I shared the same mindset of many of the folks Oprah was talking about. And a 14 week trial in 2005 found Jackson not guilty of charges that he had molested another 13-year-old boy, Gavin Arvizo.)
(In 1993, after 13-year-old Jordan Chandler and his father accused Jackson of child sexual abuse, a police investigation was inconclusive, and Jackson settled with the family out of court. I had go-to lines about being able to separate the art from the man about how Jackson was certainly an oddball with an affinity for children because of his own troubled upbringing, but that didn't make him a criminal about how there was never any real proof that he had abused children. Still, even as a grown, college educated, opinionated adult, until just two days ago, I was one of those Michael Jackson defenders. Oprah also mentioned the criticisms she h ad been receiving on social media, with commenters asking why she would do this interview when Jackson can't defend himself-and also accusing her of "trying to bring the Black man down." She was referencing the naysayers on social media who were already-before even watching the two-part documentary-discrediting Robson and Safechuck, calling them liars because neither of them had spoken up when they were younger about what they say happened to them. At the beginning, Oprah asked both men if they were prepared to "get it" for speaking out about Jackson's alleged crimes. So when I heard about the new two-night HBO documentary Leaving Neverland-and the fact that Oprah was going to be interviewing Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men in the film who accuse Jackson of sexually abusing them as children -I had a similar reaction to the rest of the world: Disbelief.Īnd that was my sentiment walking into Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland-a conversation with Robson, Safechuck, and Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed-which was taped in New York City before a live audience of sexual abuse survivors. 27 Happy Songs to Play When You Want to Feel Good
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