Michael Jackson’s relationship with children was inappropriate, but these accusers don’t seem credible to me

Published March 8, 2019 8:38pm ET



Any reasonable person will come away from watching HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” certain that Michael Jackson’s relationships with children were completely inappropriate. Far less certain is that Jackson did what his accusers in the documentary allege.

I watched both parts of the special and I don’t believe Wade Robson or James Safechuck, the documentary’s two near-middle-aged male subjects who say after meeting and befriending Jackson in the late 1980s, he sexually abused them in horrific ways for nearly a decade.

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