At least that was the spin from the singer's camp as the first week of his child-molestation trial in Santa Maria, California, wrapped with a prosecution exhibit depicting Jackson in a glowing light and a prosecution witness being forced to explain contradictory statements.
For the second day in a row, the star witness was the 18-year-old sister of the boy, now 15, who accused Jackson of getting him drunk and then masturbating him in the entertainer's bedroom at Neverland Ranch. Jackson is also accused of conspiring to keep the family under wraps and plotting to shuttle them off to Brazil. The 46-year-old pop star has pleaded innocent to all charges.
Much of Friday's morning session was spent with Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon playing a video of the accuser and his family praising Jackson as the man who healed them, spiritually and physically.
"We were broken and Michael fixed us," the accuser's mother is seen saying in the video, per the Associated Press.
In another segment, the mother said it was a "wish come true to see my children interact with a father role model."
In the video, shot in February 2003, the boy who would say he was molested by Jackson within the next month credited the star with curing him of cancer.
"We were driving up the hill, and [Jackson] told me, 'You need to get better,'" the boy, then 13, said, per the AP. "He told me, 'You need to eat up all those cancer cells like Pac-Man.' I never forgot that."
Sneddon has argued the family was forced to make the video.
While the sister didn't talk of arm-twisting, she did make it sound as if her family was overwhelmed in the days following the Feb. 6, 2003, ABC debut of the Martin Bashir documentary, Living with Michael Jackson.
On Thursday, the sister testified Jackson seemed "upset" by the Bashir special, which showed him holding hands with her eldest brother, and didn't want her family to see it. In whirlwind fashion, the family was flown to Miami, then back to Neverland, then taken to the home of Jackson's videographer where the rebuttal video was made, the sister said.
The footage was later featured in the special, Michael Jackson, Take Two: The Interview They Wouldn't Show You, which aired on Fox on Feb. 20, 2003.
The sister was seen crying in the DVD played in court--"tears streaming down her face," as the AP put it, as she described Jackson as a "very caring, humble man."
On Thursday, under questioning by Sneddon, the sister said her tears were for her brother who was being called names in the wake of the Bashir special.
Outside the courthouse, Jackson publicist Ramone Bain nearly gloated to reporters over the day's events.
"This appears to have been a good week for us, because the prosecution witnesses have turned into defense witnesses," Bain said.