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In his 2016 deposition Wade Robson said that his memories had “evolved” over the course of his case: “As it goes along, you know, it evolves, details get added to.” 
Let’s take, for example, what Wade claims about the first occasion that MJ has allegedly molested him. Acc. to extracts from his book draft nothing sexual happened during the first two nights, the alleged sexual abuse started after family left Neverland for the Grand Canyon trip.
By the time Wade filed his complaint, not only the time of the first instance of alleged abuse changed, but his alleged “memories”, interestingly, have become more detailed compared to the insecure “belief” in his book draft.
In his complaint, he describes in minute detail what he and MJ allegedly did while Chantal was sleeping upstairs. Those details are also interesting because in his depo he says “Yeah, I don’t really remember” about whether anything out of the ordinary happened that night.
In his complaint, though, he does not only describe the alleged sexual abuse in detail, but also what they allegedly did before that and he quotes what Jackson allegedly told him verbatim.
Another problem with his story is that it is not even consistent with his sister’s version.
In an attempt at suggesting that Chantal already had a subconscious suspicion of MJ, Wade now claims that Chantal on the 2nd night “expressed concern about sleeping in the same bed with Michael Jackson, and suggested they both sleep upstairs”.
According to Chantal’s 2005 testimony, however, her state of mind could not have been further from what Wade alleges now.
First of all, according to Chantal’s version, it happened the other way around: it was the first night that Wade and MJ slept downstairs while Chantal went upstairs to sleep...
... and rather than any growing “concern” by the second night, Chantal actually became more comfortable with MJ, so she too opted to sleep downstairs on the second night.
About her reason to sleep upstairs the first night she said in 2005: “Because I didn’t want to make Michael feel like two people were invading his space.”
The prosecutor tried to put words in her mouth with a leading question: “Something about that first night made you feel uncomfortable, didn’t it?” Her answers:
Let's see some more from his deposition about how Wade "reprocesses his entire life" by evolving his "memories".
It is worth noting that according to memory experts, human memory does not work like a recording device. Memory can be manipulated, it can be changed, and events those never actually happened can be added to it by suggestion, autosuggestion or visualization.
When someone says that "details get added" to his "memories" about something that allegedly happened almost 30 years ago and when someone alleges that his memories about alleged events from 30 years ago are clearer now than in the past, it is pretty much a red flag.
Especially when that person is financially invested in evolving these new "memories".
Wade is no stranger to visualizing things he wants to be "true".
Wade also likes to claim memories that are his mother's as his own. For example, in his deposition he was asked about the driving arrangement when they first went to Neverland in 1990. He is specifically asked if these are his own memories and he claims they are.
Except, we know from the e-mails between him and his mother from 2012, that he did not actually remember anything about this trip. He asked his mother about it.
I have the strong suspicion that Wade's "memories" of sexual abuse aren't his own either. He rather "evolved" them by reading child sexual abuse literature and hater websites.
His "memory" evolutions didn't stop by Leaving Neverland either. His claim about the bloody underwear is nowhere to be found in his lawsuit and there several are other such elements as well.
Such as his claim that one of the things what motivated his testimony for MJ in 2005 was seeing Paris be desperate for her father at a dinner before his testimony (debunked by Taj Jackson since).
James Safechuck also has his share of evolving "memories". For example, he "forgot" to mention an as big issue in his lawsuit as MJ allegedly making a sex tape. He didn't even mention it in the film. But by the promotional campaign he suddenly came up with this story.
(Maybe we should take a mental note of the fact that when Safechuck first started claiming this, the R. Kelly case, that heavily features sex tapes, was very prominent in the media.)
I am sure all of this will be put down to "trauma" by some as the usual convenient cop-out (even though these men don't claim to have been traumatized by the sex abuse. The whole story in LN is that they were "in love" instead)...
... but for those who are a bit more critical thinkers and skeptics than just to accept that blanket excuse, this is some additional food for thought.
BTW:"The narcissist is emotionally invested in his own personal myth. He feels better as fiction than as fact. But he never loses sight of the fact that it is all just fiction." "He is a manipulator and his delusions are in the service of his strategies."
