Bowie offered MJ stardust

GROWING up with the Jackson 5 for brothers, Janet Jackson got used to partying with celebrities at a very young age.

After the famous family moved from a twobedroom house in Gary, Ind., to a 3-acre home in LA in 1971, they regularly played host to stars like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Sammy Davis Jr.

The documentary “Janet Jackson,” on Lifetime and A&E tonight, revisits a night when one Starman showed up with his own party favors.

“I remember one of the parties that we had, [David] Bowie came,” Janet says in the twopart miniseries. “And I guess to get away from everyone, he was looking for a little room.”

As the late legend went in search of a private spot to indulge, he ran into two of the Jackson brothers. “Michael and I are sitting in one of the other rooms away from the party,” says Randy Jackson. “So Bowie walks in and . . . he offered us some of what he was doing to get high.” He adds, “We just looked at each other . . . We didn’t know what it was, but it was like, ‘Nah, no thank you.’ ”

But the Jacksons weren’t so welcome by everyone in the white neighborhood of Encino, The Post’s Chuck Arnold reports.

“They had this petition going around so that we wouldn’t be in the neighborhood,” Janet says in the film. “I remember walking down the street and being called the N-word . . . [Being] told to go back home to the country. Feeling it at school with some of the teachers, and some of the kids touching your hair ’cause your hair was different from theirs.”

Still, under the strict rule of their father, Joe, the Jackson kids — Janet being the youngest of nine — thrived in the face of that racism. “My brothers and sisters would always tell me [that was] why my father was so strict,” she says.

Janet was managed by her dad early in her career. After her brothers fired him, he set out to make Janet an even bigger star than Michael. She struck out on her own for 1986’s “Control,” her big breakthrough record.