Michael Jackson's estate responded to LeavingNeverland's Emmy win in a statement to THR: 'For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce.' Read it in full:
on Saturday night. The Dan Reed-directed film — which spans four hours and explores sexual abuse claims made against the late Michael Jackson by former child stars James Safechuck and Wade Robson — premiered in March on HBO.The Hollywood Reporter
. "For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce," it said. "Not one shred of proof supports this completely one-sided, so-called documentary which was made in secrecy and for which not one person outside of the two subjects and their families were interviewed.
" and insisted it "isn't a documentary," while Jackson's family called Reed and the pic's two accusers "opportunists."how much the recognition from the Television Academy meant to him and those who worked on the documentary. aired in March, it has launched many important conversations about child sexual abuse and the grooming that accompanies it.
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