Michael Jackson was one of the most famous teenagers on the planet. He had already performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. He had toured the world. His face was on magazine covers globally.

And a group of Jehovah's Witness elders thought his hair was a problem.

In this excerpt from our full 45-minute interview, Darls Centola, author of Finding Truth with Michael: A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, and First Love, shares a story that has never been told publicly before. Darls was there. She was a teenager in the same congregation, at the same school, in the same world that Michael Jackson was navigating in 1970s Los Angeles.

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