Opinion | 'Leaving Neverland' is an overdue reckoning for Michael Jackson fans

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Opinion | Michael Arceneaux: 'I never wanted the allegations to ruin my memories. But I cannot reconcile what I know and my love of his music any more.' - NBCNewsTHINK

allegations that he sexually abused a different young boy. Around the same time, my elementary school principal made the local news over allegations that he, too, had sexually abused a young boy.puzzled by Jackson’s interview with Martin Bashir

I was in attendance for Michael Jackson’s memorial service for work, but I mostly felt relief for both of us. I was saddened by his sudden death, and thought about, and even though I never quite understood him, I still sympathized with him. And yes, I thought those allegations about him would die with him — leaving me to again cling to a vision of Michael Jackson that suited my self-interests.

Listening to Wade Robson and James Safechuck describe their sexual abuse in graphic detail made me physically recoil. Listening to those voicemails Jackson left them and reading those faxes that he sent was disturbing, and the intent behind them obvious to anyone.

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