{"id":442524,"date":"2026-02-01T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:19:07","slug":"michael-jackson-detailed-his-thoughts-on-children-in-previously-unheard-audio-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442524\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson detailed his thoughts on children in previously unheard audio | Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Michael Jackson<\/a> saw it, children would become enamored with his personality as well as want to touch and hug him \u2013 and \u201csometimes it [got] me into trouble,\u201d the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings contained in a new documentary.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s Wonderhood Studios included the recordings of Jackson voicing those thoughts for a new four-episode documentary series beginning on Wednesday that explores his acquittal on child sexual abuse charges after a 14-week criminal trial near Los Angeles in 2005.<\/p>\n

A promotional trailer<\/a> of Channel 4\u2019s The Trial features Jackson\u2019s soft, high-pitched speaking voice asserting: \u201cChildren \u2026 wanna just touch me and hug me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKids end up just falling in love with my personality \u2013 sometimes it gets me into trouble,\u201d Jackson also says in the clip, after an interview subject explains that some of the things revealed on the recordings in question \u201chave no precedent\u201d.<\/p>\n

The New York Post on Saturday reported on another particularly alarming remark that those recordings captured Jackson making.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you told me right now \u2026 \u2018Michael, you could never see another child,\u2019 \u2026 I would kill myself,\u201d Jackson purportedly says on the recordings, according to the Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wonderhood Studios\u2019 website says the The Trial aims to step beyond the \u201cmedia circus\u201d that surrounded Jackson\u2019s acquittal to pose \u201cprofound questions about fame, race and the American justice system\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prior to his acquittal, Jackson was charged with molesting a boy, providing a child alcohol, getting a minor intoxicated so as to abuse him, and of plotting to keep a juvenile and his family captive at the 13-time Grammy winner\u2019s Neverland ranch in California.<\/p>\n

Those charges stemmed from a UK television documentary, Living with Michael Jackson<\/a>, that was broadcast in February 2003.<\/p>\n

In a March 2005 interview<\/a>, Jackson argued that the charges were the lowest point in his life \u2013 and had been brought against him as part of an elaborate scheme to discredit him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am completely, completely innocent,\u201d Jackson also said in that interview. \u201cPlease know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n

A jury found Jackson not guilty<\/a> of all charges on 13 June 2005 in a Santa Maria, California, courtroom.<\/p>\n

Four years and two weeks later, Jackson died from what authorities described as \u201cacute intoxication\u201d of the powerful anesthetic Propofol. He was 50.<\/p>\n

His personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was later convicted of giving Jackson the deadly dose of propofol as the singer prepared for a series of comeback concerts. Murray<\/a> was found guilty of manslaughter and served nearly two years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Michael Jackson saw it, children would become enamored with his personality as well as want to touch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-442524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}