Dan Reed

I, you know, I'm a journalist, I'm skeptical.

That's my default.

I don't just go around believing whoever.

You know, it took quite a while for me to be convinced that James and Wade were telling the truth.

It's available everywhere in the world except the United States.

And the reason for that is that the Jack in 1992, so we're going rewind back to 1992, HBO signed a contract with the Jackson Company to record a Jackson concert in Budapest in Hungary.

I believe it was somewhere in Europe.

And that concert contract included what they call a non-disparagement clause.

So disparagement, and it's what's important, it's a legal term, and what's important to remember is that truth is no defense.

So you say something bad about someone, even if it's true, then you are gonna be falling foul of that non-disparagement clause.

And so the estate argued that HBO, which signed a concert contract in 1992, was forever bound by this non-disparagement clause that related specifically to the concert in 1992, which is bull , right?

But somehow they made it stick and they, you know, HBO felt that they had to reach an amicable settlement with the estate and that involved taking, after six years, taking my film down.

But, I mean, you know, I always have to add nothing, none of the content of the film or the claims it makes have been challenged in any way.

Not really.

You know, Leaving Neverland is a four-hour documentary.

It's the story of basically four people, Wade James and their mothers.

And it's a difficult watch.

For six years, it was available on HBO, which is behind a paywall, right?

So not everyone has watched this film.

I'm pretty sure that, you know, everyone who's watched, who took the time to sit down and watch my documentary, Leaving Neverland, is probably quite convinced that he was not a great guy and that probably something really fishy was going on with these kids.