Barbra Streisand Believes The Sexual Assault Allegations Against Michael Jackson, But Says ‘It Didn’t Kill Them’

Actress and singer Barbra Streisand has come under fire after telling a British newspaper that the men who say they were molested as children by late singer Michael Jackson “were thrilled to be there” and the alleged sexual abuse “didn’t kill them.”

Streisand also said Jackson’s “sexual needs were his sexual needs.” Since the original quotes are behind a paywall at The Times, people relied on a headline from the New York Daily News, which read, “Barbra Streisand says Michael Jackson’s accusers were ‘thrilled to be there’ and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs.’”

While Streisand said both of these things, she didn’t say them together as the headline suggests. This, however, does not mean that what Streisand said was any less jarring.

She was asked by the Times about the recent documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which detailed the allegations of Wade Robson and James Safechuck who claim Jackson molested them when they were children. Streisand was asked if she believed their allegations, having known Jackson while he was like.

“Oh, absolutely,” Streisand responded. “That was too painful.”

She described what Jackson was like when she met him: “He was very sweet, very childlike.”

When asked how she “reconciled” that with the way he was depicted in the documentary, Streisand gave an answer that was sympathetic to Jackson.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has,” Streisand said. “You can say ‘molested’, but those children, as you heard say [the grown-up Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”

For the record, Robson and Safechuck were thrilled to be friends with an international superstar, not thrilled to be molested.

Streisand was then asked if she was “angry” with Jackson.

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