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These details are pretty horrific.
Michael Jackson is back in the spotlight after last night's premiere of the new documentary
Leaving Neverland, but not in a good way!
The film features two men that allege the pop star sexually abused them as young boys. Wade Robson and James Safechuck detailed their experiences with the music icon, and both of them have eerily similar stories about how MJ wooed their families and gained their trust in order to commit his crimes.
Safechuck met Jackson after they starred in a Pepsi commercial together, and he claims Jackson taught him how to masturbate so that he could watch.
"He set it up like I’m going to show you something that everybody does and you’ll enjoy it. It felt like you were bonding, in a way. The tour was the start of this sexual, like, couple relationship," Safechuck admitted.
For his part, Robson met the chart topper at just 5-years-old during a mall dance competition in his native Australia. They reconnected during a trip to LA when he was 8-years-old, and that's when things turned sexual. Robson claims Jackson performed oral sex on him, and tried to convince him it was normal.
"You and I were brought together by God. We were meant to be together. This is how we show love," he said the singer told him.
The creepiest detail of all? Jackson alleged "married" Safechuck at one point!
"We were like this married couple. And I say married because we had this mock wedding ceremony. We did this in his bedroom and we filled out some vows. We would go buy them [rings] at jewelry stores and pretend like they were for somebody else, like for a female. We would pretend my small hand fit whatever female we were buying it for. I was really into jewelry and he would reward me with jewelry for doing sexual acts for him," he confessed.
Jackson was well aware his behavior was evil, and trained the boys to avoid getting caught.
"He would run drills with me where we’d be in the hotel room and he would pretend like somebody was coming in and you had to get dressed as fast as possible without making noise. So not getting caught was a big kind of fundamental [thing]. It was very much a secret. He would tell me that if anybody found out, his life would be over and my life would be over, and that’s something he tells you over and over again," Safechuck explained.
Robson grew so close to Jackson, he was shattered when he was cast aside for MacCauley Culkin.
"That experience was really hard for me. This was the first time I came up against the new friend Macaulay Culkin. Macaulay was where I was, in my previous trips. Right by Michael’s side [at] every moment… and now I was on the sidelines as far as being Michael’s friend and being his favorite. That was really confusing. He and Michael had all of the connection and secret things that Michael and I had before. I could recognize that. There was jealousy from me, hurt, confusion," he revealed.
In February, Jackson's estate filed a lawsuit to block the airing of the film, but HBO went ahead anyways.
"Despite the desperate lengths taken to undermine the film, our plans remain unchanged. HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland, the two-part documentary, on March 3 and 4. This will allow everyone the opportunity to assess the film and the claims in it for themselves," HBO said in a statement.
If this is all true, we're completely disgusted.
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