Jackson also told him that “if anyone ever found out that we were doing these sexual things, we would go to jail for the rest of our lives.” “I was terrified.” When Safechuck was 14, he says, Jackson staged a mock wedding with him, complete with vows and a diamond-encrusted wedding ring. Safechuck says the pop singer used to hold drills in which he would train the boy in putting his clothes on quickly in case any witnesses should appear. Starting when he was eleven, he says, they engaged in sex acts many times at Jackson’s Neverland compound - in a castle, in an attic, in a pool, in a train station. Safechuck was a child actor who says he met Jackson at age ten while filming a Pepsi commercial.
I haven’t yet seen Leaving Neverland, but those who have report that the film paints a damning picture. (A statement from the Jackson estate dismissed the allegations as uncorroborated “tabloid character assassination.”) In the film, he and Safechuck tell their stories in gruesome, indeed sickening, detail. “I want to speak the truth as loud as I spoke the lie,” Robson says in the four-hour documentary Leaving Neverland, which has just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ahead of being broadcast on HBO later this year. They are now saying their previous testimony was untrue and that it resulted from direct pressure by Jackson himself, who told them that he and they would be jailed if he should be convicted of sexual abuse. Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 40, have previously stated under oath that they weren’t victimized by Jackson when they were children.
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