Why didn't you say this when he was alive.

You betrayed Michael Jackson and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Man, if MJ was alive today he would have forgiven you..That's the type of man who MJ is

Let me just say this; I personally believe that Michael would still have been alive if it weren't for the 2006 trial. That broke him completely, both mentally, financially and physically. The light in Michaels eyes disappeared and he practically died right then and there. Everyone who was involved with putting him through that trial, is in my opinion a part of his death. Those people killed him, took him away from his children. You are one of them, Martin. Shame on you.

Small parts? The whole documentary is controversy

I can’t believe he just walked away untouched after he straight up admitted he lied about Michael

Martin's interview is what sparked his second circus trial and Michael's decline. Apologizing, does not remove the blood from his hands.

Martin barshir eaten by his own guilt

how two faced can this man be. incredible

Martin Bashir can rot in hell!! I just don't have the words for how I feel about him. I also just learned (listening to Charles Thomson) that it was Martin Bashir who told Michael Jackson to hold hands with that Arvizo kid during that trainwreck of a documentary. This makes me sick. That image of the kid resting his head on Michael's shoulder and the two of them holding hands is what started the entire investigation of Michael on grounds of sexual abuse. I can't believe that Bashir told Michael that would make Michael look loving and caring. He has to have known what the result of that would be. Michael was too innocent and too trusting. He should have been suspicious. It all makes me SICK.

The only criminal in the documentary was bashir

You started his inability to sleep. You destroyed him! You are responsible for his death! Evil man

Martin Bashit.

If I was Martin Bashir I would live with guilt forever, he truly started the mob back up against MJ

Like his makeup artist said, many Bashirs will come and go... but Michael was special and one of a kind and his kind soul will never be forgotten.

And now we know he also lied to princess Diana. This man is a monster.

He just out right confessed that he lied! Wtf! Why hasn't anyone sighted this further?! We're just gonna leave it at that and not talk about it anymore? We're not gonna do anything about him lying?

what a creep.. how does he sleep?

This man will forever be hated after what he did.. he screwed himself up, while michael jackson is still shining platinum

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT COULD HAVE HELP HIM CLEAR HIS NAME OR PROVE THAT THE ALLEGATIONS WERE WRONG BUT INSTEAD YOU BETRAYED HIM

If you never saw any wrongdoing or believed that he was involved in criminal activity, then why didn't you just leave it at that, rather then constantly insinuating in your documentary that he was a child molester? Why not practice responsible journalism and keep your personal opinions to yourself and allow the viewing audience to draw their own conclusions, rather then inserting them into the documentary and causing viewers to think the absolute worst? I guess that wouldn't have gotten you the ratings you wanted in order to get rich and further your struggling career. Your editing was unbalanced, your voice-overs were unfair, and your questions were biased. You are the perfect example of why Jackson was so mistrusting of the media and why he barely did interviews. It was because of self-serving individuals such as yourself who always wanted to twist the truth around and bring him down for your own personal gain. Your words in this video are not sincere because when Jackson was alive, you were saying the complete opposite. Remember the interviews you did shortly after your documentary aired? How you justified your film and had nothing but negative things to say about Jackson? It's just very sad what people will say and do for a little bit of fame and money.

No matter how much you regret, you will burn in hell for ever and ever.

MJ was extremely vulnerable and this guy took complete advantage of that. Now he wants to act like he cared. He painted the worse possible picture of MJ that he could. He got to live for six months with the greatest entertainer musician artist of our era and one of the greatest humanitarians of our time and showed no mercy and humanity towards him whatsoever. MJ made bad decisions no doubt and was a very troubled soul due to no fault of his own but he didn’t deserve what this man did to him.

"he probably was the best dancer" he is tf u mean

You twisted facts with montage and destroyed him, alongside with the trial, that he wasn't able to eat or sleep, and after all of this you simply come to admit your mistake towards a DEAD PERSON and AFTER 6 YEARS. Wow.

That!s the same false sincerity that Bashir used in the MJ documentary.....horrible. he should be ashamed of himself

This selfish man initiated a chain of events that resulted in the premature death of a true icon. For what purpose - to further his journalistic career?!? Why has he never been held accountable for this?

The comments restored my faith in humanity finally people are waking up to the truth. #MJINNOCENT . Long live King of Pop 👑

I'm glad you saying the truth now , but it's not enough because you humiliated him. No one should ever trust you to interview anyone ever again.

Martin Bashir is a perfect example of what is NOT a good journalist.

Crocodile tears, mate

How could he say this after ruining a person's life. "He is really a rat" like Michael said....

Holy shit I am seeing this for the first time and I am OUTRAGED. He really said he didn’t think his behavior was criminal?? Then why the FUCK did he edit his documentary as he did!

As soon as someone dies; everybody starts talking nice about them. How two-faced of him!

Hypocrite!!!!

Amazing... He says that after he's gone... But when Michael needed his help... He didn't have the heart to help him.

"if he dies sympathize"

Some people are too kind while others are too evil. Martin is the latter.

even though he said this, the damage has already been done.

What a backstabber! He should come out now an do a full apology. #mjinnocent

Traitor!!!

Bashir you are lucky you are that far away!

Bashir raked up some dirt for sensationalism and then here admits there was nothing wrong. Talk about two faced.

This man destroyed Diana from Wales and Michael Jackson lives. I hope he goes to jail!

Whos here after it came out the BBC covered up Bashirs lies surrounding interview with Diana.

The entire documentary that Bashir made was a type of plot against Michael, if it was not for what Bashir did, it is very much possible that Michael would still be alive today.

😥😥 Rat Bashir “Karma never loses an address”

After what ?!!! After you made him go through the hell and back after you destroyed his life and his image !!!!? Martin you have a special place for you in hell .

Thanks a lot he’s not here anymore .. why didn’t you say this when he was alive?! Oh Lord I want to slap this guy in his face !

How can anyone say Michaels lifestyle was ‘unorthodox’? Aslong as he was happy and healthy and he wasn’t hurting anyone (which he wasn’t) who are we to call anyone’s lifestyle weird? Nobody is the same, we all live our lives different and Michael did exactly that, except he was scrutinised for anything he did. He was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. Nobody deserves to live that way. This world killed that man and every single person who took part in writing about him and picking away at him as a person is responsible.

BASHIR IS THE REASON WE LOST THE KING OF POP

"Your butt is mine" - Michael Jackson

"If he dies, Sympathize" ~ Michael Jackson from his song "Tabloid Junkie"

It’s so horrible how all these people say horrible lies about Michael Jackson when he’s alive but change there tune when he’s dead. It’s so sad that Michael Jackson didn’t have anyone who understood him. 😭

He destroyed Michael Jackson’s life with the interview and disgusting way of journalism

Bashir had no respect for Michael, he was so disrespectful, MICHAEL WOULDNT HAVE TRUSTED HIM UGH

Those who truly love Michael will never be affected by BS.

BUT YOU DIDN'T BRING THOSE SENTIMENTS INTO YOUR INTERVIEW. YOU ADDED TO HIS DEMISE BY MOCKING HIM ADD TREATING HIM WITH DISTRSPECT. SO YOUR WORDS ARE INSIGNIFICANT NOW! His life style wasn't un- orthodox to him. It shouldn't have been to anyone. We all have the shadow side to us. We all need to value , accept and respect differences. It's how the world is made up . There's many different things in life n people I M not on a level with , it's human nature. However I take umbridge with injustice of any kind . This Earth plain is hard enough without creating more. Michael did nothing wrong. We've created a world of greed, manipulation and control. Mainly through the media and the Tabloids and now more with social media! We have free will but sadly it's used to our detriment as we follow like sheep , just to be accepted...love yourself and treat others the way you'd wish to be treated! We are all controlled and yet we choose to follow and accept. Man will destroy man and is doing so already . 😢😇😢

Those who made michael suffer more will surely be punished by God Just wait for karma to hit back at them Moonwalkers, you'll see the way when they'll die nd you will say God really punishes such ppl Eg Thomas steddon died by cancer, Evan Chandler committed suicide just 14 weeks after Michael's death, wade Robson's father also committed suicide

Now even princess Diana interview is back in the searchlight due to your falsified conduct in terms of journalism.

"I never saw any wrong doing myself"

You such l lier when you did his interview and wrote him wrong and you had a lot to do with breaking his heart, very nasty and cruel

The interview started the whole investigation. I remember the next day it aired every news station was talking about it

0:47 hmmmm.... Then why did you keep on disregarding MJ in the documentary!

What was the point. Honestly why do people try to tear him down.🤦🏽‍♂️

Mj would never lie #MJINNOCENT

I hate this man ..🤕🤕🤕love MJ 😍😍

Brashir is just another blood-thirsty media monster who slaughtered a beautiful man’s reputation when he was already in so much pain from repeated lies and betrayal. Karma. It never forgets an address. God bless Michael forever. He used his fame and money for good; others used evil to squire fame and money. Disgusting.

THANK YOU for posting this! Michael unfortunately only ever trusted Bashir bc Martin Bashir showed MJ a letter from Diana thanking him for the interview that Bashir did with her and it was good for her, of course, Michael adored Dainan and that was why he trusted Bashit! Furthermore, Bashir was instructed BEFORE the filming that the abuse allegations were not to be brought up-he blatantly ignored that, its why you see Michael tearfully asking him to stop. Then, to add insult to injury-Bashir was supposed to get clearance off Micael before the show aired, which he never did either!! This dickhead is no professional!! MJ's people tried to get hold of Bashir before the date of it airing but no-one could get hold of him After it did air a friend of Michael called him at his Florida home and he was in tears-makes me sick Michael was treated like this±±

I know everyone, including Jackson, make our own choices. God gave us free will to make choices, it was Jackson's choice to live the life he lived, BUT I also say, each of us, every day, cause pain on others & in doing so, out of that pain we make choices to help us through that pain. Bashir may not have sold the drugs to Jackson, nor did he force the pain-killers into Jackson, BUT Bashir caused Jackson so much pain, Jackson could not take it. I also blame the kid & his mother who accused Jackson of molestation. Jackson trusted all these people (life-sucking leeches) & they stabbed him in the back without remorse - WITHOUT REMORSE OR CONSIDERATION AS HOW JACKSON COULD REACT. Bashir & the boy & his mother are evil, they put Jackson on a "path toward self-destruction".

Who is watching this on 25 june 2019???

Here is another snake in the grass but hopefully Martin and Oprah will get theirs, what goes around comes around and Karma is a bitch. May these 2 rot in hell along with Wade and James.I will always love MJ.

Has anyone actually watched the video? He did not confess anything. Are you all blind and deaf????

people who do things out of evil in hopes to have them Dead are SICK.... SHAME ON YOU MARTIN BASHIR

Why does he say "probably"? who could be better than Michael Jackson??

He never said he lied, all he said is that he never saw anything inappropriate. 💯👌

The shit that they did to this man. Poor Mike man. It really makes you want to spend quality time with Michael and do what normal friends do. Also Martin, how long was the line of crack that you snorted before doing that documentary?

RIP❤ I really liked the interview with Princess diana + MJ RIP for both ❤

Where's the confession of lies? Talk about biased clickbait 🙄

He looks like he is about to burst into tears, but I hope he felt really really bad that day.

The thing is MJ probably forgives him..so maybe we should too.although it's hard

Interesting how he says that whilst Michaels life was unorthodox he doesn’t believe it was criminal yet when he was subpoenaed in the 2005 trial he invoked the 5th amendment and contributed NOTHING to help Michael

It's all coming out now Bashir.....isn't it!!

This guy should go to hell. He had no heart.

Where did Bashir say he lied, though? No, I guess what Jackson did, sharing a bed with other people's children, wasn't technically a crime. But it still wasn't _right._

You destroyed him!

The fact is that he said those exact things in an interview directly after the documentary aired. He said he himself had not seen anything wrong with Michael Jackson. In fact he was nothing but charming with the children as he described it. What was crappy about Martin Bashir is that he pretended to be very nice and friendly with Michael to get close to him to make the documentary. He acted like a great friend until the very end when he brought up all of the accusations and was not very polite about it. Was very harsh. Jackson actually told Martin he felt betrayed for that. Martin decided to be some mean devils advocate for the public to help the ratings of the documentary.

this is just tragic, you have contributed to the destruction of this extraordinarily talented mans life and legacy, and you say this after he dies, and nobody sees this, they just see the bad things youve said about him.

Michael may have still been alive had it not been for this man.

If you just said that when you are doing the documentary Michael will not be angry or annoyed at you.Michael is a kind hearted,forgiving,generous man...😢💔

He just downplays his part in the second allegations expecting everyone to forget lol. Anyway, this is clickbait.. he doesn't confess to lying. Bashir did twist tf outta that docu. I watched MJ's version and this man was so two-faced! MJ was out of touch, he needed help with his arrested development and body dysmorphia instead of being allowed to indulge in his Peter Pan lifestyle, it made him an easy target. Now his legacy is tarnished because nobody intervened.

I never thought Martin Bashir meant that Michael Jackson was doing things to children. He was worried which is totally understandable from his point of view. I mean let's be honest, Michael's behavior was a bit alarming. Then Martin Bashir understood Michael's character and finally sees Michael isn't a criminal at all.

He didn’t admit he lied lmfao. Fake news.

Why did you make him look guilty? Now you regret it because you know you all killed him.

Even if he hadn’t made the documentary I have a feeling Michael would have still ended up on trial

I hate Martin and I don't forgive him, but I do appreciate and respect that he actually went on television and said this, unlike other interviewers such as Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters. It was actually so, so important.

This bloke ruin Mike's career

He should've said that in his documentary

I do not think Bashir "lied" or "confessed to lying here". He clearly stated in 2004 he had concerns with MJ's "unorthodox behavior" with children and here in this video he says the same exact thing and just points out "he was never convicted of any crime." Everyone is not going to be a MJ fanatic so I understand where Bashir is coming from. I think a lot of people were blinded by MJ's popularity and high level of fame. If this was an ordinary man Bashir interviewed in 2004 the same people would likely see "unorthodox" or eccentric behavior being shown. If a 40 plus year old black man tried to pass off 3 white kids with bleached blonde hair as his own, gets super giggly and awkward when mentioning women and dating, tells you he is Peter Pan, and had extensive plastic surgery and makeup on (including permanent tattooed eyeliner and lipstick) I think it is natural to take pause. Bashir was not blinded by MJ's celebrity and while he did the interview with devious intentions he could have went in on MJ far worse than he did. While that interview was hard to watch it did shed light on how much self-hate MJ was going through and his problems with drugs and botched plastic surgeries.