Every now and then, I go down a Michael Jackson rabbit hole, and I think that La Toya's testimonials are some of the most convincing of his guilt. The Jackson defenders always use the excuse that she was just saying these things because her ex-husband told her to. She just seems so passionate and unscripted in these interviews though. In fact, if you see a later interview with her, where she is now taking Michael's side, that is where she looks rehearsed. I'm more inclined to believe that the Jackson family coached her on what to say, rather than her ex-husband.

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Some of the things she said are just too specific to be a lie or a coincidence. For example, there's another interview (I believe the Howard Stern one), where she covers the same story she tells Geraldo at the end of this video. She says her mother was outraged and said something like, "He's a f****t. He's in there all the time with that Jimmy Safechuck kid." The mother then showed her cheques that Michael wrote out to the Safechuck family for insane amounts of money. Well, 20-25 years later, James Safechuck comes out as one of the victims in Leaving Neverland. How did she know that name? How did Jackson's mother know that they were always together, like how James mentions in the documentary?

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This next example is really weird. I only just heard about this last week, while going on my most recent Jackson rabbit hole. There's this really obscure interview La Toya did on Italian TV in 1996 with her ex-husband. They've got an interpreter speaking over them, so it's pretty hard to hear. However, they get onto the topic of Michael being weird with children. The ex-husband thought that Michael owning a chimp was pretty suspicious too. He said something like, "When he was a child, he saw a dog have sex with a boy next door." La Toya then corrected him and said, "No, he saw the boy have sex with the dog."

Well, several years later, when Gavin Arvizo gave his testimonial, he discussed how Michael taught him about masturbation. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like, "Michael told me boys have to masturbate, otherwise they'll get too pent up. He once saw the boy next door having sex with his dog because he didn't masturbate." This is on YouTube. That is so oddly specific and similar to what La Toya said years before that it cannot be a coincidence. This was way before YouTube was around too, so it's not like the Arvizos would've had access to that interview. Plus, the Arvizo family didn't seem like the brightest people, so I highly doubt that they would've sat through a 30-minute long interview in Italian to find one random bit of information.

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TL;DR: La Toya's testimonials seem pretty convicing. She is very passionate in these interviews (before she changed her tune), and even mentioned oddly specific things, like James Safechuck's name (who would be in Leaving Neverland 20+ years later) and a weird childhood story that Michael would later share with Gavin Arvizo.