The second half of the documentary grapples with the aftermath of Jackson's alleged abuse of two young boys.
Michael Jackson and Wade Robson in"Leaving Neverland." By Bethonie Butler Bethonie Butler Reporter covering television and pop culture Email Bio Follow March 5 at 12:32 PM The second half of “Leaving Neverland,” HBO’s documentary about Michael Jackson, grapples with the aftermath of the singer’s alleged abuse of two young boys — and why Wade Robson and James Safechuck say they kept the abuse a secret into adulthood.
Robson, his mother, Joy, and his sister, Chantal, spoke publicly in support of the singer, who had told them that his accuser’s parents were after money. Robson vehemently denied that Jackson had ever touched him inappropriately. “I was excited by the idea of being able to defend him and being able to save him,” Robson says in the film. Joy Robson said she believed Jackson’s extortion claim even more when the singer reached a settlement with his accuser’s parents in 1994.
Stephanie Safechuck said the singer called to tell her he was getting married and that it felt like “a child leaving the home.” “It was an emptiness. I loved him,” she says. But when he learned of Jackson’s death, Safechuck says, “my first reaction was being really sad. It was like we would never be friends again. I’d never know him again.”
[Who is Wade Robson? The choreographer accuses Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in ‘Leaving Neverland.’]
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