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Julia Roberts and Me — Something Other Than Looks in Common
Life Lessons You Can Learn From Our Ancestry Surprises
Julia Roberts and I may not be similar in beauty or leg length but damned if our lives haven’t recently collided in something other than beauty. After Julia’s news last week, we are certainly sharing surprise life experiences.
If you haven’t heard her latest news — Through genealogy research and DNA testing, Julia Roberts found out, on the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” program with Henry Louis Gates, about a long-buried family secret that changed her life as she knew it. Click the link above to find out how the secret was discovered and Julia’s reaction to it.
Her great-great-grandmother had a secret affair with a married man named Henry MacDonald Mitchell Jr. John Roberts, Julia’s great grandfather was the result of that affair. So Julia Roberts is not who she thought she was. She isn’t a Roberts at all. Her bloodline runs through the Mitchell family, not the Roberts family. She’s not blood-related to any of her Roberts relatives.
