The film presents just one side of the story: what Robson and Safechuck recall about their experiences with Jackson, and, decades later, how both of these men have navigated the subsequent trauma. Each was heartbroken when he eventually turned his attention elsewhere, to other boys. Robson and Safechuck actively sought out and sustained contact with Jackson. “Leaving Neverland” does not offer any new evidence of abuse, but it is nonetheless a gruelling and devastating film that asks viewers to reconfigure how they think about both Jackson and potential victims of rape. The film immediately establishes just how exhilarating it was for the boys to be chosen by Jackson, who, in the nineteen-eighties, was the most widely idolized pop star on earth-to be offered not just his interest and affection but access to a rarefied, enchanted life style, absent of parents, school, or meddling by adults. Both men allege that Jackson groomed and abused them when they were children. The film was directed by Dan Reed, a British documentarian (in 2014, he released a film about vigilante pedophile hunters), and hinges on extensive on-camera interviews with Wade Robson, who is now thirty-six, and James Safechuck, who is now forty. It’s certain to be a bleak day of reckoning for serious fans of Jackson, who has been trailed, even in death, by accusations of unconscionable behavior. What was the overall purpose of Leaving Neverland and did it spread awareness about child sexual abuse as its been credited by Winfrey and numerous media outlets? In order to spread correct information about abuse one must focus on the allegations of Robson and Safechuck as separate units outside of the case scenario that Winfrey’s ‘After Neverland’ show attempted to present.Īligning the testimony of Robson and Safechuck with sexual abuse statistics in proven cases, here’s 8 ways Leaving Neverland and Oprah Winfrey’s After Neverland got it wrong.“Leaving Neverland,” a two-part, four-hour documentary about two survivors of alleged sexual abuse by Michael Jackson, premières on HBO this Sunday. Oprah began with this comment: “If it gets you – our audience to see how it happens (sexual abuse) then some good will come of it.” Oprah Winfrey hosts a conversation featuring Wade Robson and James Safechuck, alongside Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed with an audience of sexual abuse survivors. Be that as it may, Oprah Winfrey along with others made the argument that Leaving Neverland would still be an informative documentary no matter what the accusers true stories are.
It was also sexual seduction,” Winfrey added that Reed was “able to illustrate in these four hours what I tried to explain in 217.”īefore the premiere of Leaving Neverland it was public knowledge that Robson and Safechuck denied wrongdoing under oath, and that they could potentially win millions after changing their stories. I tried and tried and tried to get the message across to people that sexual abuse was not just abuse. In the interview she asserted: “I taped 217 episodes on sexual abuse.
Immediately following the second night of the premiere Oprah Winfrey hosted a conversation featuring the accusers, alongside the Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed, before an audience of sexual abuse survivors and others impacted by molestation. The two men allege abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson since the age of 7 and 10.
Leaving Neverland, a film that premiered on HBO in the height of the MeToo and Times Up movements, is a two part, 4 hour film starring Wade Robson and James Safechuck. Michael Jackson and young Wade Robson (left) Oprah Winfrey’s After Neverland, Wade Robson (center) and James Safechuck (right) The Michael Jackson allegations, how does Leaving Neverland really line up with abuse statistics? Learn 8 ways Leaving Neverland got it wrong.
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