Michael Jackson detailed his thoughts on children in previously unheard audio | Michael Jackson
As Michael Jackson saw it, children fell in love with his personality, wanted to touch and hug him, and “sometimes [got] got me into trouble,” the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings featured in a new documentary.
The UK’s Wonderhood Studios has included recordings expressing these sentiments for a new four-part docuseries starting Wednesday exploring Jackson’s acquittal on child sex abuse charges following a 14-week criminal trial near Los Angeles in 2005.
A. promotional trailer On Channel 4’s The Trial, Jackson’s soft, high-pitched speaking voice suggests: “Kids… just want to touch me and hug me.”
After an interview subject explains that some of the things revealed in those recordings are “unprecedented,” Jackson says in the clip, “Kids end up falling in love with my personality; sometimes that gets me in trouble.”
On Saturday, the New York Post reported another alarming statement these recordings captured Jackson making.
“If you had said to me right now, ‘Michael, you can’t see another child’… I would have killed myself,” Jackson allegedly said in the recordings. Mail.
Wonderhood Studios’ website says The Trial aims to go beyond the “media circus” surrounding Jackson’s acquittal and ask “profound questions about fame, race, and the American justice system.”
Before his acquittal, Jackson was accused of molesting a boy, supplying alcohol to a minor, intoxicating a minor to the point of molestation, and conspiring to hold a teenager and his family captive at the 13-time Grammy winner’s Neverland ranch in California.
These accusations stemmed from the British television documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which aired in February 2003.
In a March 2005 interview, Jackson maintained that the charges were the lowest point in his life and that they were leveled against him as part of an elaborate plan to discredit him.
Jackson also said in that interview, “I am completely, completely innocent.” “Please know that there is a lot of conspiracies going on as we speak.”
The jury found Jackson not guilty of all charges on June 13, 2005, in a courtroom in Santa Maria, California.
Four years and two weeks later, Jackson died from what authorities described as “acute intoxication” from the powerful anesthetic Propofol. He was 50 years old.
His personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was later found guilty of administering a fatal dose of propofol to Jackson as the singer prepared for a series of comeback concerts. Murray was convicted of manslaughter and spent almost two years in prison.
