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A warning, this episode contains discussion of sexual abuse.
In early 2019, an audience sat in the Times Center Auditorium in Manhattan for a preview screening of Leaving Neverland.
That's Dan Reed's controversial HBO documentary about Michael Jackson.
The film's approximately four hours of testimony from James Safechuck and Wade Robson,
who allege in great detail that the pop star groomed and abused them when they were children.
Secrets will eat you up.
You feel so alone.
I want to be able to speak the truth as loud as I had to speak the lie for so long.
Many of the audience members at that screening were sexual abuse survivors.
And once the final credits had rolled, the house lights came up and Oprah Winfrey took the stage,
joined by Safechuck, Robson, and a psychological trauma consultant for a Q&A.
The filmed conversation was meant to help everyone in that room process what they just witnessed,
and it aired later on HBO as the special After Neverland.
For me, this moment transcends Michael Jackson.
It is much bigger than any one.
Person.
This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption.