In Part 1 of "Leaving Neverland," Robson and his mother, Joy, talk about moving to Los Angeles from their native Australia to be closer to Jackson. The singer allegedly had a financial hold on both the Robson and Safechuck families. Joy Robson said she believed Jackson's extortion claim even more when the singer reached a settlement with his accuser's parents in 1994. "I was excited by the idea of being able to defend him and being able to save him," Robson says in the film. Robson vehemently denied that Jackson had ever touched him inappropriately. Robson, his mother, Joy, and his sister, Chantal, spoke publicly in support of the singer, who had told them that his accuser's parents were after money. In response to the accusations, both boys gave sworn witness statements supporting Jackson, which they say they provided under pressure from the singer and his legal team.
Robson and Safechuck say it was in 1993, around the time Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse, that they began hearing regularly from the singer again.
Robson and Safechuck say they began drifting away from Jackson as the singer became close to other boys, including actor Macaulay Culkin - who has denied under oath that Jackson ever sexually abused him - and the 13-year-old at the centre of the 1993 sexual abuse allegations against the singer. Robson and Safechuck gave sworn witness statements supporting Jackson.