She admitted that she “tried and tried and tried to get the message across to people that sexual abuse is not just abuse. A survivor of child sexual abuse herself, Oprah praised Reed for his approach to the project. Winfrey does not care about the backlash (of which she has received plenty even before the interview aired). Oprah Winfrey is set to interview Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men accusing Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.The interview special, Oprah. It’s like a scourge on humanity… If it gets you, our audience, to see how it happens, then some good would have come of it.” This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. But for me, this moment transcends Michael Jackson.” It is much bigger than any one person. She said, “I know people all over the world are going to be in an uproar and debating whether or not Michael Jackson did these things and whether these two men are lying or not lying. ‘Leaving Neverland’ the documentary of the alleged sexual molestation accusations by two grown men Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck by the hands of the late pop superstar Michael Jackson has aired on HBO for the past two nights. Oprah told the audience that she expects backlash. Jackson’s estate has vehemently denied the accusations and called both Robson and Safechuck liars. The hour-long interview aired on the OWN network and the studio audience was made up of sexual abuse survivors, supporters and family members. Winfrey sat down with the two men accusing Jackson of childhood sexual abuse, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, and director Dan Reed. that was important enough for me to take the hateration for.After the controversial airing of HBO’s “Leaving Neverland,” a documentary that details two men’s experiences being abused as children by Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey conducted an interview with the two men.
And people call it molestation, but there is a big seducing that goes on. In an interview, she was asked about the train station and if it caused her to second guess her total belief in Reed’s film. She immediately gave it her stamp of approval.
it’s not about one person, it is about the pattern. Before Smallcombe’s findings, television personality Oprah Winfrey embraced Leaving Neverland. “I realized that a lot of people are going to be triggered by watching it, and that a lot of people will not understand what the pattern is. When asked by Trevor Noah what led her to make After Neverland, Winfrey, a survivor of sexual abuse, said she wanted to break down the pattern that sexual abusers follow. “We had to take people off the switchboard ‘cause there was so much hateration going on.” “I haven’t had that much hateration since I did ‘The Puppy Episode’ with Ellen ,” she said, referring to her guest-starring role in the iconic episode of the sitcom Ellen in which DeGeneres’s character came out. In a Wednesday night interview on The Daily Show, Winfrey said that the special earned her more hate than any other segment has in years. She hosted a post-film interview (titled After Neverland) with Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck, asking them about their claims and filling her audience with male survivors of sexual abuse.
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After the debut of Leaving Neverland-the shocking HBO documentary highlighting pedophilia accusations against Michael Jackson- Oprah Winfrey threw the full weight of her support behind the film.