Overview
- Bonaduce said on the May 28 episode of the Pop Culture Retro! podcast that he first met Michael Jackson on the Columbia studio lot and later attended the same school for working child actors, which he called Cal Prep.
- He described a brief hallway exchange in which he asked why Jackson rarely spoke and Jackson replied, "Because I'm in constant remembrance of God," a line Bonaduce says stuck with him.
- Bonaduce recalled a follow-up quip about "chicks" that ended the conversation and said the two later reconnected years afterward when Jackson invited him and his children to his home.
- Multiple entertainment outlets reported Bonaduce’s story on June 1 and June 2, but the details rest on his decades‑old personal memory and have no independent documentary verification in the coverage.
- Reporters place the reminiscence in the wider context of Hollywood child‑actor networks and renewed public interest in Jackson from recent biopics and documentaries, and they note Cal Prep is a specialized school that kept young performers in class while they worked.