"You and Macaulay Culkin are the only two people in the world that can save him," she allegedly said. He allegedly threatened the latter to reveal he had perjured himself in 1993, while Robson was convinced to testify by his mother.
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When Jackson faced trial again 10 years later, he again contacted Robson and Safechuck. In 1993, the Robsons defended the pop star on TV, while Safechuck claimed in the documentary that he was forced to commit perjury in the trial to protect the singer. Jackson reached a settlement in the first trial and was acquitted in the latter trial. A decade later, he was accused of abusing child cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo. In 1993, he was accused of having abused Jordy Chandler. Jackson was twice accused of child sexual abuse, in well-publicized trials. But what does that mean, that I liked it? Like, I'm a freak too."Īsked whether he felt anger at his parents for allowing him and his sister to sleep away from them-and in Jackson's bed-at Neverland, Robson replied: "I've definitely gone through multiple stages of anger at my parents and maybe it's done now, but I really can't say." "And the thing is, the abuse didn't feel strange because it was being done by this man that was like a god to me. "He made me feel complicit, that I wanted it at least as much, if not more than him," Robson explained. We were meant to be together and this is us showing each other that we love each other," Robson recalled Jackson telling him in the documentary.īeing allegedly molested by the pop star, however, "didn't feel strange" because of the status Jackson held in Robson's eyes, he reflected during his interview with The Guardian. The claim was echoed by James Safechuck, who also featured in the four-hour, two-part documentary. Jackson described the abuse as "how to show love", but insisted he should never tell anyone. "Michael tried to penetrate me in my anus with his penis, trying for a while, and I guess was able to a bit, but it was really too painful too for me, so he stopped," Robson said in Leaving Neverland. Robson said the abuse ranged from being forced to give oral sex, to penetrative intercourse. "His posters were in my living room, his music in my ears.
"It felt like I'd known him for years," he told The Guardian in 2019, shortly after Leaving Neverland premiered on HBO. Here, Robson claimed he slept in Jackson's bed, while his family stayed in separate guess quarters. Cohen/WireImage/Getty ImagesĪccording to the lawsuit, Robson's mother contacted Jackson's assistant Norma Staikos to set up a meeting with the pop star and they were invited to visit him at his Neverland Ranch in California. Robson alleged Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years. "jermaine - come on," replied actress Rosie O'Donnell, saying she believed the accusers.Wade Robson (L) and JC Chasez during "The Wade Robson Project" Finale at MTV Studios in Los Angeles, California. "So many in media, inc blindly taking #LeavingNeverland at face value, shaping a narrative uninterested in facts, proof, credibility," Jackson's brother Jermaine wrote on Twitter. Some of them raised funds to pay for posters on London buses with the slogan "Facts Don't Lie. Jackson's fans worldwide rallied round the singer using the Twitter hashtag #MJInnocent. Streaming music services Spotify and Apple Music and radio network iHeartRadio did not respond to requests for comment on their policy regarding Jackson following the documentary. "We prefer to observe the situation by removing the songs from our stations, for the time being." "We are attentive to the comments of our listeners, and the documentary released on Sunday evening created reactions," Cogeco Media spokeswoman Christine Dicaire said in a statement. They are supposed to make you happy, make you sing and dance," NH radio editor Arjan Snijders said in a Tuesday broadcast.Ĭanada's Cogeco Media, which owns several radio stations in Montreal, said it had temporarily pulled Jackson's songs from airplay because of the documentary. "I don't think people can listen to the songs the same way anymore. Dutch station NH radio said it would stop playing Jackson's music for a few weeks.
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