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Darls Centola

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.

Jun 1, 2026

AishaHOST
4:48
Tell us, how did you first meet La Toya Jackson and Michael Jackson?
4:52
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.
5:03
And I started there, um, when the school first began, and it was in a little, tiny house on, um, on a busy street.
5:12
And as the school grew, I went there on scholarship, my sister and I. Um, we worked an ex- in exchange for tuition.
5:22
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.
5:40
So as the school grew, it, it became sort of a, um, I don't know, an iconic school.
5:48
It was orange, and white, and this very modern shape.

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AishaHOST
46:54
... uh, from, from people like you who've experienced that.

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