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The mother of Michael Jackson's accuser spent her fourth tireless day on the stand Monday, wagging her finger at the pop star as she told jurors she had the real dirt on the "Man in the Mirror."

"He's managed to fool the world," she said indignantly. "I was one woman on the inside. What he puts out to the world is not who he really is. And now because of this criminal case, people now know who he really is."

She testified that Jackson coerced her and her three children into false imprisonment at his ranch, Neverland, by convincing her during a "lovey dovey" conversation that she needed his protection from "the killers."

"He told me that my family was going to be killed," the mother said, adding, "I believed everything Michael told me."

In time, however, she said she came to see that Jackson's aides and unindicted co-conspirators — the men who chaperoned her to and from Neverland, beauty salons and shopping trips — were the real killers.

"They had many ways to make my family disappear," the witness said. One of the ways she believed they might erase her family, she later shared with investigators, was to launch them far away from Neverland in a hot air balloon.

When defense attorney Thomas Mesereau reminded her of that lofty idea Monday, she confirmed it. She also insisted that she never contacted police during her alleged two-month long imprisonment because she feared Jackson would have her family killed.

Jackson is on trial for allegedly holding the woman and her three children against their will at his Neverland ranch after a damaging documentary showed Jackson in a loving embrace with the accuser, a 13-year-old cancer survivor who was a frequent sleepover guest.

Prosecutors say that after spiriting the accuser and his family away from the public eye, Jackson molested the boy repeatedly in February or March 2003.

According to the witness, she did not know her son was being molested until many months after the alleged escape.

"You claim you first learned about any alleged molestation in September of 2003, correct?" Mesereau asked her before concluding his cross-examination.

"I don't understand what he's saying," the witness told jurors, "but I came to learn little by little ..."

Mesereau interrupted her and forcefully repeated the question: "You claim you first learned about any alleged molestation in September of 2003, from [district attorney] Tom Sneddon, [lead investigator] Steven Robell and [lieutenant] Jeff Klapakis?"

"Yes," she said.

Jackson claims he is being victimized by a family he once treated like his own. His defense has attempted to paint the mother as a litigious, celebrityobsessed woman who has her sights set on the pop star's riches.

She repeatedly denied having any intention of filing a civil suit against the singer.

Jackson faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

'Escape' from Neverland

By the end of cross-examination, the mother's demeanor on the stand seemed more subdued and lethargic compared to last week's feisty testimony, which was marked by laughter, tears, mania and solemnity.

Some of her habits remained, however. She often addresses jurors in a conversational tone. She greets the panel with a "good morning" when she first takes her seat. She offered a "bless you" when one sneezed and alerted a bailiff when another appeared to need his attention.

Unfailingly, she turns to face the jurors when answering.

Jackson has remained expressionless. At one point, he shook his head slowly and peered over at the jurors as if to gauge whether they were believing the witness.

She was forced again Monday to answer to her own inconsistent statements. "They told me this would appease the killers," she said to explain why she continually heaped praise on Jackson in taped interviews and written statements made during her alleged captivity.

When confronted with receipts showing the mother was treated to a body wax, clothing and luggage for her and her children, she answered with a phrase she has repeatedly used during trial: "It was all part of the choreography" of Michael Jackson's "positive PR people."

The prosecutor objected to his own witness's testimony as nonresponsive about a half dozen times Monday when she strayed into tangents about Jackson's "positive PR people."

According to the witness, the positive PR people — namely four of Jackson's five unindicted co-conspirators Frank Tyson, Vincent Amen, Ronald Konitzer and Dieter Wiesner — constantly monitored her phone conversations, watched her and her parents, and planned to send her and her children to Brazil in early March 2003 to silence them.

When asked by Mesereau if she truly believed that Jackson, the most famous person in the world, was arranging to have her family kidnapped, she replied, "All I know is what I saw and what I knew. They were making me and my children leave the country."

"You were leaving the country for one week, isn't that correct?" Mesereau asked.

"No. Until they said," she replied.

Although the mother has been an uneven witness, she has not faltered in her conviction during two days of intense cross-examination that she and her three children were falsely imprisoned by Jackson and his aides.

She told jurors that Jackson, a man who has publicly claimed to identify most with Peter Pan, had effectively stolen away her children's affections.

"They were separating me from my children. By the end, I had no control over them, I lost them," she said.

When they finally escaped from Neverland, the mother said, she began "the process of deprogramming my children from being brainwashed."