The Webster star, now 47, says he was never molested by Jackson and calls the time they spent together an “awesome experience.” They stayed close friends throughout the ‘90s, and Lewis even got an invite to the Jackson family reunion in 1990. So me, my mom, my brothers, we all took him into our house … He literally recuperated for months living in my condo when I went to work.” “I said, that’s my boy - I can’t have him recuperate by himself in a hotel,” Lewis explained to Criss Angel in 2012 of why he invited Jackson to stay with his family. Jackson moved in with them during that time. Lewis’s family took care of Jackson after he set his hair on fire while shooting a Pepsi commercial in 1984.
Their friendship raised eyebrows when Jackson tried to check them into a hotel as father and son. He also brought Lewis up on stage during his Victory tour that year, and the two spent time together at Disney. Jackson then took the child star - and model Brooke Shields - to the 1984 Grammy Awards. Lewis and Jackson’s friendship started in 1983 when he invited the 12-year-old to the set of his "Thriller" video. “I cannot in good consciousness defend anyone who’s being accused of such horrendous things.” “I don’t want to be perceived as I’m here to defend Michael Jackson, because I can no longer do that,” he told CNN. Feldman has always stood by Jackson, but recently changed his mind after seeing the Leaving Neverland documentary. The Gremlins star insists he and Jackson never engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior. “What it was like staying in a room him was that he was a total gentleman, more so than I would even be,” Feldman said. We go into his closet and he’s got this whole array of costumes, so he gives me a wig and fake mustache, and he puts on a fake afro and a fake mustache and we get in the car and we drive to Disneyland.”įeldman and Jackson then got a room at the Disneyland Hotel The singer slept on a cot and gave Feldman the bed. And he’s like, well you know, I don’t have my security tonight. I was bored, and one thing that popped into my head was, let’s go to Disneyland. “So Michael and I were visiting one day and I wanted to do something. "When I was a kid, Michael and I became regular friends,” Feldman, 47, said in 2017 on Bravo’s Then and Now, recalling a time they went to Disneyland together. "At the end of the day, we were friends." “It’s almost easy to try to say it was like weird or whatever, but it wasn't, because it made sense," Culkin, 38, said on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast. He said at the time that Jackson never molested him, and continues to call his friendship with Jackson “normal."
"We all would just jam in the bed, you know, we would wake up at dawn and go in the hot-air balloon.”Ĭulkin took the witness stand in Jackson’s 2005 child molestation trial to defend the King of Pop. “When Macaulay Culkin was little, Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macaulay Culkin was on this side, his sisters in there," Jackson told Martin Bashir in his 2003 documentary Living With Michael Jackson. Culkin then became a regular at Neverland Ranch, starred in Jackson’s "Black or White" music video and was named the godfather to Jackson’s daughter Paris in 1998. The pop star told Culkin he understood the pressures of child fame and offered to be his friend. Culkin first met Jackson when he was performing in The Nutcracker in New York City as a child, but it was after the actor starred in Home Alone in 1990 that the then-10-year-old received a random call from him.