He was somebody who was going to war with the record labels and was winning.

And then suddenly there were all of these allegations that he was a pedophile.

We loved each other deeply.

We were very close friends.

Michael wasn't a friend of my children, although he was very close to my old family.

He was my friend.

Either way is what happened when those doors shut into those bedrooms.

And I think that's where, you know,

that's where I reach a point where I just don't know.

My fear was not that Michael was a pedophile

and he was not a pedophile, in my strongest opinion.

My fear was that he was going to die.

You enabled this.

You let him get away with what he did to us as children.

You look for it. You really do. You kind of side-eye with things that you may or may not

hurt in the tabloids.

Michael Jackson sold half a billion records. He filled arenas in 50 countries across

six continents. He saws a best-selling album in history.

There was no doubt that he was a pop megastar. But was he also a paedophile? 17 years after his

death, some people don't want that debate to end. The 2019 documentary Leaving Netherlands

detailed graphic allegations of serious abuse by two men who are still awaiting their day in court.

And this week, a new film leaving Netherlands to surviving Michael Jackson will put the spotlight on their claims all over again.

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