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"I wasn't [at the ceremony] because of dealing with hiccups," Jackson said Tuesday on "McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning," a radio show on WJOX-FM of Birmingham, Alabama. "I've had the hiccups since last July. I'm getting a medical procedure done the end of this week, I think, to try to remedy it. I've been busy sitting at the doctor's poking me, shining lights down my throat, probing me every way they can to find out why I've got these hiccups. That's the only reason I wasn't there."
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It’s the children," Jackson said, pausing before each repetition to gather himself.
