Julia Roberts newly discovered in front of the audience skeleton in the closetr this stunned him in ‘shock’. ‘Pretty Woman’ star joins PBS platform show “Finding Your Root” researcher and historian Henry Louis Gate Jr. The field, which was tasked with researching the family trees of celebrities, was speechless, showing that the actress was not really related to her supposed great-great-grandfather. Willis Roberts and therefore he is not a Roberts.
Each week, the show’s experts trace the guest’s ancestry using a DNA sample.
Julia’s face is like a poem when the host of the show explains it. Georgia State Archives investigationswhere the actress was born 55 years ago, Willis Roberts (his so-called great-great-grandfather) passed away 10 years before his great-grandfather John was born to his great-great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts..
So who was your great-grandfather’s father actually?
The actor asked Gates, “But wait, am I not a Roberts?” he asks. He then explains that his DNA points to it. Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr. a man namedthat would be his biological great-grandfather.
Surprised, the actress said, “So we’re Mitchells?” he asks.
Julia Mitchell
“You’re Julia Mitchell. Biologically, you’re not a Roberts,” the host confirms.
“Wow,” the actress exclaims in amazement.
According to the program researchers, Mitchell was married and had six children., and Rhoda Suttle lived near Roberts (according to the 1880 census). The investigation revealed that her great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts, had an affair with that man after the death of her husband, Willis Roberts.
“On the one hand, it’s really blown my mind. But on the other hand, it’s fascinating,” says Julia Roberts.
DNA from a cousin
Gates supported his research because records from that period were unclear. using the DNA of the actress and her cousin. And they both have this Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr. with coincidences.
Despite her surprising discovery, the actress prefers the world-renowned surname: “I find it charming, but part of me is calm because my family is my family. I like the surname Roberts more” .
It coincides with the time Roberts gave life. Martha Mitchell in the show “Gaslit”She was the wife of the US Attorney General (played by Sean Penn) during the Nixon presidency when the ‘Watergate’ scandal broke out in the 1970s.