I was struck by Mrs Safechuck saying (at the end) 'I had one child and one job, and I f..d up'
Actually, she doesn't have one child, she has three. Safechuck has a much older brother and sister, who had left home (she says) by the time Jimmy met MJ.
I'm surprised that the older two siblings were not included in the film. Shane Robson was included, even though he had remained in Australia during the period that Robson knew MJ.
Another 'small' lie that struck me, was Safechuck saying (of the Bad tour) 'There were shows every night'. (I'm sure he said that to imply that he was 'abused' every night).
Actually, there weren't shows every night.
Here's the Bad tour schedule for that summer, starting with Paris:
June 27 1988 -Paris, June 28 1988 - Paris
July 1 1988, July 3 1988, July 8 1988, July 10 1988 - Germany
July 14 1988, July 15 1988, July 16 1988, July 22 1988, July 23 1988 - London
July 26 1988 - Wales
July 30 1988, July 31 1988 - Ireland
August 5 1988, August 7 1988, August 9 1988 - Spain
August 12 1988, August 14 1988
I don't know when Safechuck left the tour to go back to school, but at most it seems like he would have been around for 19 shows, of which 7 were on consecutive nights, and between cities they would be packing up and travelling. (And Safechucks mum / parents would have been around every time they traveled, because they were travelling with the show too).
And about those shows. MJ said he lost 3-4 lbs weight during each show, because on the 'Bad' tour he was singing and dancing 'full on' in every show. Do I think MJ had the energy afterwards to be chasing around after some kid ... stressing about who might come into the hotel room or make a noise, or practising getting dressed quickly? Nope.
If tours were fun for Michael, and he had lots of enjoyable time abusing boys, wouldn't he look forward to touring? Well, he CAN tell us that himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0SBTBcTDHo
And why white male mini-me's anyway. For starters, he could hardly take a girl on tour with him. He didn't want to spend time with adults who all wanted money or monetary favours; cars, houses, loans etc etc. But aside from that, and the reason I think it continued, is because it was simply great publicity. Here was a singer who had made a ground-breaking short film (Thriller) and Yetnikov apparently had to threaten to remove other Sony artists from MTV schedules before MTV would include 'Thriller' in their schedules. That was in late 1983.
Yet here, only 5 years later- in 1988, was a white middle class kid (with business-owning parents) who wanted to dress like MJ and dance like MJ. This kid would be up on stage with a black singer and black band, dancing in front of a primarily white audience in many European countries. For MJ, who had experienced racial abuse aimed at his mother while travelling with her, this must have seemed like a real breakthrough. No wonder no-one in his 'team' discouraged it. it must have looked like fantastic advertising for their target 'cross over' audience.
Same for Neverland (and Havvenhurst). Here were ordinary white families, not slinging racial epithets, but visiting a black guy at home, and going back and telling all their friends and relatives what a wonderful person he was. They'd seen all over his house, and he lived just like them (only with a bigger and better house and garden).
It's absolutely horrendous that instead of illustrating 'racial harmony' these guys have twisted an age-old excuse for physical lynching (inter-racial relationships) into a modern day nightmare, adding the worst of all crimes into the mix.
