Robson made a name for himself by choreographing for Britney Spears and 'N Sync.
A young Wade Robson, left, and Michael Jackson in 1987. By Sonia Rao Sonia Rao Pop culture reporter Email Bio Follow March 5 at 7:00 AM Wade Robson met his idol, Michael Jackson, at just 5 years old. He had won a 1987 “dance-alike” competition in Brisbane, Australia, for which the reward was the introduction and tickets to Jackson’s concerts in town. The two bonded, and Jackson told Robson’s family to get in touch if they ever found themselves on his side of the world.
“He helped me tremendously. He helped me with my career. He helped me with my creativity, with all of these sorts of things,” Robson says early in the documentary. “And he also sexually abused me. For seven years.”After dancing onstage with Jackson in 1987, Robson rose to local fame and spent a few years performing at shopping malls with the dance company before moving to California with his mother, Joy, and sister, Chantal.
That summer, the New York Times credited Robson with having “engineered Britney Spears’s conversion to womanhood” and working “the same magic on the too-cute boy band 'N Sync.” His many teenage fans flocked to online forums, the article noted, with one fan writing that he “might not be as famous as ‘N Sync . . . but if you gave me a choice between meeting the band or taking another class from their choreographer, Mr.
Robson had joined child star Macaulay Culkin in defending Jackson, testifying that he had slept in Jackson’s Neverland Ranch bedroom several times but had never been touched inappropriately. After the singer’s death in 2009, Robson told the Sydney Morning Herald that Jackson “changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.”But Robson, who won two outstanding-choreography Emmys for “So You Think You Can Dance,” began to draw back from his work in 2011.
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