Julia Roberts Stunned by Revelation Following DNA Test: ‘It Is Fascinating’
Actress Julia Roberts learned something “fascinating” about herself following a DNA test. During a Wednesday appearance on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” the host explained Julia Roberts’…
Actress Julia Roberts learned something “fascinating” about herself following a DNA test.
During a Wednesday appearance on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” the host explained Julia Roberts’ great-great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts, married a man named Willis Roberts.
He added, “Julia carries Willis’ last name. Willis passed away in 1864, over a decade before Rhoda gave birth to Julia’s great-grandfather John, leading to an inescapable conclusion.”
Gates Jr. declared Willis Roberts could not have possibly been her great-great-grandfather.
She replied, “Oh, wait — but am I not a Roberts?”
He went on to explain they later discovered a “cluster of matches” that traced the actress back to a man named Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr.
“So we’re Mitchell’s?” Julia Roberts asked.
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Gates Jr. responded, “You’re Julia Mitchell. You are not a Roberts, biologically.”