“If you can’t see that Michael Jackson was a paedophile after watching [Dan Reed’s] film [Leaving Neverland] you are being wilfully blind. And if you are campaigning against it you are actively colluding in the silencing of victims.”

It doesn’t get clearer than that. When Louis Theroux tweeted this missive back in March, he drew a line in the sand. The documentary maker’s reason for doing so, he later clarified in the Guardian, was because he felt responsible for the rehabilitation of Jimmy Saville’s public image through his own documentaries.

“In a strange sense I suppose I felt I had a little bit of a responsibility,” Theroux explained. “One of the most upsetting things for me is when you go through Twitter and you see the abuse directed at Dan Reed, the director of Leaving Neverland.”

Louis Theroux addresses Michael Jackson documentary rumours in candid Q&A