00:00During this whole time you're getting letters from people showing their support for you and there was one letter that caught your eye in particular.
00:08Yes.
00:09His name is Jamie and you're now married to him.
00:12Mrs. Long.
00:13Mrs. Long.
00:15How did that relationship start?
00:18It wasn't immediate that it was a relationship.
00:21We started writing on a friendly basis.
00:24He is, if anything, he was a prayer warrior and he was that for me heavily in the beginning.
00:33He came along at a point when all my appeals were denied, you'll see in the letter.
00:40It's actually going to be in the book so you could actually read the letters.
00:44So the men in your past were very manipulative, physically abusive and things like that.
00:50How did you grow from that to being able to give your trust to a man who you basically met through letters and who you didn't have that normal courtship?
01:02A lot of people still think of me as 16 and I'm 31 and a lot happens over the course of 15 years.
01:13With me and my own personal healing journey, like that came with number one, forgiving myself.
01:20And then also looking back at, well, what was it that I saw?
01:26And why did I see those things in this person?
01:29And what was it within me that put me in this vulnerable position?
01:33And what are some things that I should have looked at for?
01:36What are some red flags?
01:37And so there was many years spent working on me, spent finding myself who was Centoya outside of everything that I went through before I even met Jamie.
01:49So the healing process, like that happened like before.
01:55Now when people found out you were married, they started to raise some eyebrows because, you know, he was in a previous marriage with a singer and she, you know, put her opinion out there.
02:06So how do you feel about people like possibly giving your marriage a side eye as far as, you know, maybe he's taking advantage of your, I wouldn't say celebrity, but you're well known now.
02:18Like social media has its good, but then it also has people who like just think that they know you.
02:26They invite themselves like into your personal matters.
02:30There's a certain element of if you put yourself out there in the public eye, like there's a certain part that's going to be, you know, brought under scrutiny.
02:37But when it comes to things like that, it's like, these people ain't in my house.
02:41So I don't give it much stock, like whenever that door closes and it's just us, like that's what it is.
02:46It doesn't affect, I'm not going to allow it to affect and my family feels the same way.
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