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Leaving Neverland (2019) | Official Trailer | HBO

Leaving Neverland is a two-part documentary exploring the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 40, and Robson, now 36, as well as their mothers, wives and siblings, the film crafts a portrait of sustained abuse, exploring the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their experiences after both had a young son of his own. Directed by Dan Reed. Leaving Neverland premieres March 3 on HBO. #HBO #HBODocs #LeavingNeverland Subscribe to the HBO YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/wtFYd7 Don’t have HBO? Order Now: https://play.hbonow.com/ Get More HBO: Get HBO GO: https://play.hbogo.com/ Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hbodocs Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HBODocs Like on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hbo/ Subscribe on Tumblr: http://hbo.tumblr.com/ Official Site: http://www.hbo.com

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JAMES SAFECHUCK: Everybody wanted to meet Michael or be with Michael. -(CAMERA SHUTTERS) -♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ And then he likes you. WADE ROBSON: I was seven years old. Michael asked, "Do you and the family want to come to Neverland?" JOY ROBSON: We'd drive in, and you forget about all your problems. You were in Neverland. It was a fantasy. SAFECHUCK: The days were filled with... magical childhood adventure experiences. Playing tag, watching movies, eating junk food. Anything y
ou could ever want as a child. ROBSON: It's like hanging out with a friend that's more your age. Just kid things. They were just doing kid things. He just came across as a loving, caring, kind soul. It was easy to believe that he was just that. Out of a storybook, right? Out of a fairy tale. Hello, Wade. Today is your birthday. So congratulations. I love you. Goodbye. SAFECHUCK: There's no thoughts of, "This is wrong," or anything like that. He told me if they ever found out what we were d
oing, he and I would go to jail for the rest of our lives. SAFECHUCK: Secrets will eat you up. You feel so alone. ROBSON: I want to be able to speak the truth... as loud as I had to speak the lie for so long. ♪ (MUSIC CONCLDUES) ♪

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@marmavit

What annoyes me the most are the parents of the grown up kids. Let's sum this up: you let your 7 y.o. child sleep in the huge mansion of an, let's say, eccentric adult man (who happens to be the most famous pop star in the universe) that believes in Peter Pan, has a private luna park etc and only after YEARS (and after you accepted money, a home, privileges, etc etc) you ask your son if "something strange" happened...?!? Seriously..?

@rasheed9705

1. Safechuck claims he was abused from 88-92 (until the age of 14). Claims that during the "Honeymoon stage" (the beginning), he was repeatedly taken to the second floor of the train station to be abused. ---> The train station was built in 1994 (construction began Q4 93) 2. Safechuck claims he was flown to NYC as MJ was there to perform at the 1989 Grammy's and was abused on that trip. ---> The 89 Grammy's were not in NYC, nor did MJ attend or perform.

@dtothebtotheh

Whether he’s guilty or not, those people were awful parents

@SimonStuff2000

This man had everything, except peace.

@changelagonzales7572

FACTS: Wade’s mother says in 2009, she danced when MJ died, because she knew he’d never hurt another child. Even though her son didn’t realise he was abused until 2013. Robson says they visited Neverland hundreds of times. But he said in court that they only went to Neverland 14 times. And Michael was only there for 4 out of those 14 times. Safechuck in his lawsuit claimed he was abused by MJ in New York, in 1989 after he performed at the Grammys. But the Grammys were in Los Angeles that year, and MJ didn’t perform at the Grammys in 1989. Safechuck said in 1987, he spent thanksgiving with MJ at his home. But MJ was in Australia doing the Bad tour in 1987 on thanksgiving. Robson said he was forced to testify in 2005 as he didn’t want MJ’s children to be fatherless. Although he didn’t even realise he was being abused until 2013. Safechuck claimed MJ took him on a “honeymoon” to Euro Disney in 1988. But Euro Disney was NOT even opened until 1992. All the items burned in Leaving Neverland credits were fake. The actual valuables were sold by Wade for massive profit at JA/eBay. 45 minutes was cut out of the UK and Denmark version of LN due to the piles and piles of lies contradicting their stories. James Safechuck claimed in LN that MJ “abused”him on the train station in September 1992, but the train station was NOT even built until the end of 1993. The construction of the train station itself wasn’t until December of 1993. How did he get “abused”, when the train station didn’t even exist at the time...??? Lies, lies, and more piles of lies. Joy Robson - testified under oath in a deposition in 1993/1994 in relation to the Jordie Chandler case that Wade had actually GONE with them on that trip to the Grand Canyon, before the entire family returned to Neverland for the second time the following weekend. This means that Wade claimed he was left alone with MJ while his family went to the Grand Canyon and that was his first time being “abused”. BUT this proves he WASN’T even with MJ!!! #mjinnocent

@alexdmd

Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, but everybody wants to believe all about it

@deserteagle6776

Not defending this man but he is dead you know.... Why aren't people doing something about predators in Hollywood who are still alive??

@Primaeva

I mean, I'm just a guy trying to start finding the documentary to watch it, but in reading the reviews, one side's pointing to facts and court cases and investigation, the other is freshly wounded from a four-hour ordeal based on testimony of two people. I have no issues believing that MJ COULD be guilty. I'm not blinded by his talent or his hold over us with his songs. He COULD be guilty. Certainly he spoke eccentrically and basically gives off the creepy vibes. Someone born after his death and unaware of his talent would go: "wow, that guy does look like a weird-ass vampire". Sure. But the truly scary thing to me, is how a four-hour documentary immediately decided for so many people WHETHER wrongdoings occurred or not. The victim here could be the molestation victims, or it could be Michael. No one knows yet, do they? But the real victim, the one we need to all mourn and try to protect, is critical thinking. Submitting your belief over to a well-filmed docu that doesn't field both voices, both views, is just horrific. Tomorrow the same director could film the flip-side of the story, his family members crying and saying they have PTSD and loss in faith of humanity that people are gouging the estate and Jackson name for money and financial gain (HBO funded this for a damn reason), and would you all immediately jump ship based on that? Hold a balanced view, champion both camps, see both sides of the story, be able to present that balanced view to a third party. There's no need to capitulate or gravitate towards any one camp right away just because they unleashed a shock-and-horror docu. Add that to your list of references, and hope some damning or vindicating evidence turns up. Then you can make your judgement. Have more depth than that. Lose this sense of reasoning and we're all fucked.

@azora_ritz

"You would do anything for money Anything Anything Anything for money I lied for you I cried for you" -Michael Jackson Money

@juliec.6865

“Are you infected with the same disease of lust, gluttoney and greed? Then watch the ones with the biggest smiles The idle jabbers... Cuz they're the backstabbers If you know it's a lie Then you will swear it If you give it with guilt Then you will bear it If it's taking a chance Then you will dare it You do anything for money” -Money by MJ

@musicismysoul8702

Wade and James: How many lies you want? Reed: YES

@karmencerar4402

"There was nothing strange about your dad. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with." (Speech from Reverend Al Sharpton)

@aerousops1806

James said he was abused from 1988 to 1992 (remember that) -He said he was abused alot in the neverland train station,but the train station was built in 1993 and it opened in 1994 -He said he was abused after the grammys show in 1989 in New York,But that show was in Los Angeles and michael didnt perform grammys that year -He said he was abused on a trip to euro disney in 1988,but euro disney opened its doors in 1992 -Remember that the FBI investigated michael for 10 years and they found NOTHING And to think with an open mind why would they sue the king of pop 10 years after his death for 100 Million dollars Haters and trolls please investigate better

@royk.8481

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” R.I.P Michael Jackson.

@maxwell7003

Editors: how many drone shots do you want? Dan Reed: yes

@kritikosofara

Thank you HBO , now i know Michael Jackson is Innocent 200% hee hee

@whatzupwitu

“Lies Lies and more lies, and lies on top of lies” - Aretha Franklin Edit: YALL LOOK! “Michael Jackson’s Final Accuser Case Dismissed by LA Court, “Leaving Neverland” Doc now based on NOTHING” it was always based on nothing 😌

@zarin1533

What kind of parents are they😂😂to leave their child alone for such long period.they are greedy too.

@shizoidsluny

"Amazingly, centuries pass, but mankind is still dragging its best representatives to the fire in order to burn them with delirious joy." Dude from the channel "Хороший Медведь".

@rebekahfuentes6929

As mother of all boys, I find it disturbing that any parent would even allow their child/children to stay the night with a grown man or woman, don't care how famous they are or not, my kids don't even stay with adult family members except grandma, and my brother n law, his wife and kids. Also I truly do not believe MJ did any of those things simply the fact that if he did, why settle anything out of court? Wouldn't you as a parent want justice? Sickening to think that now after all these years you want to "tell the truth" why not right after he died? Or before when you became an adult and can speak for on your own behalf.