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Kevin Kane\/WireImageLast year, the HBO documentary\u00a0Leaving Neverland\u00a0once again raised the question of whether\u00a0Michael Jackson\u00a0was guilty of sexual abuse. But a star who was very close with the King of Pop during the \u201990s tells\u00a0Esquire\u00a0magazine that he never saw any evidence of that.<\/p>\n
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Macaulay Culkin, who shot to fame as a child star in 1990\u2019s\u00a0Home Alone, was a good friend of Michael Jackson\u2019s, and even appeared in his video for \u201cBlack or White.\u201d\u00a0 He even testified in MJ\u2019s defense during his 2005 abuse trial, at which Jackson was acquitted.\u00a0 Now, in a cover story, Culkin\u00a0insists to\u00a0Esquire\u00a0that he has nothing bad to say about the late legend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna begin with the line \u2014 it\u2019s not a line, it\u2019s the truth: He never did anything to me. I never\u00a0saw\u00a0him do anything. And especially at this flash point in time, I\u2019d have no reason to hold anything back,\u201d Culkin tells\u00a0Esquire.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe guy has passed on. If anything \u2014 I\u2019m not gonna say it would be stylish or anything like that, but right now is a good time to speak up. And if I had something to speak up about, I would totally do it. But no, I never saw anything, he never did anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Culkin then relates a story about running into\u00a0James Franco\u00a0on a plane.\u00a0 He says Franco, referring to\u00a0Leaving Neverland,\u00a0said to him, \u201cSo, that documentary\u2026what do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI turned to him and I go, \u2018Do you wanna talk about\u00a0your\u00a0dead friend?\u2019\u201d Culkin recalls. \u201cAnd he sheepishly went, \u2018No, I don\u2019t.\u2019 So I said, \u2018Cool, man, it was nice to see you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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