Seriously? OMG! WTF?

The day Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges, his teenage accuser, a cancer survivor, thought life couldn’t get any worse. "Why didn’t they believe me? I told the truth. Why didn’t they believe me?" the anguished boy cried when prosecutors broke the news to him by telephone. But in the year since the verdict June 13, 2005, the 16-year-old’s existence has sunk to an even lonelier hell. His mom has turned her back on him, blaming him for the courtroom loss, for the alleged abuse by the pop idol, even for welfare fraud charges filed against her, the Daily News has learned. "His mother barely speaks to him. She won’t cook for him. She treats him like dirt, and she won’t let him go to counseling to deal with the trauma. She blames him for the whole mess and says she wants to move on," said a source familiar with the boy’s plight. Living under an assumed name in Orange County, Calif., the boy is torn between hiding his past from the world and paying for it every time he walks through the door of his home. "Mentally, he’s really messed up right now. He never knows what verbal abuse will be thrown at him when he goes home," said the source. The 38-year-old mother, who has a documented history of mental problems and could not be reached for comment, often tells the boy it’s his fault the pop singer allegedly molested him, the source said. "She screams at him, ‘You allowed him to touch you! You allowed him to do it!’ And she blames him for not getting the jury to believe him," the source says. But several jurors on the case said it was the boy’s mom – with her rude finger snapping, pointing and irrational tirades on the witness stand – who rubbed them the wrong way and made them doubt the family’s credibility. Fueling the boy’s problems, his step-dad, Army Reserve Maj. Jay Jackson, was deployed to the Middle East last August while the mom was pregnant with her fifth child, a baby girl now several months old. The couple, who married in 2004, also has a 2-year-old son. "The mother has her new family now with Jay. Maybe she has no energy for her older kids from her first husband," said the source. When he testified at Jackson’s trial last year, the teen was playing high school football and making honor-roll grades, but this year his marks started slipping, the source said. "He has to work now. He rides his bike across town to his job [in a fast-food joint] and buys his own food. His mother won’t cook for him. It’s a terrible situation," said the source. The mom even blames the boy for the welfare fraud charges she is facing in Los Angeles County because her alleged $8,000 scheme was unearthed by investigators working for Michael Jackson during the criminal case. "Everything is his fault," the source said. The desperate boy recently reached out to a family friend, who is trying to intervene and get him help. The accuser’s younger brother, who still says he saw the pop star molesting his sleeping sibling in 2003, is "just plain angry at the world. He keeps saying, … ‘I saw him do it!’" the source said. "[The accuser] just keeps saying, ‘I wish I never met Michael Jackson. He ruined my life,’" said the source.

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Ex-Pal Sues Michael Jackson

One man noticeably missing from the Michael Jackson molestation trial — in which the debt-laden super star was acquitted of child molestation charges — was Michael’s longtime — and now ex-confidante — Marc Schaffel.

Now, Schaffel, a former porn film producer, is finally speaking out on the things he saw as part of Michael’s inner circle.

"Did you ever see anything inappropriate go on between Michael Jackson and a little boy?" Access’ Tony Potts asked.

"He thinks I would say it’s not an alley I really want to go down right now," Marc told Tony. "I don’t believe it to be in Michael’s best interest to be gallivanting around orphanages with tons of kids running around even for public speculation, let alone his own."

Marc is a former business associate and best friend of Michael’s. They’ve been close since the late 1990s – so close, that back in 2002, Marc’s father got a personal birthday message from Michael:

"Happy birthday! This is Michael Jackson calling to say have a wonderful, magical, lovely day today," said Michael, on the recording.

Michael trusted Marc so much that after the devastating Martin Bashir documentary that tarnishedMichael’s image, the popstar askedSchaffelto produce two, now infamous,rebuttal specials in 2003.

But like most of Michael’s associates, the relationship took a turn for the worse.

Now, Marc is suing Michael for more than $3 million in what he claims are unpaid fees from the specials, as well as personal loans.

"In your lawsuit it does state that (Michael’s) inability to handle his drugs and alcohol would lend him at times to call you in the middle of the night with outrageous demands for cash and money and what have you," Tony said. "What kind of drugs?"

"Liquor, pills, sleeping pills, Zantac’s pain killers, things along those lines," Marc told Tony.

"A lot of prescribed drugs?" Tony asked.

"Many, many, prescribed drugs," Marc said.

"Firsthand knowledge? Cocaine? Any of the hard drugs?" Tony asked.

"No comment," Marc said.

But Marc did reveala shocking allegation about Michael’s nose to Access.

"Realistically, Michael Jackson really doesn’t have a nose?" Tony asked.

"He has holes on the side of his nose, which, you know, during times when his nose isn’t completely covered, you know, will make a wheezing sound through the nose, and that’s been heard quite a bit," Marc explained.

What about the surgeries?

"We know that he has had work," Tony said.

"He’s had work," Marc said. "I mean nobody obviously would put themselves in a position to have their nose be like that, where you have to have it taped up or use putty on it," Marc said.

"So, Michael Jackson would have to tape it up, as you say or putty it to make it look somewhat normal?" Tony asked.

"Yeah," Marc said. "There is obviously no doubt about that."

And as for Michael’s extravagant spending sprees, according to Schaffel, other people often paid the bills.

"Michael obviously shops quite a bit," Marc told Tony. "Michael likes to do things. Michael doesn’t have access through his normal channels. Michael doesn’t carry credit cards.

"Does he carry cash?" Tony asked.

"He carries cash when somebody gives him cash," Marc said.

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