WATCH: Oprah interviews Michael Jackson accusers after 'Leaving Neverland' IOL_Lifestyle
As soon as HBO finished airing "Leaving Neverland" - the two-part documentary in which two men detailed allegations of childhood sexual abuse by Michael Jackson - the network continued its Jackson coverage. This time, it was anchored by Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey also said that Jackson's estate has vehemently denied the accusations and called both Robson and Safechuck liars. Jackson fans have also been vicious, as Winfrey also received backlash before the interview.Winfrey started by discussing how the word "abuse" lacks accuracy, and that children often can't articulate abuse to their parents because they literally don't have the language to explain what happened, as they have been "seduced and entrapped.
Safechuck echoed a similar experience and said that there was "a lot of panic" in talking about Jackson: "Michael drilled in you, 'If you're caught, we're caught, your life is over, my life is over.' It's repeated over and over again, it's drilled into your nervous system," he said. "It takes a lot of work to sort through that."
"This is a film that's not about Jackson. It's about what happened to Wade and James," Reed said, adding that no one in the Jackson family "disputes" that Jackson spent many nights with young boys. "What's the journalistic value of interviewing someone who says, 'Well, Michael's a really nice guy, he would never do anything to a child'? Especially when they have a financial, vested interest in smearing and discrediting these men.
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