Jackson away to a secluded Arizona spa last month and subsequently released a letter accusing Michael's executors of fraud. (ANI)