Late singer said kids loved his personality and wanted to touch and hug him, and ‘sometimes it got me into trouble’
As Michael Jackson saw it, children would become enamored with his personality as well as want to touch and hug him – and “sometimes it [got] me into trouble,” the late US pop superstar says in previously unheard audio recordings contained in a new documentary.
The UK’s 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.
A promotional trailer of Channel 4’s The Trial features Jackson’s soft, high-pitched speaking voice asserting: “Children … wanna just touch me and hug me.”
“Kids end up just falling in love with my personality – sometimes it gets me into trouble,” Jackson also says in the clip, after an interview subject explains that some of the things revealed on the recordings in question “have no precedent”.
