
Darls Centola
Los Angeles-based clinical social worker (LCSW), trauma therapist, and author of the memoir "Finding Truth with Michael" about her teenage friendship with Michael Jackson while both were in the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Jun 1, 2026
73. INTERVIEW- "MICHAEL was my best friend"- Darls Centola talks Friendship, Faith & First LOVE
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Tell us, how did you first meet La Toya Jackson and Michael Jackson?

Darls CentolaGUEST
Um, well, I was attending Cal Prep, this small private school in, um, Encino, California, which is a suburb of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley.

Darls CentolaGUEST
And I started there, um, when the school first began, and it was in a little, tiny house on, um, on a busy street.

Darls CentolaGUEST
And as the school grew, I went there on scholarship, my sister and I. Um, we worked an ex- in exchange for tuition.

Darls CentolaGUEST
And as the school grew, it moved into a big, beautiful, modern building across the street on the same boulevard, and became kind of, um, a landmark and a school that was very attractive to a lot of celebrities and children of Hollywood executives and celebrities.

Darls CentolaGUEST
So as the school grew, it, it became sort of a, um, I don't know, an iconic school.
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46:54AishaHOST
... uh, from, from people like you who've experienced that.