Robson's Nervous Breakdown Made Him Remember Michael Jackson Molested Him

Robson's nervous breakdown made him remember that Michael Jackson molested him.  Wade Robson was once a fierce defender of Michael Jackson, even though they slept in the same bed. Now Robson, 29, says he had a nervous breakdown that revealed a shocking memory.

Wade Robson now says Michael Jackson molested him as a child. When he was a child, Robson, now a dancer and choreographer who has appeared on such programs as So You Think You Can Dance, often slept over at Jackson's house and appeared in three of Jackson's music videos.

During Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial, Robson, then 22, defended the pop star in court. He said Jackson had never sexually abused him. But he's now withdrawing his previous testimony. He says Jackson did, indeed, molest him over the years.

 In 1993, Robson, then ten years old, gave a chilling interview to CNN. He told CNN, "We sleep in the same bed. We're both fully dressed. He sleeps on one side. I sleep on the other."

In interviews, Jackson also called the act of sleeping with children "normal", raising eyebrows worldwide.

Jackson's family is rejecting the claim. A lawyer for the Jackson estate said, told  "This is a young man who has testified at least twice under oath over the past 20 years and said in numerous interviews that Michael Jackson never did anything inappropriate to him or with him," a lawyer for the Jackson estate told the New York Daily News.

"Now, nearly four years after Michael has passed, this sad and less than credible claim has been made. We are confident that the court will see this for what it is," the lawyer said.

Robson's attorney claims he repressed the memories of abuse and, after having a nervous breakdown, recovered them recently.

"Last year, on a career trajectory that was off the charts, he [Wade] collapsed under the stress and sexual trauma of what had happened to him as a child," Henry Gradstein, the lawyer, said.

Gradstein claims that, in addition, Jackson manipulated, brain washed, and even threatened Robson, telling the boy that if he spoke about what happened "our lives will be ruined forever."

During Jackson's trial in 2005, a maid testified she'd seen the two showering together. But Robson denied this and denied all allegations of molestation at the time.  "I can tell you right now that if he had, I wouldn't be here right now. I wouldn't stand for it," he testified.