She didn’t know any better, but will still regret that decision until the day she dies. A teenage sibling even defended the pop star in court. The mothers chaperoned many of these vile trysts, oblivious to (or in denial about) what Jackson was doing to their sons behind closed doors. There was even a mock wedding ceremony at one point the kid involved still can’t bear to look at the ring. Penetration was a more complicated process, but one that got increasingly possible as the boys grew older. Steel yourself for specifics, as dancing around them would defeat the purpose of this documentary: Jackson was a man who convinced their most innocent relatives to bend over and spread their butt cheeks while he masturbated to the sight who forced them to suck on his nipples while he serviced himself who installed an elaborate system of alarm bells at the Neverland Ranch so that he would hear if anyone was going to walk in on an eight-year-old boy with the pop star’s penis inside his mouth. A man who some of them once loved - a man who some of them still do. The same is true of their respective family members, who share a profound guilt for how they enabled this abuse, and a bone-deep rage at the man who perpetrated it.
(Warning: the rest of this review contains extremely graphic details about child sexual abuse.)
Not only do the documentary’s two main subjects perfectly corroborate their separate accounts in all of the most tragic of ways, but they do so with a degree of vulnerability that denies any room for skepticism. In the wake of Reed’s film and the shattering interview footage that it exists to share with us, there’s no longer a reasonable doubt. The eloquent and straightforward “Leaving Neverland” was made for no other reason than to give shape to a nebulous cloud of rumors, many of which were floated in public before they were silenced behind settlements, and none of which a jury was able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s quite another to hear the horrifyingly lucid testimony that stretches across the entire duration of “ Leaving Neverland,” as two of Jackson’s most repeat victims bravely lay bare how a universal icon seduced them away from their realities, splintered their families beyond all recognition, and leveraged their love for him into a disturbing litany of sexual acts. It’s one thing to be vaguely aware of the various allegations that were made against the King of Pop the asterisks that will always be next to the late mega-star’s name. “ was such a peaceful, safe, fun place.It may not be much of a secret that Michael Jackson acted inappropriately with a number of young boys, but there’s no way to prepare yourself for the sickening forensic details presented in Dan Reed’s four-hour exposé. “Not in a million years did I ever see a child around Michael Jackson that looked like they had been distressed, hurt, abused,” Sundberg says in the film, in an interview with producer Liam McEwan.
Neverland Firsthand, directed by Eli Pedraza and uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, features interviews with Taj Jackson (the singer’s nephew), Brandi Jackson (the singer’s niece), and Brad Sundberg, the longtime technical director for the late singer, who also worked on Neverland Ranch.
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He was criminally charged with abusing children, but acquitted after a trial in 2005. Jackson, who died in 2009, denied all claims of sexual misconduct when he was alive. The doc is a direct response to the allegations made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two men who say that Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were children. In the new documentary Neverland Firsthand, Michael Jackson’s family members and former colleagues push back against Leaving Neverland, the shocking, two-part HBO documentary that highlighted pedophilia claims made against the late singer.
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