{"id":1803929,"date":"2023-01-12T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803929"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:22:00","slug":"am-i-not-a-roberts-actress-julia-roberts-blind-sided-by-wild-dna-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/am-i-not-a-roberts-actress-julia-roberts-blind-sided-by-wild-dna-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Am I Not A Roberts?\u2019: Actress Julia Roberts Blind-Sided By Wild DNA Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fam-i-not-a-roberts-actress-julia-roberts-blind-sided-by-wild-dna-reveal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Sweetheart\u201d actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/hollywood-a-lister-says-mlk-actually-paid-her-moms-hospital-bill-when-she-was-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julia Roberts<\/a> learned she might not actually be a Roberts during a wild revelation on Ancestry\u2019s \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A DNA test and extensive research have revealed that the DNA of these people is a result of extensive research. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/julia-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roberts\u2019<\/a> family tree, historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explained to Roberts that the man she had always believed to be her great-great-grandfather \u2014 Willis Roberts \u2014 had actually passed away more than ten years before her great-great-grandmother Rhoda Suttle Roberts gave birth to the son who would become her great grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH;<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cDigging into Georgia\u2019s County archives, we discovered that sometime in the 1850s, Rhoda married a man named Willis Roberts,\u201d Gates explained. \u201cJulia carries Willis\u2019 last name, but Willis passed away in 1864, over a decade before Rhoda gave birth to Julia\u2019s great-grandfather, John, leading to an inescapable conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates added that while Rhoda kept her married name and gave it to her son \u2014 John Pendleton Roberts \u2014 Willis Roberts could not have been the father. \u201cJulia, Willis Roberts could not possibly be your great-great-grandfather, he was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPretty Woman\u201d Star was visibly shocked by the revelation and responded, \u201cBut \u2014 wait \u2014 but am I not a Roberts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates went on to say that there were no records anywhere that shed light on who might actually have been John\u2019s father, leaving them no recourse but DNA to trace her family history further.<\/p>\n<p>A search cross-referencing Roberts\u2019 DNA and the DNA of one of her father\u2019s first cousins against a publicly available database was what finally gave them a clue: they found \u201ca cluster of matches\u201d that ultimately linked Roberts and her father\u2019s cousin through just one man: Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re Mitchells?\u201d Roberts asked, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re Julia Mitchell,\u201d Gates nodded. \u201cYou are not a Roberts biologically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bet nobody knew,\u201d Roberts replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, everybody near that farm knew,\u201d Gates pressed, adding, \u201cBecause her husband wasn\u2019t there and she was still having babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow,\u201d Roberts. \u201cIs my head on straight still? Am I facing you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates went on to explain why Roberts\u2019 great-great-grandmother might have chosen not to tell anyone who John\u2019s birth father was, noting that historian records indicated that Mitchell was married \u2014 with children of his own \u2014 when John was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly my mind is blown,\u201d Roberts was kind enough to respond. \u201cIt is fascinating and, on the other hand, there\u2019s, you know, part of me that, you know, that when I\u2019m calmer, you know, can still wrap my arms around the idea that my family is my family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Sweetheart\u201d actress Julia Roberts learned she might not actually be a Roberts during a wild revelation on Ancestry\u2019s \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d According to a DNA test and extensive research into Roberts\u2019 family tree, historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explained to Roberts that the man she had always believed to be her great-great-grandfather \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1803932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5880,8848,14624,6202,12600,14623,5937,11006,8711,6195],"class_list":["post-1803929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-actress","tag-am","tag-blind-sided","tag-daily","tag-dna","tag-julia","tag-reveal","tag-roberts","tag-wild","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}