Julia Roberts discovers that she is not Julia Roberts: the hidden secret of her ancestors

Julia Roberts is not who she thought she was. The actress herself participated in the program ‘Finding Your Roots’ on the American chain PBS and he was left speechless when he discovered a hidden secret from his ancestors.

After researching Roberts’ family tree, the show discovered that the man who was supposed to be his great-great-grandfather, Willis Roberts, he actually died over a decade before his great-grandfather was born.

Although his great-great-grandmother Rhoda Suttle Roberts had been married to Willis since the 1850s, his death in 1864 left a startling gap.

“Oh wait, but am I not a Roberts?”the Hollywood star asked as the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr, walked her through her findings.

Program researchers found in public databases “a group of matches” that They led the actress to a man named Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr.

“So we’re from Mitchell?” Roberts asked. “You’re Julia Mitchell”Gates Jr. confirmed with a laugh: “You’re not a Roberts, biologically.”

To make things even more surprising, the presenter added that Mitchell andHe was married at the time of their affair to Roberts’ great-great-grandmother, Rhoda, and had six children of his own.

Through careful investigation of census data, he also discovered that Mitchell’s mother, a widow, lived “only four homes” from Rhoda. “Wow,” is all Roberts could say as Gates Jr. illuminated his true family history until he asked how she felt about his new ancestry.

“On the one hand, I really, my mind is blown. And it’s fascinating. And on the other hand, there’s a part of me that, when I’m calmer, I can still embrace the idea that my family is my family. And I prefer the name Roberts!said the star.

“This was a very unexpected twist,” Gates Jr. concluded, explaining that Mitchell Jr. apparently disappeared from the paper trail at the end of the 19th century. However, his and Roberts’ new ancestors can be traced back to 18th-century colonial Virginia.