Jackson calls gaffe at game accidental

Echoing her on-stage partner, Janet Jackson says her breast exposure during the Super Bowl halftime show was a “costume accident.”

“It was not intentional. It was a costume accident,” Jackson tells Ebony magazine for its April issue in her first interview since the now-infamous Feb. 1 performance.

“It was an accident,” she says. “That was basically it.”

Justin Timberlake has said that when he reached for Jackson’s top, exposing her right breast covered only in a sun-shaped nipple shield, a “wardrobe malfunction” occurred.