Ahead of the HBO airing of the two-part miniseries Leaving Neverland, which debuted on January 25 at The Sundance Film Festival, newly unearthed footage has surfaced via DailyMailTV of the late music icon Michael Jackson being grilled about the allegations that haunted the latter part of his life.
Filmed at The Four Seasons Hotel in New York on March 1, 1996, the video shows the King of Pop (joined by off-screen advisors Steve Cochrane and Zia Modabber) fidget and awkwardly laugh as he’s asked straightforward questions about the claims of sexual molestation lodged against him about Neverland Ranch regulars Macaulay Culkin, Jordan Chandler, and Brett Barnes.
Near the tail end of the clip, Jackson is shown and asked to describe documents which he says are speaking points for an interview meant to set the records straight about “crazy stories” that people seemingly fabricated out of thin air.
“If people hear a lie long enough, they start to believe it,” he said, listing off a number rumors, such as skin bleaching and his sexuality.
Noting that you shouldn’t judge a person unless you’ve actually spoken to them, he then quoted a Bible verse, noting that “Jesus loved the children and said to be like the children … he always surrounded himself with children.”
Referencing the honesty and pureness of heart children exhibit, he adds “that’s how I was raised, to imitate that.”
The Leaving Neverland documentary, which is slated to air in March, centers around Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim the star raped and sexually abused them during sleepovers at Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California.
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Should have been a priest
So the proof the media thought they finally were gonna have from Leaving Neverland turned out to be nothing but hype. So now they are desperately trying to sensationalize an old video that has been on youtube for years. And the video helps Jackson. It’s great when he talks about rumors at the end.
– Michael Jackson
“I’m a black American man and I’m proud of it, and I’m honoured of it. I didn’t bleach my skin. That’s a rumor. I’m not gay.”
See… he’s using the textbook Republican defense right here.
Clearly people don’t want to do their research. It’s clear from his expression that he’s shocked and annoyed that he’s being asked such a question. This was a interview about his music the guy asking the questions was after a scandal. Y’all need to put respect on Michael’s name he did so much for black entertainment and helped a lot of people. These liars Wade and James are after nothing but $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
id be laughing to he thought it was F*c* crazy you people put him through hell
mike aint did that nasty shit , white people are wicked but Elvis wasnt a pedo tho foh , elvis fucked young girls but they dont care about that tho
None of this matters.
How do we know this video is even real?
Just because it is on a screen doesn’t mean that it is so.
Either way I couldn’t care less, but c’mon now, these are the fantasy industries at work.
The video is real, the title is click bait and written to make people see the video for something that it actually isn’t. He laughed because what he was being asked is fictional B.S.
What if the whole thing is fictional though? That’s the pull of screen based media. Michael Jackson was an actor and a fantasy artist. Then again, this whole thing really could’ve been just another embarrassment ritual.
I hope some of you can explain why MJ had pics of naked children in his possession. Old books that didn’t fit the parameter for porn but naked pics all the same.
You shouldn’t believe one way or another because there is no real way of knowing what’s true.
Yeah it’s true, it was evidence cataloged after a raid of his house dummy
Why do you believe that? Why do believe any of this is real? Michael Jackson was a member of the pretend, fantasy industries of film and music, so who knows? You should really think twice about anything media related.
Macaulay Culkin vouched for him. That’s always been good enough for me.
Now go after Bryan Singer and James Gunn. We’re waiting…
he was abused as a child and grew to do the same shit, just fucking face it
He was not sexually abused as a child and he never molested a child or violated any human being. We proved that decades ago to several judges and jurors who were given all the facts. Your opinion is based strictly on ignorance you’ve been fed by media. I know these accusers and their families and they admitted to lying for money years ago.
you need to investigate the meaning of pan as in peter pan and find the truth, so sleeping with kids as an adult is ok?
I have sleepovers with my kids and their friend’s and I wish a MF would say some shit like that about me. These teens are out of hand nowadays. It’s these folks behind these screens that’s hiding that come up with this stupid shit.
?? B.S.
You no nothing about MJ n I am sick of the continual slander against him for NO OTHER REASON except for the opportunistic leaches who hope to lay some sort of financial claim to Michael’s estate and beautiful legacy!! Leave this poor soul and his family alone and move on with your pathetic lives!! He was far too good for the likes of those sought to destroy him for greed, jealousy and hatred, PERIOD!
the video is fake it’s being rigged to make people believe this man did what the so call two individuals that testified for him and now decade later their career is not going anywhere so they go after him when his dead they should be ashamed of themselves real victim no matter what wont ever defend someone that hurt them never I know some victims not one will stand for someone that hurt them not one
That video is nothing but lies by two “people” who used his money for money. It truly disgusts me how people are believing shit these liars are saying and I wish the worst to them, just leave poor Michael in peace! And this article too STOP FUCKING USING HIS NAME FOR THESE RETRADED AS STORYS MAKING HIM LOOK BAD! And the same for this person who wrote the story BURN IN HELL BITCH I WISH THE WORST FOR YOU, YOU NASTY ASS HOE!!!
Your delusional
You’re
This title is misleading. The video clearly shows he was angry and frustrated with the line of questioning.
What’s the point of Doing All This..It Seems like This Is Fake….Michael Isnt Giggling…Hes Frustrated and Angry…And Why Aren’t You Showing The Full Interview…What Do You Have To Hide…Just Let Michael Rest In Peace…Nothing To Gain By These False Accusations!!!
The video is clearly edited to a negative side and some accusers have have recused their accusations, but damn a 20 million out of court settlement is more damning then this entire video.
Settlements happen all the time to save face.
They do, but 20 million!? Hundreds of thousands is saving face, but 20 million means there was an incredibly high chance he would be convicted if it went to trial. Why spend that much money otherwise.
Let them rest in peace.
The me too movement is all f…led up and turned to a money making machine.
Nothing honorable about it anymore.
Here’s some of the things found in Michael Jackson’s home when it was raided: images of children bleeding or in pain, and of children’s faces superimposed onto adult bodies. Many of the images included in the documents could be described as erotic or provocative art photography, including works from a book entitled The Fourth Sex, by artists such as the Chapman Brothers and Tracey Emin. Other books found by police contained images of children nude or in swimwear. Now keep trying to defend this weirdo and pretend that he’s not into kids. No normal grown man would keep shit like that.
And you have some evidence that stuff was actually Michael’s? And not planted there by those conducting the raid or their puppet masters aka the j-words?
You trolling or actually retarded?
Actually there never was an official report of that raid and when the actual police department was contacted they said the report was a mix of real documents and fake documents added in to make it seem like part of a real report so maybe do better research
Great music, shit person.
Fuck U Racist Goat Mouth
This is a bunch BS lies!! Go back to the beginning when it all happened (the trail, false witnesses over the yrs., & bring out the FBI investigations, they could NOT find one single proof of evidence that MJ was gulity of any wrong doing!! It’s all documented on file!! Wade R. is nothing but a broke a** full blown liar!! If anyone violated him, it sure as h*ll wasn’t MJ!!
That’s not his real looks! Imagine what he really would have looked like. He most likely would have not been a phenom.
Blown out of context, clearly frustration from MJ. He is different so anything he says or does will be twisted and distorted to look a certain way. Something should be said about the energy put toward someone who has been dead over 10 years. It’s worse in the social media times we are in if you look guilty you are guilty. This isn’t an attack on MJ, because he has been in the grave and is being dug up only to tarnish his legacy Thriller must be dethroned.
The straw that broke the camels back. This is one of the few and only hiphop new sites still active. Why would this site use such cheap tactics for views. Especially about someone who was proven innocent. Damn!!!
Lookup the controvery about some of the lyrics on MJ song “they don’t really care about us” and check out the leaked phone conversation audio where he refers to certain people around him as leeches. At least one of the kids who he was accused of molesting happens to be of same ethnicity as the ones who referred to as leeches. Also find out who controls media and entertainment industry and you might get a clue while he was attacked like this, murdered and still slandered ten years after his death.
Or black males have lik 5 role models and now 2 of the major ones are caught bring rapists and pedophiles and you cant wrap yiur gead around it so you blame (((them)))
Wow this guys defines being an idiot. First learn how to write and secondly who the hell looks at them as role models? We’re in 2018 dumbass the role models rn are guys like lil yachty and lil uzi or other people with face tats and colorful dreaded or braided faded haircuts that don’t even bother to opentheir mouths to talk
Headline is clown tactic. Great journalism guys.
Very interesting sbout MICHAEL JACKSON. GO AHEAD. EXHUME BODY. RUN DNA. IF NOTHING MORE THAN FOR SCIRNTIFIC RESEARCH.
Michael Jackson is the biggest scandal of this century. Makes for interesting movie.
Very ghoulish to bother a person’s remains. But, Americans love to read about pharoah’s remains.
This sort of thing seems fascinating, the mystery of what happens to people after death.
Tell me how could I know 2 different people in my lifetime, one who worked for a local colosseum, the other obviously his sister who years apart share the same store of how torn up her brother was for having to “find” young boys for Micheal Jackson. Most groups wanted drugs or women but not Micheal. He wanted “young boys.” Don’t know where he ever found m but he obviously kept his job. If he was doing it in my city , he was doing it all over the world!