Julia Roberts could endlessly be “Fairly Girl,” however the cinema icon simply discovered that she actually isn’t a Roberts. (Watch the video under.)
On a latest episode of PBS’s “Discovering Your Roots,” DNA testing and census analysis revealed that the Oscar winner descended on her father’s facet from a household named Mitchell, not Roberts.
“You’re Julia Mitchell. You aren't a Roberts biologically,” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. informed the star.
“Wow,” Roberts replied. “Is my head on straight nonetheless? Am I dealing with you?”
“My thoughts is blown,” she added.
The “Erin Brockovich” actor discovered she was not associated to the particular person she thought was her great-great-grandfather Willis Roberts. He was useless effectively earlier than her great-great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts, gave delivery to the film icon’s supposed great-grandfather John Roberts.
The daddy of John, it seems, was a married man named Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr., who had an affair with Rhoda Suttle Roberts. Mitchell lived just a few miles away, whereas his mom lived simply doorways from Suttle Roberts, Gates stated.
The present in contrast DNA samples from the superstar and a cousin of her father’s to others in a database, discovering a cluster of matches that pointed again to Mitchell.
Whereas Roberts tried to wrap her “arms” across the revelation, she nonetheless concluded: “I do desire the title Roberts.”
This wasn’t the primary historic dish to emerge about Roberts of late. In October, she disclosed that the late Martin Luther King Jr. and his spouse Coretta Scott King paid the hospital invoice for her delivery. The Kings grew to become shut with Walter and Betty Lou Roberts by way of the drama program they operated in Atlanta.
“Discovering Your Roots” has give you some cool genealogical discoveries in the previous few years, from discovering that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and RuPaul are really cousins, to confirming that actor Ed Norton is associated to Pocahontas.
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