{"id":185960,"date":"2023-01-13T22:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/julia-roberts-is-blown-away-to-learn-she-isnt-really-a-roberts\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:44:01","slug":"julia-roberts-is-blown-away-to-learn-she-isnt-really-a-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/julia-roberts-is-blown-away-to-learn-she-isnt-really-a-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts Is Blown Away To Learn She Isn’t Really A Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julia Roberts may forever be \u201cPretty Woman,\u201d but the cinema icon just learned that she really isn’t a Roberts. (Watch the video below.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On a recent episode of PBS’s \u201cFinding Your Roots,\u201d DNA testing and census research revealed that the Oscar winner descended on her father’s side from a family named Mitchell, not Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou’re Julia Mitchell. You are not a Roberts biologically,\u201d host Henry Louis Gates Jr. told the star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWow,\u201d Roberts replied. \u201cIs my head on straight still? Am I facing you?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy mind is blown,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The \u201cErin Brockovich\u201d actor learned she was not related to the person she thought was her great-great-grandfather Willis Roberts. He was dead well before her great-great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts, gave birth to the movie icon’s supposed great-grandfather John Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The father of John, it turns out, was a married man named Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr., who had an affair with Rhoda Suttle Roberts. Mitchell lived a few miles away, while his mother lived just doors from Suttle Roberts, Gates said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The show compared DNA samples from the celebrity and a cousin of her father’s to others in a database, finding a cluster of matches that pointed back to Mitchell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Roberts tried to wrap her \u201carms\u201d around the revelation, she still concluded: \u201cI do prefer the name Roberts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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