{"id":185441,"date":"2023-01-13T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/julia-roberts-stunned-to-learn-shes-not-a-roberts\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:59:11","slug":"julia-roberts-stunned-to-learn-shes-not-a-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/julia-roberts-stunned-to-learn-shes-not-a-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts stunned to learn she’s not a ‘Roberts’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Julia Roberts has discovered a family secret: Her world famous last name isn’t exactly accurate. <\/p>\n
The \u201cPretty Woman\u201d actress, 55, was shocked to learn on a recent episode of Ancestry’s \u201cFinding Your Roots\u201d that her great-great-grandmother Rhoda Suttle Roberts had an affair with a married man after her husband, Willis Roberts, passed away . <\/p>\n
\u201cDigging into Georgia’s County archives, we discovered that sometime in the 1850s, Rhoda married a man named Willis Roberts,\u201d Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cJulia carries Willis’ last name, but Willis passed away in 1864, over a decade before Rhoda gave birth to Julia’s great-grandfather, John, leading to an inescapable conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through DNA archives and genealogical work, Gates discovered Willis \u201ccould not possibly\u201d be the \u201cNotting Hill\u201d actress’ great-great-grandfather. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was dead,\u201d the historian revealed. <\/p>\n