James Safechuck’s life changed forever after he met Michael Jackson at age 8.
A child actor from Simi Valley, California, Safechuck landed a coveted role in a Pepsi commercial alongside the pop star in 1987. Jackson took him on stage during the “Bad” tour and let the boy moonwalk beside him on stage.
“It was otherworldly, I guess," Safechuck, now 41, recalled, according to CBS News.
But Safechuck claims his relationship with Jackson eventually turned abusive. By age 10, sleepovers turned into something much more sinister; he recently told CBS This Morning that Jackson “introduced [him] to masturbation,” adding that the pop star also taught him how to French kiss before [moving] onto oral sex.”
Safechuck was silent about the alleged abuse until 2014, when he filed a similar suit to the one Wade Robson filed against Jackson a year earlier. Robson claimed that trauma had caused him to reckon with the fact that he was sexually abused by Jackson as a child, according to the Associated Press. Although both men’s individual lawsuits were dismissed in 2017, they are currently under appeal.
Now, ahead of the release of “Leaving Neverland,” an upcoming HBO documentary that chronicles the abuse he and Robson allegedly faced at Jackson’s hands all those years ago, Safechuck has opened up about his past — and the confusion and darkness he says have pervaded his life since Jackson entered it.
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James Safechuck’s life changed forever after he met Michael Jackson at age 8.
A child actor from Simi Valley, California, Safechuck landed a coveted role in a Pepsi commercial alongside the pop star in 1987. Jackson took him on stage during the “Bad” tour and let the boy moonwalk beside him on stage.
“It was otherworldly, I guess," Safechuck, now 41, recalled, according to CBS News.
But Safechuck claims his relationship with Jackson eventually turned abusive. By age 10, sleepovers turned into something much more sinister; he recently told CBS This Morning that Jackson “introduced [him] to masturbation,” adding that the pop star also taught him how to French kiss before [moving] onto oral sex.”
Safechuck was silent about the alleged abuse until 2014, when he filed a similar suit to the one Wade Robson filed against Jackson a year earlier. Robson claimed that trauma had caused him to reckon with the fact that he was sexually abused by Jackson as a child, according to the Associated Press. Although both men’s individual lawsuits were dismissed in 2017, they are currently under appeal.
Now, ahead of the release of “Leaving Neverland,” an upcoming HBO documentary that chronicles the abuse he and Robson allegedly faced at Jackson’s hands all those years ago, Safechuck has opened up about his past — and the confusion and darkness he says have pervaded his life since Jackson entered it.
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