{"id":120483,"date":"2019-04-08T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120483"},"modified":"2019-04-08T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:54:05","slug":"oprah-winfrey-demolished-for-fake-news-about-false-accusations-against-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120483","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey Demolished for Fake News About False Accusations Against Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michael Jackson Fans Call Oprah Winfrey &#8216;Fake&#8217; After &#8216;Leaving Neverland&#8217; Interview<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Sachin Trivedi<br \/>\nInternational Business Times<\/p>\n<p>Oprah Winfrey has been facing backlash from Michael Jackson fans over her show featuring the alleged sexual abuse victims of the pop singer. The subject of the\u00a0sexual abuse is the focus of the new HBO documentary series titled \u201cLeaving Neverland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Winfrey admitted that she and guests\u00a0Wade Robson and James Safechuck\u00a0will\u00a0face backlash from the fans. But Robson said that he has already\u00a0been getting death threats for making claims against Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey has been called \u201cfake,\u201d \u201cgarbage\u201d and other derogatory terms,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUKOnJylpQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E News<\/a>\u00a0reported. The famous talk show host has been taking on controversial subjects for years and has interviewed sexual abuse victims in her shows before, but this appears to be the first time that she has taken on an issue related to arguably the biggest pop star in history in the era of social media.<\/p>\n<p>In her interview of the victims that was titled \u201cAfter Neverland,\u201d Winfrey explained that the issue is beyond just one person, which in this case is Jackson,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?reload=9&amp;v=Db_n3PK_W5k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a>\u00a0reported. The talk show host said that the issue of sexual abuse is the \u201cscourge\u201d of\u00a0humanity.<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a lot of backlash, there has also been many fans who supported the two men for having the courage to speak up. Others, however, are strongly opposed to the \u201cLeaving Neverland\u201d documentary because the pop singer is dead and can no longer defend himself against such accusations.<\/p>\n<p>While Jackson was alive, he never accepted the accusations and repeatedly professed his innocence. Robson, who is a part of the \u201cLeaving Neverland\u201d documentary and\u00a0also spoke to Winfrey, previously said that the pop singer never sexually abused him. He now claims that there was sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"figure image\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed lazysize\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-md\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-sm\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/embed-sm\/public\/2019\/03\/06\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 1x\" \/><\/picture><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/oprah-winfrey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120485\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/oprah-winfrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/oprah-winfrey.jpg 771w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/oprah-winfrey-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/oprah-winfrey-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"figcaption\"><span class=\"caption\">Oprah Winfrey is facing backlash from Michael Jackson fans for her &#8220;Leaving Neverland&#8221; interview. In Picture: Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage during Oprah&#8217;s SuperSoul Conversations at PlayStation Theater on February 05, 2019 in New York City.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">Photo: Getty Images\/ Bryan Bedder<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s\u00a0estate has filed a $100 million lawsuit against HBO for the \u201cLeaving Neverland\u201d documentary. Howard Weitzman, the attorney for the estate, pointed out that the documentary series shows a one-sided view that is based on the claims of two people who testified differently in court.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights lawyer Lisa Bloom recently told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=49rodTV1N-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E News<\/a>\u00a0that it is difficult for Jackson fans to believe the sexual abuse claims. She said that the pop singer, like other people who are in a position of power, believed that he was \u201cabove the law\u201d and that he could \u201cget away\u201d with it.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/michael-jackson-fans-call-oprah-winfrey-fake-after-leaving-neverland-interview-2772072\">https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/michael-jackson-fans-call-oprah-winfrey-fake-after-leaving-neverland-interview-2772072<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson Fans Call Oprah Winfrey &#8216;Fake&#8217; After &#8216;Leaving Neverland&#8217; Interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}