Long Lost Sisters Reunited by DNA Test | Good Morning Britain

well oh it's just so emotional seeing you together you known each other long have you yet you've been lifelong sisters yeah yeah Kathleen tell us first what you did when you you approached the program who who were you trying to find what unanswered questions do you have about your life I just wanted to find my mother I wanted to know who I looked like mm-hmm that was what it was for me what's my background Who am I you know what's interesting what really stood out to me Vicki adopted yourself on you but and I was it was early in the episode you Kathleen you talked about and you're 63 and this justice needs to meet your mum and know you who your mum is and you talked at one point about how much you wanted your mum to look at you like a mum would look at these are carry that into your sixties when you said you've thought about it every day yeah yeah oh yeah how old were you when you were given up for adoption six weeks so you have no memories no westernization yeah the story behind that was was because of your mother's mother John tell the story why did she pressure a mum to to give you up all right what I was told was that she didn't want to want a black child in the family because your mum had had a relationship with a chap from who'd come to marry me and her mother was disapprove I mean she said some pretty strong words didn't she yeah and at the time you could understand it because you know there were some people that don't see color but as some people to do yeah so yeah and then Nicky you're brought into the story of course Kathleen comes to the program and tell us how you track down mum well we used actually DNA and the thing is I we thought it was gonna be a story in a show didn't we but it became a whole program because we just discovered all these twists and turns and then Davina was phoning me up saying I said I can't believe it and then we discovered this and when then we discovered that and I sat down and I watched it with my wife and Athena she just sat at xt about this last night yeah just sat down she went oh my god I can't believe this oh my god when when I meet Teddy your brother finally in the cafe cafe in Shepherds Bush she just went oh this can't get any better you found Kathleen's mum you were interviewing her about Kathleen yeah and the reasons why she gave her daughter adoption at a couple of weeks old that's right you had to travel over to Canada to find her and then she drops a revelation Kathleen wasn't the first baby that she'd given up for adoption which meant that then gene you're brought into the story yeah yeah and you must have also had questions all your life about who your mum was who your dad was whether you had any siblings and I traveled all the way to Eddie yeah always always almost every day or at least a few times in the week I would think about my mother always oh really when you're 69 and this has been going on your entire life you've been thinking yes yes and you didn't know about Kathleen you do vaguely my adoptive dad he brought us up always said that there was this another baby because because he'd been asked if him and his wife would adopt the other baby but by then by then their marriage had broken up so he wrote back to our mother to say that he wouldn't be able to which is a shame because I mean Katherine would have grown up together did you have the same father no no no both from Jamaica four years between us got each other know each other she always wanted a little sister and I always wanted big sister and now you've instinct really no missing yes almost as if there was a knowing that there was a because I'd always thought about sister for his Kathleen might have known my father but unfortunately you you met the brother and he revealed yeah yes he died just in 2017 but I just this this this I think we've done you mention 10 years I think this is one of the most extraordinary hours of television definitely I've ever been involved with that we've had on screen and you do this all the time this is particularly extraordinary and it's a miracle because my mom our mom was born in Uganda in Africa in 1931 and if it hadn't been for the DNA we never would have known these scenes were your Niki revealing to people like Kathleen and Jean right so got some news yep your mum's alive and you've got a sister and here's a photo of her and to take all that in in that moment is it's overwhelming to watch who knows what it's like to experience I know in it where it's incredible it's very powerful but we sometimes do cry while I do but they leave it on the cutting room but it's the stories underneath the stories and it's all our lives it's all our our yearnings to to belong as well and there we are Kathleen senior this lovely genteel woman she's great in her eighties what a life what what it must have been like for her to give up a baby in your case in six weeks because the pressure from her mum and she handed the baby over at West Hampstead train stations crying and then Jean in your case we were six months old yeah she changed her mind shutting me for six months but you know why she was tough and she she had to sort of see real life but then as I spoke to her I saw the her face changing and I saw the realization that this would this was going to happen and she was going to see her baby's white why it means so much to you what has been now that you've met your mom in Canada and you are you gonna see her again of course and you talk what is this is lasting if there have been in March I think what is the lasting impact for your life how does it how has it changed you how does it make you feel know who I am yeah I know who I am I know I know where I've come from I know there was adventurers and courageous misery very musical very musical very creative very creative yeah one fabulous bloodline to come from behind you know it's like you thicken I don't know if that makes any sense but it's not you you know you feel you know so before it's coming home it's coming home there's a feeling of contentment in son I feel full ya know to where I began this conversation I just found it's so powerful the idea that the longing for your mom all those years yeah almost oh yeah yeah and you text every day with Mummy we have a new day we have a whatsapp group clan yeah call it the clan and we all thought yeah we all you know communicate on what about your dad because Teddy was able to give you some information yeah about him yeah Jin do you know very much about your father um no no unfortunately or not unfortunately not so much Nicky thank you I'm on tonight I PMI TV it is extraordinary it's the best hours of television I've seen in a long long time and thanks to you you

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Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2019