This article discusses abuse, mental illness, and suicide.
As an adult, Robson would come forward with allegations of sexual abuse against Jackson.
“Michael Jackson was one of the kindest, most loving people I knew.
He helped me tremendously with my career and my creativity,” Robson toldThe Guardianin 2019.
“He also sexually abused me for seven years.”
Robson would share his story with the world with the help of the documentary “Leaving Neverland.”
Seeing the public reaction to it and feeling the support also helped him to heal.
“There’s a lot of release happening for me.
There’s been a lot of tears.
But this is just one of the many tragic things that Robson endured and has overcome.
Robson addressed what happened to him in a blog post on his website, Wade Robson.
The post from 2018 is titled “Father Figure.”
Robson spoke about the abuse in an interview with The Guardian in 2019.
As for why it took so long for Robson to come forward?
It was terrifying.”
Robson claimed nothing had occurred between himself and Jackson.
“I was excited by the idea of being able to defend him.
Jackson was later acquitted.
I remember silence on the phone for a while,” Robson said.
We can’t let them take us down.
Us, us, us."
In a chat withVanity Fairin 2020, Robson again explained why he had defended Jackson despite his own abuse.
“I loved Michael, and I was trying to save him.
He also told the publication he felt he was left with “no choice.”
He felt replaced by Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkinhas denied anything inappropriate happened between him andMichael Jackson.
I never saw him do anything.
Culkin and Jackson were good friends despite Culkin being a child.
What did I do wrong?”
“Every 12 months, there was a new boy in his life,” she said.
On his eponymous website, he created a post in 2019 titled “Depression.”
“Its more crystalized appearance seemed to coincide with my expanding external success in the entertainment business.
Robson discussed how his success was directly linked to his feelings about himself and his need for validation.
However, this is not the only time Robson has addressed his struggles.
But their closeness wasblamed for Spears' breakup with Justin Timberlake.
She claimed they had “made out … that night” at a Spanish bar (viaPage Six).
But did she downplay the seriousness?
Songwriter Annet Artani contested the length of their relationship.
“A long, long letter.
Like, 14 pages, and [was] basically trying to end it or something like that …
I don’t think it was [just] making out at a bar one night.
Robson had previously denied he and Spears were romantically linked.
“Britney and I had such a close creative relationship,” he toldPeoplein 2003.
“People always tried to connect us.”
The beautiful moment would trigger a change.
“Yet when I recalled myself in these childhood experiences, I still felt completely numb.
What followed was a nervous breakdown.
“My two nervous breakdowns came in 2011 and 2012.
“This opened up the floodgates of healing in every aspect of my life.”
Robson acknowledges his need for cash.
But Robson would later take a break from dance and disappear from the entertainment industry.
“My relationship with dance had become tainted.
Michael Jackson was the reason I began dancing at the age of two.
“Dance was so intertwined with him and the abuse that I couldn’t separate them.”
“I threw a smoke bomb and moved to Hawaii.
‘Agents, managers, don’t call me.
I’m done.'”
The family relocated in 2013.
Not even his wife, Amanda Robson, was aware of what he endured.
Why had he waited so long to say anything?
And it “ripped apart everything that we found sound and secure and safe.”
Amanda and Wade Robson have since created a charity, The Robson Child Abuse Healing and Prevention Fund.
“All donations received go to the Hawaii Community Foundation for the purpose of the fund.”
It gives a glimpse into the dancer’s relationship with his father and how he processed his death.
“I cried a lot that first night after receiving the news.
I cried a lot at his funeral.
After that, I didnt cry much more about him for the next 10 years,” he wrote.
“Dads mental and emotional health continuously declined.
We’d talk on the phone every now and then.
Mostly, I remember just trying to get it over with,” he wrote.
Over the next few years, they would not see each other often.
In 2013, Wade addressed his father’s death in his legal documents.
Jackson died in 2009, but Robson sued Jackson’s corporations, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures companies.
Robson’s case was updated in 2023 when the California Court of Appeal reversed the 2021 decision.
This means that the case will now go to trial.
The estate also reacted with a statement.
“We are disappointed with the Court’s decision.
Steinsapir also maintained confidence in Jackson’s innocence.
