‘Normal’ People Who Met Celebrities And The Super Rich In School Share What They Were Like

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“I went to a wealthy public high school in Orange County, California. When I was a sophomore, EDM artist Steve Aoki was a freshman. He chronicled his early years in the documentary I’ll sleep when I’m dead. I was there, in the same PE class as him, when the racist incident he talks about in the movie happened. The thing is, I was a nerdy kid with social anxiety, so there was no way I could defend (with) him. I was thankful it wasn’t happening to me.”

“He was quiet, mostly lonely, as you might expect of a Japanese kid in a wealthy, mostly white school in the early ’90s. He skated for a while, played on the soccer team for a while, and dyed his hair black. blond. None of us knew his father founded Benihana. Someone started a rumor about it, but Wikipedia was almost 10 years away at the time. I wish I’d had the maturity and strength of character to invite him into our group of friends.”

—47, Calif.