Here, the dad-of-three, who is married to EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa, passionately argues that allegations Jacko raped and sexually abused children from new documentary, Leaving Neverland, are fiction.
He tells Sun Online: “To me Michael Jackson is the greatest entertainer that ever lived.
It seemed to me that he adored kids and cared about them because he was a real life Peter Pan.
He donated millions to kids’ charities and adored his own three children.
I don’t think he would have had it in him to hurt them, like Wade Robson and James Safechuck have claimed in the new documentary.
I just don’t believe that Michael Jackson sexually abused children.
I don’t know what is motivating the men who are accusing him but with the amount of money the family have, could there be a financial motive?
I am not calling them liars because I don’t know for sure what happened but I have yet to see any proof.
Even if they couldn’t speak out while he was alive, the guy has been dead nine years, so why now? I feel like they could be motivated by money but that is just my opinion.
I honestly believe Michael is innocent and I’m not alone. More people don’t believe the accusations than do believe them – a lot more.
'Kids in his bed wasn't right – but he wasn't normal'
I think he was a big kid at heart who loved childish things. He even had a funfair in his garden. He didn’t have a childhood and just wanted to have children for company.
Obviously getting kids to stay in his bed wasn’t right but he wasn’t a normal person.
From the age of eight he was travelling on a tour bus, playing huge gigs every night, he didn’t have a normal childhood, he couldn’t do the things that other kids could do.
You can’t imagine Michael Jackson being able to go to the cinema with his friends. He had such a different life to anyone else, you can’t compare it.
When he was with those children, he was just trying to do all the things he never got a chance to do – and that includes sleepovers.
I wouldn't let my kids stay at his house
Admittedly, I wouldn’t let my son Teddy or my daughters Mia and Ella stay at his house if he were still alive, but I wouldn’t let them stay at any adult’s house unless it was family or a close friend – whether it was Michael Jackson or anyone.
Any adult who asked for my child to stay over, you would question – but that doesn’t mean I think he harmed the children that stayed at his house.
'I got sleeve tattoo when Jacko died – and can moonwalk'
I have been a huge Jacko fan for as long as I can remember.
My parents have a video of me dancing to his music when I was four. I dressed up in the Billie Jean outfit with the shiny socks, the suit and the glove for childhood fancy dress parties, practised all the dances in my bedroom and, yes – I can moonwalk.
Michael died the week of my 17th birthday. I was in bed when my dad rang me to break the news but I didn’t believe it. In fact I didn’t believe it for weeks.
I had been wanting to get a sleeve tattoo at 17 so I decided to make it a tribute to Michael. Initially I was only going to get one portrait but I got carried away.
I designed the whole sleeve and just went with it – I had two portraits, three silhouettes and then Gone Too Soon lyrics and a History lyric on the inside of my bicep.
'I'm having the tattoo off – but still love him'
I’m currently having it lasered off – not because I have gone off him in any way but because I wanted a change and tattoos today are so amazing I’m going to change it up.
I was only 13 in 2005, when Jacko was acquitted of child molestation after Jordan Chandler dropped his charges.
It was reported he was paid £13million to drop the case but that’s not a huge amount of money to someone with Jacko’s wealth.
Maybe he couldn’t be bothered with the agg, and having the press on his back every day – so he decided to make it go away by giving Jordan a lump of money and saying ‘that’s the end of it.’
'Did the accusers lie in court?'
The two accusers in the new documentary testified in the court case that Jacko had not molested them.
So they’ve said he was innocent, under oath, and then there’s a change of heart when there’s a documentary being offered and possibly a sum of money. That makes me suspicious.
Sometimes money is an evil thing and can make people do horrible things.
'It's brainwashing viewers'
The Jackson family have pointed out that the documentary only listens to the stories of the accusers, and not anyone who was close to the singer or could deny the abuse took place.
That’s unfair. It’s an attempt to brainwash viewers into believing the two men and not giving them a chance to hear an argument back or any kind of explanation.
The filmmakers know what they’re doing. They know it will be talked about and cause so much speculation.
It brings attention to their documentary and they’re going to earn money from that.
In the Chandler case, a security guard claimed he saw the singer perform a sexual act on Jordan, then 12. Again, I don’t believe it.
If I was a security guard and I saw a grown man doing something that wrong with a kid, I would do something about it then and there. Whether it’s Michael Jackson or anyone else… you would do something.
So why didn’t he speak up about it, report it to the police or tell the parents? He didn’t do any of those things so I find it hard to believe.
Michael’s sister LaToya Jackson says she saw numerous cheques meant for so-called ‘victims’ but where are they? No one has produced them. There’s a lot of talk but no proof.
As it has not been released, I admit I haven’t seen Leaving Neverland and it’s a sensitive subject, so I can’t say the two accusers are liars or say ‘why didn’t you say something sooner?’ I understand that people can’t always speak out.
But if the accusations aren’t true then it’s bang out of order to make money out of someone who is long gone and can’t defend themselves.
I’m just a fan of his work. I didn’t know him personally, I didn’t go round his house. I just love his music and his style of entertainment.
To me, he is a legend and with accusations so serious it’s difficult to know what’s true and what’s not so I don’t listen, because they would tarnish his memory."
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