Times critic LorraineAli on “Leaving Neverland,” the powerful doc chronicling the firsthand accounts of Michael Jackson's alleged abuse victims: “It’s impossible to look away even while it’s clear this tale has a tragic end.'
The film starts with Safechuck recalling meeting Jackson at the age of 9 on the set during a Pepsi commercial shoot in Los Angeles. The singer took a shine to the child actor, inviting him and his family to his Encino estate and eventually visiting their modest San Fernando home for dinners and movie night. “He was like my son,” said Safechuck’s mother of Jackson. “I even washed his clothes.”
Safechuck shows the ring on camera now, and it’s so small it doesn’t fit over his first knuckle. It’s a sad, compelling image — one of many in the documentary. Neverland ranch near Santa Barbara was the staging area where Robson alleges Jackson wooed his family into staying, allowing the boy to spend more and more time with him alone at the “magical” compound.
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