Behind the Scenes with Michael Jackson: My Shocking Experience Reveals a Darker Side to the King of Pop

WITHIN the shadowy maze of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch, Adrian McManus saw a darker side of the King of Pop as he scrambled to cover up his “sinister” behaviour around young children.

Now, the former maid says a about the shamed superstar – which ignores the singer’s fall from grace and monstrous child abuse allegations – covers up the twisted truth, including how he was the “king of brainwashing and manipulation”.

A controversial new biopic covers the life of shamed superstar Michael JacksonCredit: Getty Images – Getty Former maid Adrian McManus says she witnessed her boss’ inappropriate behaviour with childrenCredit: JDMC Jackson’s Neverland ranch featured a funfair and a zooCredit: Rex It also had creepy secret rooms

Adrian McManus believes the blockbuster, starring Jacko’s nephew Jaafar in the leading role, whitewashes over the dark child abuse allegations she saw when she worked at Neverland.

In an exclusive new interview, MJ’s former maid insists that Jackson was a “paedophile” and is “still sickened” that he was not found guilty in his 2005 criminal case of molesting former child pal Gavin Arvizo.

One of the trusted few who were allowed within , she tells us that she will continue to call him out over wrongdoing, because he “dodged justice while he was alive thanks to his money, fame and power”.

McManus says she saw inappropriate behaviour with children by her superstar employer at his Neverland ranch several times – and she even confronted her old boss in court to allege she witnessed him kissing young boys.

“When I said what I saw in Michael’s bedroom with Michael and a child, Michael got angry,” she recalled.

“He looked at me and he turned his face and I thought, ‘You know what? I’m glad I said it because you no longer control me. I said it to your face.’

“It wasn’t just me who accused him of wrongdoing.

“Michael’s side needs to let people believe what they believe and quit trying to push this picture of Michael being a great person, because there was the dark side to him.

“He surrounded himself with little boys, and that’s just the way it was.

“And they might as well just tell the truth and quit sugar coating it and trying to make him look like he was a normal man, when he wasn’t.”

is alleged to have — charges he always denied — at the sprawling ranch where he had his bedroom and private quarters bugged and also filmed his own tapes of sleepovers.

Adrian, who worked for MJ from 1990 to 1994 at Neverland, has sympathy for the many former child pals of MJ, including Jordan Chandler, Gavin Arvizo, , and The Cascio family, who all have filed civil suits alleging abuse.

She was there when Robson, 43, and Safechuck, 48, stayed at Jacko’s pad, and believes the pair are telling the truth about the sexual abuse they suffered.

Jackson hosted dozens of children during the time Adrian was working for him, and she witnessed the star “playing and hanging out” for hours with kids without parental supervision.

. His zoo, private cinema, waterfall and gaming arcades were all designed to thrill youngsters.

There was the dark side to him, he surrounded himself with little boys, and that’s just the way it was

Adrian McManus

Jackson had many camcorders set up in those areas and stored tapes in his bedroom cabinet or with other trusted members of staff.

McManus believes that MJ was the “king of brainwashing and manipulation” with a powerful security and legal team who could pressure potential witnesses into silence through fear.

to hide the alarming truth about his “unnatural” relations with children.

She added: “I’m bothered by that because I worked there and I got to know him very well, I saw a different side of him and I really don’t think he should be celebrated at all.

“That’s just how I feel.

“I really don’t think people should be putting him up on a pedestal, because there was a totally different side to him.

Jackson’s nephew Jaafar looks uncannily like the pop superstar in the film, called MichaelCredit: Kevin Mazur/Lionsgate Adrian is working on a bombshell memoir about her time at NeverlandCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

“Many people have blinders, they do not want to believe it and that’s their prerogative.

“However, I know the truth and everybody should know the truth.”

, is another attempt to clean up Jackson’s troubled PR image.

Expected to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars, it will be the second motion picture from the estate, which earned almost $300million from the 2009 concert rehearsal footage film This Is It.

It will premiere in Berlin as part of a three-day fan-event, but scenes dealing with the singer’s high-profile child abuse allegations were cut, allegedly forcing reshoots that added $15million to the budget.

Michael was meant to include a scene in which arrive at Neverland Valley to search for evidence of child abuse in 1993, but lawyers insisted it was slashed from the the final edit.

I know the truth and everybody should know the truth

Adrian McManus

Michael’s son Prince was a producer on the film, which will be released in cinemas worldwide on April 24.

Disturbing child sex abuse accusations against Jackson first emerged in July 1993 when Evan Chandler alleged the singer molested his son Jordan — and the dad vowed to “destroy” him.

It prompted Jackson’s lawyers and his private investigator Anthony Pellicano to take swift “protective actions”.

They visited — and according to Adrian, some rooms were cleaned up and the tapes and camcorders disappeared.

The following month Santa Barbara prosecutors raided the ranch but found no clear proof of criminal acts.

Cops raided Neverland in 2004, where Jackson hosted sleepovers for young fansCredit: Splash News Wade Robson gave evidence in court in May 2005Credit: Getty – Contributor

Adrian added: “It makes me sick that this movie is being released.

“The film studio executives and people involved seem to only think about money and power.

“Michael is just one giant cash machine even in his death, but no one has thought about the victims here.

“Anyone who watches this film should wake up and listen to what many of Michael’s ‘boy-friends’ have said and some of us who were around him in Neverland.

“When I left Neverland I didn’t want to see him anymore. I was tired of him and his games.

“It wasn’t just me who accused him of wrongdoing.

“There is a repeated pattern here – pointing to him having a big problem with little boys. It sickens me that he will never answer for what he did.”

Adrian worked for Jackson for four yearsCredit: JDMC

The star died from a combination of prescription pills and anaesthesia overdose in 2009.

Adrian said: “To me it’s like an alcoholic that gets a DUI and you would think they would sober up and stop and then another year goes by and they get another one, and they’re messed up.

“I compare that to a person like Michael – you like your little boys. You get accused one time. You get accused a second time, a third time.

“That habit he had with little boys was a problem – just like an alcoholic.

“He needed help and it was very disturbing to me. I thought when I left him that I cleaned my hands completely of him but it didn’t seem to be that way.

“It was very hard, I was trying to just get over that whole environment of abuse and mental abuse.

“His lawyers didn’t want you speaking about Michael or anything you saw around there.

He didn’t want any of us employees mixing with his little boyfriends

Adrian McManus

“If the children were there and, let’s say, the cook wanted to show them how to cut a pumpkin and Michael saw that, Michael would get angry.

“He didn’t want any of us employees mixing with his little boyfriends or any of the guests.

“And there were a lot of times when he would come to me and he was mad because certain people were playing with his little boys. So you knew – better to stand back.

“Now I often think that he knew he was doing inappropriate things and did everything he could to silence his employees. I speak to people today from the ranch who are still scared to speak out on what they saw.

“I understand why they are afraid.

“I will never forget Michael told me if I did anything he didn’t like, his team would take care of me, I walked on eggshells.”

McManus is planning to go into full detail about how Jackson operated behind closed doors in a bombshell new book about her time at Neverland.

She added: “He was a dark sinister human being, who destroyed many people he came in contact with emotionally and mentally.

“It’s taken me 28 years to put it all together.

“It’s been a very, very difficult thing to do because I’d type it up and have to stop for two weeks.

“I’d be very bothered with anxiety and anger. But I feel that I need to do this in order to heal within myself.

“Some people say, why don’t you just let it go? But that’s their opinion. They didn’t go through what I went through. And I am on a mission.

“By writing a tell-all about my life and Neverland, that is the only way that I’m going to heal within my soul to be able to go back to that person I used to be.

“I feel Michael destroyed that person and took away that happiness within that person by the controlling method he used in his manipulation.

“Fans can understand and put themselves into my situation and see how they would feel to be treated like that.

“I didn’t deserve that.

“I will be at peace when my book comes out to expose it all.”