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Why is no one talking about Leaving Neverland 2 Or contradictions of the accusers?

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leavingnever2 · 21/03/2025 21:45

I noticed no one seems to care about Leaving Neverland 2 or be talking about it. Why aren't more people discussing the factual problems with "Leaving Neverland"?

I've noticed that many discussions about Michael Jackson focus on the allegations without examining the serious inconsistencies in the accusers' stories such as:

  1. James Safechuck claimed abuse at Neverland's train station between 1988-1992, but construction records prove it wasn't built until 1994-1995 - this is a major lie!
  1. Wade Robson claimed his first abuse happened in January 1990 when his family went to the Grand Canyon without him, but his mother Joy testified under oath that Wade went WITH the family on that trip
  1. Robson testified IN DETAIL as an adult under oath in 2005 that nothing inappropriate ever happened
  1. Wade Robson asked Michael Jackson for permission to get married at Neverland Ranch in 2005 - why would he want to celebrate his wedding at the place he later claimed he was abused?
  1. Stephanie Safechuck (James Safechuck's mother) stated in the documentary that when she heard about Michael Jackson's death in 2009, she "danced" and was "so happy he died" because she thought "Oh thank God, he can't hurt any more children." However, according to her son James, he never told anyone about his alleged abuse until after seeing Wade Robson's interview in 2013, and only then told his family about it.

This creates a major contradiction: Stephanie Safechuck couldn't have known about the alleged abuse in 2009 when Michael Jackson died if James didn't tell her until 2013 - four years later.

This is another significant timeline inconsistency that calls into question the narrative presented in the documentary. It's difficult to reconcile how Stephanie could have had this specific reaction to Jackson's death if she was unaware of any alleged abuse at that time. This type of contradiction represents more than just hazy memory - it's a fundamental issue with the timeline of disclosure that the documentary doesn't address or explain.

These aren't minor discrepancies but fundamental contradictions in their stories.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take abuse allegations seriously, but shouldn't we also consider verifiable facts that directly contradict these specific accusations?

People seem to take the documentary at face value, without question - it’s strange to not want to consider all the facts especially when some of them are major.

Honestly, I wouldn’t bet my life of MJ innocence but I also thinks it’s entirely plausible he’s innocent when I heard the above.

Why is there so little interest in most people to examine the full picture/the pure financial greed of these two accusers constantly attempting to get millions after their case is thrown out so many times in Leaving Neverland 2?

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Stonefromthehenge · 23/03/2025 03:00
  1. you have no understanding of abuse
  2. you have no idea what abuse does to the human psyche
  3. Abusers know exactly what it does to the human psyche. This enables them to abuse and ensures there are people who will defend them to the ends of the earth while watching and facilitatng the destruction of their victims
  4. Abusers abuse but it's all those on the sidelines who condemn victims to a lifetime of silence
steff13 · 23/03/2025 03:38

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 10:08

@ObelixtheGauldifferently, there’s hundred of them for a start, but also none are repeatedly seeking financial compensation (going back to accusers a when michael was alive, the civil suits always came first), also there is no evidence to show the lies of his accusers,

saville also never went to court and got proven innocent - that case with Fabio Arvizo for MJ was CLEARLY a money grab proven innocent court but that doesn’t really get mentioned people conveniently forget about it!

so yeh, based on the above I have no reason to believe on savilles innocence…unless someone presents me with some evidence that makes sense

You're not "proven innocent" in criminal court in the US (not sure how it works in the UK). You're found guilty or not guilty. Casey Anthony was found not guilty. OJ Simpson was found not guilty. Not guilty is not the same as innocent.

steff13 · 23/03/2025 03:45

SophiaRose91 · 22/03/2025 19:24

Because ignorant people love to believe he is/was guilty. Michael Jackson was innocent. There is no way that any amount of money would satisfy me if my child had been abused.

We're talking about parents who allowed their children to stay alone with a grown man who was not related to them. Allowed him to sleep in the bed with the children. Are those things that you would do? If not, then perhaps you and those parents are not the same.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 03:47

I just re-watched the 4 hour Leaving Neverland first documentary last night, and regarding Safechuck's mother, Safechuck said, when he refused to testify, he told his mum he didn't want her to either, and he told her that Jackson was a bad man who had done evil things.

So she knew, basically.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 03:51

SophiaRose91 · 22/03/2025 19:24

Because ignorant people love to believe he is/was guilty. Michael Jackson was innocent. There is no way that any amount of money would satisfy me if my child had been abused.

He IS guilty, @SophiaRose91 , read the evidence. Ignorant people love to believe that someone wronged doesn't deserve COMPENSATION. You'd want compensation if you were hurt at work, or fell over and left disabled, WHY do you think a victim of the most heinous abuse ever, doesn't deserve compensation! Why? And a guilty verdict would have seen him in jail, which is what it's mostly about.

Lastly, I turn your statement right back around; an INNOCENT man would NOT PAY MONEY TO KEEP THEM QUIET. Only a guilty man would do that.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 03:57

carrotsandtomatoes · 22/03/2025 14:47

But confusion couldn’t explain some of the discrepancies such as a place not being built until years later meaning the ‘victim’ would be a completely different age and that throws the entire accusation
Also confusion isn’t enough to explain things like the mum dancing in joy before she could have known anything.
or timelines that are so out that other factors make it impossible for the abuse have happened.

and I dispute your assertion that no one would make stuff like this up. Because people HAVE made stuff like this up

Read my answers. The station WAS built, it DID exist. It was even in a fucking tv commercial in 1989, for goodness sake!

Safechuck said, when he refused to testify, he told his mum he didn't want her to either, and he told her that Jackson was a bad man who had done evil things.
So she knew, basically.

And, no, men don't make this stuff up. Things Safechuck said like the wedding rings were proven to be true. @carrotsandtomatoes

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:04

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 20:39

I also find it astounding when people say how can the two accusers be so convincing…I genuinely don’t think Wade comes off as convincing at all!

I used to follow Wade in the 2000’s and watch his dance show every week - the way he acts in this documentary seems very fake to me. And then they throw in explicit parts to make us feel it could never be a lie - it makes it easily believable.

James admittedly does appear more convincing but I don’t understand why people say why would two grown men do this. People lie all the time! About all sorts of things - and convince people!!

Wade looks like a liar I don’t think his accounts feel believable at all

Grown men do not lie about these things, they'd rather cut off their arms than admit to something like this. Both Wade and James were very believable and very truthful. You could not act those emotions.

Jackson however always came across as a liar, and always made statements that never denied outright sexual abuse, he said he would never "harm" a child. These pedophiles think they are making their victims feel good, they don't believe therefore that it's 'harm'. Jackson was such a liar and as phony as a 3 pound note.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:07

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 21:02

Sorry but James Safechuck's allegations against Michael Jackson present significant timeline inconsistencies that undermine his credibility.

In 1993, Safechuck testified under oath that Jackson never sexually abused him, a position he maintained for over two decades. His allegations only emerged in 2014, a year after Wade Robson filed his lawsuit and five years after Jackson's death.

The most problematic aspect of Safechuck's claims involves his supposed late "realisation" of abuse. In legal filings, he stated he did not recognise his experiences as abuse until beginning therapy in 2013 at age 35. However, this claim directly contradicts other statements in those same court documents.

While claiming no understanding of abuse until 2013, he simultaneously described experiencing panic during Jackson's 2005 trial, fearing his "relationship" with Jackson would be exposed. This clearly implies awareness of impropriety years before his claimed 2013 realisation. Make this make sense?!!!!

This has ALREADY been dealt with in the thread! You are repeating desperate attempts at arguments that have been debunked.

It is COMMON for victims to defend their abuser in court and later admit it happened.

It is COMMON to not want to admit to yourself what happened.

We've been through this already, @leavingnever2 .

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:09

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 21:20

@Butchyrestingfaceyes the same ones she knew about when she let her son share the bed!!

on except the other case in 2005 which proves easily the accuser was lying!!! So which case is it that made her dance?!! Since she know about the most believable ones at the time of dancing he was dead?!

on except the other case in 2005 which proves easily the accuser was lying!!!

The accuser wasn't proven a liar. You are just lying yourself now.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:11

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 22:05

@PaintYourAssLikeRembrandtany other Crime, inconsistencies are most certainly indicators of liars - of course it depends what the discrepancy is but some of the ones in this case are wild!!

There are absolutely no 'wild inconsistencies' in this.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:12

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 23:36

@MakkaPakkasCaveshe indeed does - because she isn’t brainwashed like most people

You mean like yourself?

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:25

@ElizaDolittle4321celebrities regularly settle lawsuits for things they didn’t do - piers Morgan always talks about this.

would parents like Jordy chandler take the money and then not bother pursue a criminal case?! That sounds more odd to me.

So much so the law changed thereafter to make criminal cases have to go first!

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leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:26

@ElizaDolittle4321There are many inconsistencies which you choose to ignore

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leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:27

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 03:47

I just re-watched the 4 hour Leaving Neverland first documentary last night, and regarding Safechuck's mother, Safechuck said, when he refused to testify, he told his mum he didn't want her to either, and he told her that Jackson was a bad man who had done evil things.

So she knew, basically.

So she knew but he said he didn’t told anyone?

he also didn’t realise the abuse until 2014. Really?

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leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:34

@ElizaDolittle4321ee also need to disagree Wade is convincing / I don’t think his performance is all convincing he looks and sounds like a liar to me.

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ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:38

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:26

@ElizaDolittle4321There are many inconsistencies which you choose to ignore

No, there aren't. Otherwise you'd list them. And the ones you've listed are easily explained and have been explained to you.

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:40

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 04:09

on except the other case in 2005 which proves easily the accuser was lying!!!

The accuser wasn't proven a liar. You are just lying yourself now.

the GAVIN ARVIZO case was debunked so much so Jackson was found not guilty,

his mom was a proven extortionist and the whole family uncovered as lying grifters. Please do your research on it

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AleaEim · 23/03/2025 05:13

i thought this too op when I watched the first one, nobody seems to care and many haven’t even watched it, I believe them, the grooming and abuse was just horrendous and done in plain sight. I didn’t know there was a neverland 2, where can I watch it?

AleaEim · 23/03/2025 05:13

And also, I don’t understand how his music is still allowed to be aired.

AleaEim · 23/03/2025 05:20

OP, I can’t quote but regards someone not realising they were abused until 2014..

Yes, a lot of victims become so brain washed that they don’t realise it was abuse and it can take a long time to acknowledge there was something even remotely wrong about what happened to them. I work in mental health and believe me there are many people who never process their trauma and take the guilt and self blame to their death bed. It can take a lot of self reflection to realise you were groomed and most victims will find such self reflection extremely painful and confusing. Also, most believe they were in a real relationship with their abuser so it feels to them that they are going behind their ‘friend’s’ back.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 06:17

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:40

the GAVIN ARVIZO case was debunked so much so Jackson was found not guilty,

his mom was a proven extortionist and the whole family uncovered as lying grifters. Please do your research on it

No, it wasn't. Do some research, and not lies from the Jackson cult. Sexually abused children often come from broken and dysfunctional families, abusers prey on them the most. That his mother was untrustworthy doesn't mean he wasn't abused.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 07:33

curiositykilledthiscat · 23/03/2025 06:55

Evidence shows the actual station existed in 1989, like Safechuck said it did. It was in a tv commercial.

curiositykilledthiscat · 23/03/2025 07:37

ElizaDolittle4321 · 23/03/2025 07:33

Evidence shows the actual station existed in 1989, like Safechuck said it did. It was in a tv commercial.

Can you cough up a source for that or is it one of your many opinions?