such as Michael Jackson When they see it, children are attracted to his personality and want to touch and hug him – and “sometimes it [got] I’m in trouble,” the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings in a new documentary.
Jackson aired those thoughts Wednesday for a new four-episode documentary series at the UK’s Wonderhood Studios that explores his acquittal on child molestation charges after a 14-week criminal trial near Los Angeles in 2005.
A Promotional trailer Channel 4’s The Trial features Jackson’s soft, high-pitched voice: “Kids … want to touch me and hug me.”
“Kids fall in love with my personality — sometimes it gets me in trouble,” Jackson also said in the clip, after explaining the interview subject that some of the things revealed on the recordings in question were “unprecedented.”
Those recordings capture Jackson’s making, the New York Post reported on Saturday in another particularly scathing comment.
“If you tell me right now … ‘Michael, you’re never going to see another baby,’ … I’m going to kill myself,” Jackson said deliberately in the recordings. Post.
According to Wonderhood Studios’ website, The Trial aims to go beyond the “media circus” surrounding Jackson’s innocence and ask “deeper questions about fame, race and the American justice system.”
Before his acquittal, Jackson was charged with molesting a boy, providing alcohol to a child, intoxicating a minor and conspiring to hold the boy and his family hostage at the 13-time Grammy winner’s Neverland Ranch in California.
The allegations come from a UK television documentary, Living With Michael Jacksonwhich aired in February 2003.
In March 2005 InterviewJackson argued that the allegations were the lowest point in his life — and that they were leveled against him as part of an elaborate scheme to discredit him.
“I was completely, completely innocent,” Jackson also said in that interview. “Please know that there is a lot of intrigue going on as we speak.”
A jury Jackson was found innocent All charges on June 13, 2005 in a Santa Maria, California, court.
Four years and two weeks later, Jackson died of what authorities described as “acute intoxication” from the powerful anesthetic propofol. He is 50 years old.
His personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was convicted of giving Jackson a fatal dose of propofol as the singer prepared for a series of comeback concerts. Murray Convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to almost two years in prison.
