About this episode

La Nej shares her personal story as the daughter of the woman behind Michael Jackson's iconic song 'Billie Jean'.

The Michael Jackson hit is one of the most recognizable songs in pop history. What most people don't know is that the woman behind the song was a real person with a real family. La Nej is a chaplain, an apologetics teacher, a Biola grad, and someone I've known since the mid-90s. She's also the daughter of the woman the world remembers as Billy Jean. In this conversation La Nej walks through her childhood: being told Michael Jackson was her father, camping outside his Encino gate at age seven, getting abandoned in a taxi the next morning, the years in and out of foster care, the abuse, and the aunt who adopted her at twelve. *Get a MASTERS IN APOLOGETICS or SCIENCE AND RELIGION at BIOLA ( https://bit.ly/3LdNqKf) *USE Discount Code [smdcertdisc] for 25% off the BIOLA APOLOGETICS CERTIFICATE program ( https://bit.ly/3AzfPFM) *See our fully online UNDERGRAD DEGREE in Bible, Theology, and Apologetics: ( https://bit.ly/448STKK) FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA:  Twitter: https://x.com/Sean_McDowell TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sean_mcdowell?lang=en I nstagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmcdowell/ Website: https://seanmcdowell.org Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com…

People in this episode

Host: Sean McDowell

Guest: La Nej

Topics covered

• Michael Jackson
• Billie Jean
• childhood trauma
• foster care
• apologetics
• family history

Keywords

• Michael Jackson
• Billie Jean
• La Nej
• childhood
• foster care
• apologetics
• family

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Biola

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Organizations: Biola

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