After postponing a string of tour dates because of migraines earlier this month, Janet Jackson is back - and thanking fans for their support.

“I want to thank you for all your messages and all your love and support when I wasn’t feeling very well,” the singer said in a YouTube video shot by her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri before her show in Houston Tuesday. “I’m a lot better now.”

Jackson, 42, also showed her silly side: After pretending to put rouge on Dupri’s cheek as he sat in her makeup chair, she dismissed rumors that the two had split.

“Baby, they say you broke up with me because I threw up on you,” a laughing Dupri said as he held the camera.

“How lame is that?” Jackson deadpanned. “Because you threw up on me … Well, there’s no real love there, is it?”

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Janet Jackson has postponed three more shows because of an undisclosed illness that had her hospitalized last week.

The singer, 42, postponed a Saturday-night show in Greensboro, N.C., after a local doctor said it was “evident” she had not fully recovered, Jackson’s publicist said.

Other shows put on hold were Sunday’s in Atlanta and another on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale. Jackson - who is on her first North American tour in seven years - previously canceled concerts in Boston and Philadelphia on Wednesday and Thursday.

A notice from the organizers of the Greensboro gig suggested fans “hold on to their tickets pending a future announcement regarding the rescheduled date.”

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After much speculation, the cause of Janet Jackson’s mystery illness - which caused her to cancel a string of tour dates - has been revealed.

The 42-year-old was suffering from vestibular migraines, her rep said in a statement, an unusual condition that creates the sensation of vertigo.

But Jackson is now receiving treatment - and she’s anxious to get back on stage.

“%26#91;Janet is%26#93; a world-class entertainer and needs to be at the top of her game to give her fans the show they expect,” manager Kenneth Crear said in the statement. “She’s feeling much better and is ready to hit the road again.”

Jackson’s show at Madison Square Garden, originally slated for Thursday, has been rescheduled for Nov. 1.

New dates for the other postponed concerts are being worked out and will be announced shortly, her rep said.

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Missed her much? Not anymore! Following a string of canceled tour dates, Janet Jackson resumed her Rock Witchu Tour Wednesday night with no clear signs of the vestibular migraines that have sidelined her for the past two weeks.

“It feels so good to be back,” Jackson told the crowd of screaming fans at Washington, D.C.’s Verizon Center in her first performance since September.

Sporting a cream-colored bodysuit with corset and black faux-hawk, Jackson took to the stage with boyfriend Jermaine Dupri watching from the VIP section. The singer, 42, launched into classic hits like “Pleasure Principle,” “Control,” and “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” before moving on to the single “Feedback” from her latest album.

The next show on her tour is scheduled for Friday night in East Rutherford, N.J.

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Janet Jackson has been hospitalized, a rep said Monday.

The singer “got suddenly ill during the sound check” before her concert in Montreal and had to be rushed to the hospital, according to a statement released by W%26W Public Relations.

Jackson, 42, is being monitored at the hospital, and hopes to reschedule the show.

No further information was given about Jackson’s condition.

Janet Jackson postponed two concert dates this week on her nationwide Rock Witchu Tour due to an undisclosed illness, a rep for the singer said Tuesday.

Jackson, 42, has delayed her Wednesday show in Boston and a Thursday performance in Philadelphia until further notice. She will resume her tour Saturday in Greensboro, N.C.

The postponements come a day after the singer suddenly fell ill during a sound check in Montreal and was rushed to the hospital, forcing her to cancel her Monday night show. She was released a couple of hours later. The nature of her illness wasn’t reported.

Janet Jackson has been released from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, according to a hospital rep.

“Yesterday evening she was checked into the Royal Victoria Hospital and left a couple of hours later,” Rebecca Burns, the spokeswoman for the McGill University Health Centre, which operates the hospital, told PEOPLE

Jackson, 42, cancelled her show in Montreal on Monday and was taken to the hospital after she “got suddenly ill” during her sound check, according to a statement from W%26W Public Relations.

Further details of the singer’s condition were not immediately available, and reps for Jackson did not return requests for additional comment.

Jackson has complained of exhaustion, a source close to boyfriend Jermaine Dupri tells PEOPLE. “A 42-year-old body can’t handle what a 22-year-old body can,” says the source. “I can tell you that she’s definitely tired. It was probably exhaustion. She is doing back-to-back, three-hour shows, and her body isn’t the same as it used to be.”

The same night that Jackson was rushed to the hospital, Dupri was spotted in New York City partying at Patron’s Music in Motion Tour featuring TI at Marquee. “If %26#91;Janet’s condition%26#93; was more serious he would’ve rushed to her side,” added the source.

Jackson is due to perform in Boston Wednesday night.

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Nearly two decades after Rhythm Nation, Janet Jackson got back into the groove.

The singer, 42, suffered no wardrobe malfunctions Wednesday, on the first stop of her North American Rock Witchu Tour at the GM Palace in Vancouver. Amid multiple costume changes, Jackson performed 30 hit songs, including “Control,” “Let’s Wait Awhile” and “Rhythm Nation.”

Jackson got rave reviews. The show was a “reminder that she is a trend-setter in her own right, a true diva, and a marvelous performer,” said the Vancouver Sun.

But “The most memorable moment of the show,” writes Marsha Lederman of Canada’s Globe and Mail, “came when Jackson, dressed in a gold and black glam hip hop-inspired track suit (and one gold glove) … listened to the crowd roar its approval and became emotional - really emotional. We’re talking tears. ‘Thank you,’ she said, seeming to really mean it, as she waved her hands, begging the audience to stop.”

The Live Nation-produced tour hits the U.S. on Saturday in Oakland, Calif., and includes stops in Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington D.C., New York and Atlanta.

One of the most infamous moments in Super Bowl history may have seen Janet Jackson bear a lot of flesh - but that doesn’t mean CBS ought to bear a big financial burden, a three-judge panel has ruled.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Monday tossed out the $550,000 that the Federal Communications Commission levied against CBS Corp. for the 2004 nationally televised halftime show that introduced the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” to the world. The court said the FCC had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously.”

Some 90 million Americans were watching when Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Jackon’s bustier as he sang, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song.”
- Michael Y. Park

Though Janet Jackson says she’s “so excited to be able to hit the stage again” on her upcoming North American tour, she’s less than thrilled about her struggles with her label, Island Records.

“I’m trying to figure out a way to say this, but just to say it and to be quite honest, they just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album so I don’t think you’re going to hear another single off this album,” Jackson told the hip-hop Web site SOHH.com. Island released Jackson’s latest album, Discipline, in February.

“It was definitely in my heart to go to Europe and to support this album,” she said. But “it’s about teamwork, it’s not something I can totally do on my own. Unfortunately, things have turned out the way that they have with the differences between the label and myself.”

“It feels great, there is no anxiety,” Jackson said. “I have great friends that always give me so much support and so much love and to be able to feel that night after night … I’ll just be on top of the world.”

An Island Def Jam spokesperson told Billboard that the company “has nothing to do with Janet’s tour” and said of the company’s approach to promoting the album: “Unfortunately we haven’t experienced the results we would have liked with this new album. But we respect and support Janet.”

“Feedback,” the first single off Discipline, which has sold 392,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard.com, reached No. 39 on Billboard’s Hot R%26B Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Note: People.com previously misreported the cancellation of Jackson’s European tour. Her publicist says that overseas dates have yet to be announced.