Tatum O’Neal, Michael Jackson’s ex lover, has said that after viewing Leaving Neverland, she is not shocked by the claims of child sex abuse against the music legend.

Although she never saw anything, the actor, who first met Jacko when she was 12, claimed that it was “impossible not to believe” the boys who gave their accounts in the shocking documentary series.

Tatum, 55, claimed she wasn’t surprised by the claims during a live video appearance on Good Morning Britain because “there are so many disgusting things going on in Hollywood.”

The actress said she was having a hard time discrediting the claims made by James Safechuck and Wade Robson.

“I don’t know. It’s hard not to believe, right, those boys,” she said live on camera to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid. “I didn’t see anything myself.”

She continued: “No it doesn’t sicken me – there are so many disgusting things in Hollywood now beginning to be uncovered slowly.”

In her book, A Paper Life, published in 2004, O’Neal described her connection with Jacko, whom she met when she was 12 and he was 17.

She said that while she didn’t feel ready, the King of Pop sought a more intimate connection with her.

O’Neal states: “I was 12 and not at all ready for a real-life encounter… Michael, who was sweating profusely, seemed as intimidated as I was.”

“He jumped up nervously and said, ‘Uh… gotta go.”

Jackson was “shy” and “one of the kindest, most innocent guys I’ve ever met,” the actress said in 1995. She said that she and the pop singer spoke on the phone regularly and that they had  “a really wonderful friendship.”

Jackson said, “I was, like, in heaven. It was the most magical thing.”

Robinson and Safechuck, who say Jackson groomed and sexually assaulted them as youngsters, make a number of damaging accusations against him in the documentary Leaving Neverland.

Safechuck alleges he was groomed and raped from the age of 10 to fourteen, including in a room near Neverland’s train station, while Robson claims he was assaulted from the age of seven to fourteen.

Jackson, who passed away in 2009, always rejected the sex assault claims brought against him, and his family has subsequently criticized the documentary.

O’Neal expressed also her displeasure about Meghan Markle’s visit at Wimbledon, where some fans were advised not to snap photographs of the Duchess of Sussex, during her interview on Good Morning Britain.

“It’s so upsetting to me, because if you think of Princess Diana and you think of how absolutely inclusive she was and she would never turn anyone away,” she remarked. “I had so much hope for Meghan. I wanted her to be the next Princess Diana and it seems like it’s all about her and it’s really upsetting me. I’m sorry Harry, because I love Harry.”

“You are now a royal, you are not an actor to have a bodyguard muscle somebody out I just think it’s so tacky, you know?”

She said, “I heard Piers say when you are out in public you are sort of up for grabs and in a way that’s true,” adding that Markle shouldn’t anticipate much privacy as a royal.