Wade said that he considered responding with his standard joke. His brother, Shane, was visiting and told Wade that his wife had just had a dream in which Wade told her that Jackson had abused him. The day he told his therapist, he also told his family, almost by accident. Finally, he decided to see a therapist and realized that if he was going to understand why he was struggling, he would have to talk about the abuse.
LEAVING NEVERLAND PART 2 PUTLOCKERS PROFESSIONAL
It struck not long after his son was born, at a moment when he had reached a new level of professional success, having been hired to direct a big budget feature film. And I danced.”īefore Robson could tell his family about the abuse, he fought through a severe depression. “‘Oh thank God, he can’t hurt any more children!’ Those were my thoughts. “I danced when I heard that he died,” Stephanie Safechuck said of Jackson. (His doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.) Jackson was found not guilty of all the charges against him.įour years later, he died at the age of 50 from a mix of powerful drugs he had been administered for sleep deprivation. Because in my mind, my whole life would be over.” “The idea of this truth coming out and Amanda knowing about it,” Robson said of the woman he would eventually marry, “and my family knowing about it, and everybody in the entertainment business, in my career knowing about it, I mean, was just a ridiculous idea that was never going to happen in my mind. He said that he wishes now he had been at a place where he could have told the truth. At that point in his life, he was a successful choreographer in his early 20s working with some of the biggest acts in the world, like ’N Sync and Britney Spears. Robson said he was reluctant at first, but he did testify. He said that was the last time he and Jackson spoke. Jackson asked again toward the end of the trial, but Safechuck still refused. He said that Jackson responded by threatening him, saying he had the best lawyers in the world, but Safechuck said he stood firm. “I was kind of breaking, like having a nervous breakdown,” Safechuck said. Jackson asked Safechuck to testify on his behalf. But this time, child molestation charges were filed and he was brought to trial. One of them refused to help Jackson at his trial. The next day, he said, Jackson told Robson to get rid of his underwear because it might contain evidence. Joy Robson, Wade’s mother, said she took that as a sign that there had been no truth to the accusations, that the boy’s family had just been out for money.Ī couple of years later, Robson said, Jackson summoned him one day, and then had sex with him. Jackson reached a $23 million settlement in 1994 with the family of his accuser, who then declined to testify. “If anyone ever found out that we were doing any of these sort of things, these sexual things, that he and I would go to jail for the rest of our lives. “As soon as the cop started asking me these questions, the first thing that came to mind for me was everything that Michael started saying to me when I was 7,” said Robson, who was 11 at the time. They told their families that Jackson had never touched them and said the same to law enforcement officials. In 1993, Jackson was investigated after a 13-year-old boy accused him of abuse, and both Safechuck and Robson spoke up for Jackson. Here are some other key takeaways from the second half of the documentary: The men said they felt pressure to defend Jackson. Many Jackson fans have risen to his defense on Twitter, often noting how both men previously testified that the singer had never abused them, a point the men address in Part 2. “Michael Jackson was and always will be 100 percent innocent of these false allegations.” “The facts don’t lie, people do,” the family said in a statement. Playing out against the backdrop of our collective experience, the film documents the value of breaking a long-held silence, even when it implicates a powerful, revered figure.Jackson’s family and estate have denied all the allegations against him. Through gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a portrait of sustained exploitation, deception and the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their abuse only once they each had had a young son of their own. Their families were unaware of the manipulation and abuse he would subject the boys to over a period of years. In separate but parallel stories, James Safechuck (10) and Wade Robson (7) were each befriended by Jackson, who invited them into his singular, fairy-tale world as his career reached its peak. When allegations of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson involving young boys surfaced in 1993, many found it hard to believe that the King of Pop could be guilty of such unspeakable acts. “Hard to watch, tougher to ignore, impossible to forget.” - ROLLING STONE
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