The Pretty Woman Actress and a Signature Surprise – Credits: @Capturas
Julia Roberts only discovered a few days ago that his last name isn’t Roberts. The famous actress, star of famous romantic comedies like Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride, didn’t have that surname and her reaction on learning the news showed her total ignorance of a family romance that led to confusion as to her identity, that of her grandfather and who his father Walter.
The actress was a guest on Finding Your Roots [”Encontrando tus raíces”] to which many celebrities go to find out how their family tree is put together, which can produce various “pearls”. That’s exactly what happened to the Oscar winner back then She was told that her great-great-grandmother, Rhoda Suttle Roberts, had an affair with a married man after the death of her husband, Willis Roberts. This is what the historian of the program, the professor and writer Dr. Henry Louis Gates with.
“When we searched the Georgia state archives [la actriz nació en Smyrna, el 28 de octubre de 1967]”We came across information that Rhoda married Willis Roberts sometime in the 1850s,” Gates said. This is why Julia has this surname. However, Willis could not have been the actress’ great-great-grandfather, as he had died in 1864, a decade before Rhoda gave birth to Julia’s great-grandfather, John.
“So I’m not a Roberts?” the star asked, visibly shocked. “No, we found a match with Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr. through your DNA and that of your cousin,” the professor informed him. This man was married to a woman named Sarah and had six children when he bonded with the actress’ great-great-grandmother. “We are the Mitchells,” said the celebrity, saying her biological name out loud, “Julia Mitchell.”
The interpreter later confessed that she could not believe the revelation. “I’m shocked. I find it fascinating, but on the other hand, there’s a part of me that’s calm because my family is my family,” he said, adding, “I prefer the Roberts last name… It was totally unexpected.” , he concluded and confirmed this will not change your last name for this brand new message, a surname by which she is known around the world.
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The news that the actress’ real name is Julia Mitchell came after it was revealed that Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King paid for the hospital costs of her birth, thereby helping her parents.
The fact was revealed last September when Roberts sat down with colleague Gayle King for the A+E Networks and History Channel’s HISTORYTalks in Washington. After that interview, the dates faded into the background until a former adviser to Barack Obama posted them on Twitter on the actress’ birthday and they went viral.
“Today is Julia Roberts’ birthday. 55 years ago, Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King paid their parents’ hospital bills after they were born. I can’t stop thinking about it since I read it,” Zara Rahim wrote on the social network, where she also shared a video of the interview.
“The King family paid my hospital bill,” Roberts said in the interview. “Martin Luther King and Coretta”. Roberts’ parents, Walter and Betty Lou, were friends of the Kings because they ran an acting school in Atlanta, the Actors and Writers’ Workshop, which was then one of the few schools willing to accept little kings.
“One day Coretta Scott King called my mom and asked her if her kids could be part of the school because they were having trouble finding a place that would take the boys,” the Eat, Pray, Love star explained. “My mom said, ‘Sure, come on.’ And so they all became friends and helped us out.” It was for that reason When Julia was born and the Roberts couldn’t pay their hospital bills, the King family stepped in without hesitation.
You learned that too Roberts became close friends with Yolanda King, the eldest of the couple’s children, who died of complications from chronic heart disease in 2007. “It was an extended family, it really was. And all these black and white kids got along, no problem,” Yolanda said, recalling her childhood with the Roberts. The eldest daughter of the renowned activist had also starred in a play produced by the Hollywood star’s parents’ workshop.