Audio recordings detailing pop icon Michael Jackson‘s ‘intimate’ thoughts on children will be revealed in a new docuseries.
The unearthed tapes were secured for a four-part Channel 4 series called The Trial, which is set to premiere in the UK on February 4.
It will detail new revelations from the pop icon‘s 2005 child molestation trial.
In one particularly chilling clip obtained by the New York Post, Jackson detailed his reliance on a relationship with children.
‘If you told me right now…Michael, you could never see another child…I would kill myself,’ he said.
In the trailer for the forthcoming docuseries, Jackson implied that kids naturally gravitated toward him.
‘Children want to just touch me and hug me,’ he said in one recording.
‘Kids end up falling in love with my personality,’ he added in another. ‘Sometimes it gets me into trouble.’
New audio recordings of pop icon Michael Jackson revealed his intimate relationship with children ahead of a new docuseries
Jackson was accused of molestation by cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo (left)
Wade Robson (pictured) testified in Jackson’s defense in 2005 only to claim he lied years later
Many families, including the Robsons (pictured), became frequent guests at Neverland Ranch
An insider told the Post: ‘There is something extremely unusual and eerie about Michael Jackson’s infatuation with children.
‘To hear his voice discuss children in this manner, given he had been accused on molestation, raises many questions about his mental health, mindset and sadly, intentions.
‘This is Michael at his most open, giving us an insight into how he was in love with children… infatuated with wanting to be around them.’
Jackson admitted to allowing children into his home and even into his bed without parental supervision.
His former public relations advisor revealed in the series that he ‘absolutely’ believed the allegations against the popstar, reported the Telegraph.
‘I believe there was a cover-up for so many years,’ he said.
Michael Jackson (far right) was known for being fond of children and inviting them to his home
In audio recording, Jackson said ‘children want to just touch me and hug me’
Jackson’s Neverland Ranch was renowned and later the subject of the documentary Leaving Neverland
The tapes are believed to give more insight into Jackson’s relationship with young cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo.
Arvizon accused him of sexual molestation in 2005, saying Jackson showed him pornography and gave him alcohol.
The indictment included four counts of child molestation, four counts of getting a child drunk with the purpose of molestation and of conspiring to hold a boy and his family at his infamous California ranch, Neverland.
Following a four-month trial, Jackson was acquitted of all 14 charges.
Wade Robson and James Safechuck were close friends of Jackson’s in their childhood.
They each testified in his defense but later admitted to lying to protect the singer.
Both were featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, in which they detailed the singer’s alleged abuse.
Jackson’s estate still vehemently denies all child molestation accusations against him.
Jackson was acquitted of all charged after his 2005 trial. He died four years later
Michael Jackson had three children of his own Bigi (center), Paris (right of center) and Prince (right)
Jackson was accused of forcing a child and his family to stay at his Neverland ranch in California
He had three children of his own, Prince, Bigi (formerly Blanket) and Paris, who described him as ‘the best father you could ever imagine,’ per People.
Jackson died of an overdose on a prescription anesthetic just four years after the trial concluded.
