Okay, so as a Black person, I instantly knew this woman was mixed with Black because we have so many shades of colors. I'm in shock that she's in shock :)

As a therapist it's crazy for me to see how many parents still lie to their kids. How sad.

I did ancestry DNA looking to match a cousin. I found ....a half sister. We're meeting this Friday. Her mom who's in her 70s said she prayed for this day. She just turned 53....and I'll be 52 in 10 days. We're both so excited

Mom’s nasty response you will never know who you are or where you come from, sickens me to my core. Making her daughter feel as if it’s your fault for the stolen waters she was conceived in.

When looking to meet a biological parent keep in mind it’s not always a fairy tale. At 13 I was told the man I thought was my dad was not my biological father. At 19 I reluctantly met my biological father. His wife preferred he did not have a relationship with me and I never heard from him again. That was 25 years ago. The rejection still hurts to this day.

Girl! A blind man can see you were not just white🙄😏😏

Hard to believe that nobody in her family knew she was biracial, it's very obvious. They knew, they just kept their mouths shut about it. She's a beautiful young lady, and I'm so happy things turned out well for her.

I did the Ancestry DNA test a few years ago. I wanted to verify my parentage to disprove the lifelong rumor that I am not my father’s son due to my lighter skin tone and red hair. DNA confirmed both parents and found known cousins on both sides. No surprise relatives. No surprise lineage. Although both parents have passed, it is good to know that the family information I have believed all my life is correct.

Her mom handled this so poorly. No matter how you feel, as a parent, you put your kids first. I'm so glad she did that in the end.

My niece was given up for adoption and we finally found her and we are so thankful.

At the age of 40, I found out why my father´s wife who I was told was my mother, hated me. I was shorter than my siblings, the only one with blue eyes and every time I asked questions I was beaten. My mother was Colombian I was told, they had no information on her name or anything else. My father came to Colombia and had a long affair with a Colombian woman who gave birth to premature twins. My sister lived only 3 days and my father a military doctor smuggled me back to Canada in a shoebox. I am well past 60 years old now and I still have dreams of hearing my sister and my biological mother singing to me in Spanish. I have been in Colombia now for a decade looking for someone who looks like me and nothing. There is a huge mental toll and I struggle to feel wanted, loved or able to love. I thank this young lady for being bold enough to share her story. I do not feel as alone as I did just 15 minutes ago. Thank you

My dad was adopted and didn't know his heritage so over the years we decided that because of his skin tone, tight curly black hair, etc.. that he was creole. He was born at the old charity hospital in New Orleans so it made sense. We looked nothing like our other cousins. I lived most of my adult life as a mixed race person. Got my DNA done a few years ago and found out my dad was French and Eastern European Jew. Total identity crisis!!

This woman clearly looks biracial, especially without her hair straightened. At first glance, I thought she was Black. I'm absolutely amazed that no one close to her thought she had Black DNA. It seems quite apparent. Her dad who raised her had to have known.

Thank you for having a diversification of guests. Not only are celebrities welcome, but every day people. We needed these moments.

Great story. It's basically my story in a nutshell. I took a DNA test in 2019 and received my results in early 2020. It was a shocker. None of my immediate and extended family members were listed. Also, I saw reference to North Carolina and the Bahamas. So, I proceeded to reach out to some of the DNA relatives and received some responses. It's only when I received a call on New Year's Eve in 2021 from a lady revealing that she is my half-sister. After an lengthy conversation, it was revealed who my biological father was. Fast track to last month, I visited my mother in Miami and she confirmed who my biological father was. So far, I have just talked to a couple of my siblings on the phone. Hopefully, I will meet them in person.

My mom was adopted at birth and found her bio mom when she was in her 40's. Also found two half sisters who that same bio mom birthed. Over 20 years later my mom and I both did DNA tests on a couple different sites and AMAZINGLY found a half sister from her bio father's side. And the kicker? She lived only 20 minutes away from us here in Washington my entire life (they were both born in California). They are the best of friends now, I am so thankful for this new technology bringing families together!

I think everyone should get their DNA test done. I found a brother I didn't even know was missing. My father passed away years ago not knowing he had another son who is a pastor. It's been the greatest joy of my life. Best wishes to her!

Parents just tell your children the truth.

I have an adopted cousin who sought out his biological parents. The biological father slammed the phone down and said, "Don't ever contact me again." The biological mother was at first very loving -- then my cousin discovered that he'd used his name without his knowledge and entangled him in a legal issue that cost him thousands of dollars to unravel. So... not every story about biological parents being discovered by their offspring has a happy ending.

Things to dna, we found the two children my grandmother gave up for adoption. My mother got to have two more siblings in the last few years of her life. Her older sisters had died and she was feeling lonely. So she got to know her long lost siblings. I feel it is the best gift I ever gave her.

Her mother is full of it. This is a horrible thing to do to a child

I met my dad at age 40 after thinking he was dead before I was born. My story is so juicy I’m writing a book about it. Glad you found your biological dad and I pray for a successful relationship with him and your siblings.

My sister and I are both adopted in the 1960's, and from two different birth mothers. We have always known that we are adopted. However, the adoption agency told my parents that my sister is German heritage. Keep in mind, my sister has green eyes, and a pretty caramel colored complexion. About 10 years ago, my sister discovered that her birth Mom was Native American from the Turtle Mountain tribe in northern North Dakota. That is, she is Metis/ Ojibwa. That means her birth Mom's family is a mix of Native American and French Canadian. My sister's birth father does have German roots. However, the adoption agency had lied. It was very common for adoption agencies in the United States to lie about a baby's health or ethnic background, anything to get the child adopted.

"You'll never know who you are or where came from," how can a Parent deny their child that. I'm sure she had her reasons but man...that hurts. I'm glad she finally came around

I am freckled with red curly hair, I did the DNA test and found out that my family had a plantation, and I'm related to a very sweet black women. We embrace our heritage. ❤

I'm 73 and in the last 7 years have been in contact with my half sister (thank you Ancestry) who is 3 years older than me. We share a father. She was raised by the man her mother was married to and never knew he was not her father until the day I called her and told her I was her half sister. Both her parents and our shared father had passed away at the time but my mother was still alive and filled in a lot of blanks for us. We're in touch every day and live near one another and are so delighted to have one another in our lives. Fortunately a happy ending.

This story is so unique because her father prayed to the Lord to reveal if he had any child in the world. Two weeks later, the Lord answered his prayer. Believe in Him. Amen!

I did my DNA test. Now I have 9 half siblings. What a blessing it’s been

I went through this exact same thing, found out I was Spanish not white…same story my mom lied 32 years later still won’t admit to it even though my dna and entire ancestry family tree proves it… terrible terrible growing up wondering why the void inside was still there…I feel you girl! So glad you received this peace and can be entirely you!! Shine bright..❤

The same thing happened to me. I took a DNA test and found out that my father was not my biological father and that I am 31% African. But it's not that big a deal. She is only 41 and can talk to her parents. I'm 69 and just found out a month ago and I have no one left to ask about it. I was told that I was part native American growing up.

I’m biracial and I have dark skin but straight hair. I can look at her and tell her she’s biracial. One time I told my friend she was biracial and she didn’t know 🤦🏽‍♀️

She doesn’t need her mothers blessing to look for her father. She’s grown

At the age of 38, I too found out my dad was not my biological dad, via Ancestry. Devastating is an understatement. I found and connected with my biological father and he is a wonderful man BUT I'm so blessed to have been raised by MY DAD. It does rock your world though.

I have a similar story . I found out when I was 22 that I was biracial and not legally adopted. At 35 I met my bio mom and a few years later she told me she didn't want me to contact her again because she feared her family would find out. After she died , her granddaughter found me and I met my brothers who are still in contact with me. I am now 62 , and have found my bio father through some ancestry research. Unfortunately he has passed. I know that he remarried and I am hoping to find any siblings.

I know genotype is the truth, but her phenotype screams mixed heritage.

This is adults living a lie and making a child feel ashamed and insecure.

As an adopted person, I can say she did everything right.

Happened to me when I was 69. I often thought I was adopted because I was that different in temperament. Finally I did the AncestryDNA test and instead of half Irish/half Canadian German I came back 100 percent Irish. My birth father, like my mother, was born in Ireland and I was not related to the man who raised me. Took only a few days to figure out who my birth father was and I left a message for a remaining half sister. She called and said hello little sister! I cried! But my brother stopped talking to me once he knew I was not related to our father. Both our parents are long dead now. Mom took the news of her affair to the grave. Never even suggested it to me even though she continued to see my birth father for years.

We can't hide the truth from our children. Telling them the truths about their real world is the greatest gift you can give them. Hiding secrets from them so emotionally fragile, are best shared with a gentle, patient, kind, and understanding way.

I learned the father i was raised with was not my father after adulthood too. I have never heard anyone express the same devastation and loss of identity that brings. Thank you for this story.

My ancestry DNA brought out lots of family secrets. My parents and grandparents all died by the time I was 27. I'm an only child and was curious about my heritage. My father had a paternal half brother born a few months before he was. Someone I grew up with on my maternal side is my 2nd cousin. It's saddening how families hide so many secrets.

I read somewhere that 25% of all DNA test come back with a surprise relative. Usually either a different bio-father or an extra sibling. I ALWAYS tell people that a DNA test is not always fun and games.

I pray that 1 day she realizes she didn't lose 1/2 of her identity. Rather she gained her true identity. Bless them and I'm happy they are building a true relationship.

Hi! That was a great story. I had a similar experience growing up. My mom and Dad had olive toned skin and dark brown hair and eyes. I am blonde with green eyes. People made comments about me not really being part of the family. An uncle was particularly cruel. Strangers would say where did she come from, etc. The simple answer is that my parents took after their Mediterranean moms, and I took after my green- eyed grampas. It does happen. Why can't we just rejoice over the amazing complex workings of our genes.

Thank you for sharing your story. I just faced this revelation yesterday and I'm still spinning.

I don’t think some parents realize the damage they do by withholding information like this from their own children! My mom shielded me from my bio dad and his family and then I found out the dad that raised me might be my dad but then a dna test confirmed the man I never got to meet in person was my dad. Not only did we have a TON of things in common, but my mom refused to let me know him and he died at 54 and I never got to meet him. And I have had mysterious health problems for YEARS and drs could never figure it out and I was constantly getting sick on and off for years without an answer and then I finally got to meet my my bio dads family in 2020. My paternal grandmother is amazing. I daydreamed about meeting her since childhood and what it would be like and everything I hoped it would be, it was even better. And I was so upset that I missed out having her in my life up till 2020. I feel like I was robbed. My bio dads surviving siblings are wonderful and treated me like one of the family right off the bat. And it was amazing. And as far as my health problems go, I finally got a diagnosis of systemic lupus. Which I discovered my grandmother has, and has dealt with for decades, and it runs strong in her family. Once drs realized there was a hereditary link, everything came to light and all my weird flare ups I had through the years finally made sense. If I had known all this decades earlier, maybe I wouldn’t have suffered so much through the years and been gaslit by drs…anyways, I ALSO recently discovered via 23&me(when I say recent I mean 3 weeks ago) I discovered I have a 1/2 sister I never knew existed. My bio dad didn’t even realize she existed before he passed. Apparently he had a 1 night stand with her bio mom and she was adopted at birth and she recently found her bio mom and she thought her dad was an old boyfriend but it wasn’t , it was my bio dad…dna tests man…they open a can of worms!

I'm really surprised and saddened by some of these comments regarding her ethnicity. She grew up white, she had no reason to believe otherwise as a child. The insensitive comments are just downright hurtful.

I think it's beyond pathetic that her mother hid this from her. If you didn't want a black biracial child, why get with a black man??? Lying to your kids is disgusting. Bottom line, nothing is wrong with being black. Looking at those pictures, you can tell something was different. Trying to pass her off as full white.... Wow.

I have a similar story. My baby sister I found each other via DNA. I was 50 and she was 40. We’re so happy we’ve found each other.

This is a great story. I have struggled with this since I was between 3 or 5 years old. My mom finally told me who my real dad was when I turned 50. She also informed me that she never planned to tell me. If I had a dad in my life I would've understood a little more but just not having anyone in my life was and continues to be hard now being 59. Many blessings to this young woman.

If the man that raised her loved her and treated her like his other kids THAT IS HER DAD.

i found out at age 50 that my dad is not my bio dad.....i was stunned at first but then, i thought about how much my dad loved my mother and me, my three younger siblings....he worked hard, we had a good home, always what we needed and lots of extras too...he has always been proud of me and never treated me any differently than the other kids....when my dad's mother died, i was given my grandmothers jewelery, out of 30 grandchildren....but then i took care of nona in her elderly years, i was the only one that cooked with her, she taught me all my needlework skills and she told me all the family secrets, except that one....he is my dad...it is not the squirt that makes you who you are, it is the love and trust ..i know who my dad is and i don't care who the squirt was....my dad is 90 and mom is 86...i will, along with my siblings care for them till the end.......

About 10 years ago , I found out I have a sibling my mother gave up for adoption at birth. My daughter was looking in to genealogy records and came across this, she tried asking my mother about when she had lived in and area. My mother lied and said she never live there. I had known she had lived in this place from the time I was a child, so for her to start lying now was out of character. She was adamant about hiding the truth. She is now in a nursing and taking the truth to the grave, she has alzheimers. I have a half-sister that she pushed away because she got pregnant when she was a teen. Lies do not promote trust. You can go beyond if you tell the truth. Be honest. Blessings to this family.

i could have saved her that money lol but there's a doc called "Little White Lies" that tells this exact story

Me and my sister are adopted as twins. We took a test ( we actually took multiple + a forensic one ), and it showed that we are half sisters !!

Awwwww..I'm so happy for her and how she can begin to heal and deal with the truths she has received!!! Blessings upon blessings upon blessings

Do you know how many black people looked at her down thru the years and knew? White people often seem kind of clueless about knowing ... But the pics of her as a little girl, I knew. Thank God for DNA. A lot of lies have been told. And every person born wants to know & deserves to know, where they came from.

I went through a similar situation, albeit growing up in the ‘60s and 70s. I had been adopted to my BM’s family. I was able to find my birth father a year before he passed, searching for a couple of years - 55 years after I was born! I met my sister, cousin and found out about other relatives as well. To anyone wondering about doing this, all I can offer is that knowing is better than not knowing. You are not a mistake and you are loved. ❤

It's extremely traumatizing and alienating being a child who is othered by people around you as you grow up and continually have to explain your reason for existing. I know she will continue to find out who she is and find home within her family.

Thank you so much for sharing this story.

Almost the same thing happened to me. I found out at 15 that my dad was not my dad. My mother was pregnant when she married to my dad. I was never told who my real dad was. I went to ancestry and I found him. Unfortunately he had died. But I am getting to know my distant family. I waited to do this until after my dad who raised me had died.

There are so many Lisa’s out there, I could completely relate to everything she said.

I think everyone should do their ancestry dna. We are all so much more than our melanin. This was a wonderful story, you now know where you belong. We had almost the exact same situation in our family. I’m so grateful that we had a happy ending. My brother in law didn’t and it’s bittersweet.

I am so thankful we have the ability to scientifically prove who we are, who we come from and where. People being dishonest about one’s paternity inflict a level of pain that they may not comprehend. My mother lied on my birth certificate, claiming I was a child of a different man than I was. I had a horrific childhood that may have been much different if I was with my biological family. My mother had 5 kids, 5 different husbands and didn’t raise, take care of nor support any one of us. I am the only one who half way survived, my older brother has never been a productive member of society and is a mooch and a thief, my younger brother died of liver failure from alcoholism at 49, two younger sisters are both addicts that have been to jail and prison many many times, both who had children that were given or taken away. My siblings and I were completely failed by MANY adults, society, schools etc.

So happy that this had a bright ending and that she was able to find out the truth and be welcomed into her family. I pray for her complete healing. God's Love and Blessings!

It is insane to me that "parents" don't feel as though kids have a right to know what their origins are!..I am going through a similar situation, and getting nowhere within "family"...smdh...it's despicable.

I can’t imagine what this feels like. I’ve had the complete opposite experience being my father’s clone but having a rocky relationship. Genes count for a lot more than we assume in these things. Glad she found a loving extended family!

I've sat here and listen to her story and read the comments as I am moved to tears because I too have been suffering mentally of a similar topic which has indeed affected parts of my mental health. Hearing her and thanks to Tamron, you have given me a part of release however with still a deep yearning for knowing. I have isolated myself so much in life that it has become the norm and don't really have anybody I can talk to that gets it/ support. I'm going to try to reach out to a support group here in my city but this is plagued me for over 40 years.... Sorry

She should watch Little White Lies. Excellent movie about the exact same situation. You're beauty and spirit is not based on the false "race" we label ourselves

I’m Black and immediately recognized her as Black. I’m surprised SHE was surprised just like many here stated. Wow!

What a sweet lady. So glad she was able to process her pain and that she gained a second dad and more siblings.

Thank you so much for sharing and encouraging others as it is not a shame to be who you are. I do appreciate the father who raised.

My family ended up finding two siblings through Ancestry who we never knew existed. One of which lived less than a mile from me. The other who used to live in the same city as I do and my niece who I never knew existed would go to a church weekly, also less than a mile away from where I lived at the time 😩 Needless to say, our family has grown unexpectedly 😅

...child ...PLEASE !!! 🍾 🥂 🍾 🥂 🍾 🥂...I 👀 👀 I watched 48 seconds of this 📹 video and saw your hair and knew you were ⚫️ BLACK ⚫️ I am glad that you are no longer in denial. You are a beautiful woman and I hope that you find peace & grow comfortable with your identity .

Her mother had no right to do that to her daughter! She should have been honest when the daughter found out.

Wonderful Enlighten Story🙏🏼 THANK YOU 💎💙🦋

Shame and guilt born out of lust and deception. Negative emotions the mother transferred to her daughter. This is really heavy. I’m glad the daughter was able to see the positive and realize there was some love there that created her too.

My sister and I did 23&me for fun. Within 4 months I log on and see a 27 year old niece pop up. My sister and I have one brother. So we reached out to her. She was looking for her biological father! We did the math and figured out our brother had been stationed rear her home town where she was born. She’s so wonderful to know. It was by chance we all took the same test. My sister and I have since done a few other dna test out there in case our brother has any more kids he doesn’t know about.

My brother and I got a shock after our father passed. The undertaker was going through things to organise the funeral. He said to mum, father ( our grand father ) unknown. We looked at mum, she said I will tell you after. Our father was conceived out of wedlock. We are talking 1920. A lot of things began to add up. But why did we have to find out this way. So sad. Much better to have told us when we were much younger, late teens or so. I don't hold any grudges. My brother would like to know who our grandfather is. I am not too concerned.

I am very happy for you. Congratulations. I met my daughter’s biological dad when I was young in my country. He is from US. He left when I was expecting the first few weeks. He told me he will come back soon. I waited for him and he never came back and never wrote to me. I write to him and he didn’t answer. We came to US in 1972 when she was four years old. Three years ago, she took a DNA text and found her biological dad who lives in Florida. They called each other on and off for a few months. She was 50 then. He asked if she needed any financial help, she said she just wanted to know him. After a few months, he did not call or wanted to meet her. It has been like this for 3 or more years. I advised her to call him but she declined. It is a sad ending.

Forty odd years ago I worked with a guy whose wife had their third child. They both had medium brown hair as did their two other children. His hair had some wave and his wife's was straight with body. Their new baby had a head full of dark brown tight curls and dusty skin. Since he'd witnessed the birth he knew there was no baby switch. He was really quiet for weeks because everyone but him believed that she'd been unfaithful. (He and the new baby had the same blood type.) Finally her Grandma came forward with an 80 year old family secret about her own grandmother. Great great grandmother was a light colored black woman. The family had never spoken of it because she passed as Italian. Grandma came forward to save her granddaughter's good name. Great great grandma had some strong genes! Other than coloring and hair the baby looked like her daddy and has his nose and chin. A lot of people had to eat crow for gossiping.

What mystery? As soon as I saw her face, I said, "Black is in her background".

Loved the guest and her story. So uplifting, and she's so lucky that it worked out. As she said, sometimes it ends in more rejection or confusion.

what an absolutely incredible story. Powerful because it diffuses shame.

*Wow... That brought a tear to my eye. If you're Black and an older person it really hits, because it's coming from a different place based on our history, etc. Thousands of cases like this exist in the history of the world. She just happened to be light enough to "pass". What would have happened between the man who raised her and her mother had she come out DARK? Her mother was really taking a gamble! Just looking at her kid picture - that's a "Black" girl*

Shame of the parents for hiding her true self that’s awful

It's interesting to find out where you're from. Celebrate you!

Everyone’s talking about how wrong the mother was, but her biological father shouldn’t get a pass either. Both of them are wrong. They conceived her through an affair, and he had to pray to find out if he had any children in the world. That means he’s been living reckless and having unprotected sex with multiple women.🤦🏽‍♀️ You should know exactly who your children are, and who the biological parent is. He’s trifling too.

Those ancestry test will dig up those family secrets. My family as well.

Mine wasn't a happy ending but yours being happy makes me happier. It took me a long time to come to terms and heal but I did! I'm Traci ❤️

My mother came from the deep south and was very prejudiced. When I took a DNA test it revealed that I have a small amount of Nigerian DNA and a small amount of North African DNA. Having done my family history it didn't surprise me as there were several of my mothers ancestors who had plantations with lots of slaves. So now I find myself wondering which one of my ancestral grandmothers doesn't belong on my family tree. And if I'm descended from my ancestral grandfather or one of his male relatives. It's a question that I don't expect to be able to answer, but it would be interesting to know. And, of course I don't anticipate being able to discover who my black ancestors are either. It would be nice to know who they were and where exactly they came from. As I understand it, it was not uncommon for the males in a family of some plantation owners to impregnate the female slaves in order to increase the value of their "property".

Y’all kill me with the olive skin 😂

I knew b4 clicking on this…she was going to say she has black in her DNA😅U can look at her and tell she got some drop somewhere. Her father might be partially/half black. The reason for her fare skin tone. She is what they call *_passing for white_* and her mother used it to her advantage. 😢

Great story. How do I find Ms Hall's blouse?! Love it!

God bless you. I am very happy that you found out who you really are.

Huh? Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Hawaiian...??? Very interesting take by those onlookers. You looked like a beautiful Black woman to me before I even watched the vid. Most of us can tell right away w/out even knowing the person. What a beautiful, heart-touching story. God bless you!

Stevie Wonder could see that she’s not just white.

Love your show!

Why would a parent tell their child, you will never know where you came from? What did that mother hope to gain?

Her mother is dead wrong for not telling her up until now.