DNA Testing Unlocks Incredible Family Stories | Doctor & The Diva 

Something's up there between the doctor and diva... They're on top of one another...Thought they were the story.

In my mind, the man who raises you and loves you IS your Dad. The man who shares your genetic code is your bio father.

It always makes me mad when someone says, "They weren't your real father." The person that raises you is your REAL parent.

Two years ago today, I found out I have a full sibling that my parents gave up for adoption 5 years before they had me. They were broken up when they had my sibling, and thought they were getting a divorce, so they gave up my sibling for adoption. The sibling reached out to me two years ago, and once I looked at the sibling’s profile, I learned I had a sibling. I asked my mom, and she told me the truth. I was raised believing I was an only child. But I was not. My sibling’s adopted parents live in the same neighborhood as my/our grand parents.

That's so scary, what if your married to a half sibling and never know !!!!!

Your father is the person who gave you life. Your Dad is the man who brought you up, was there for you throughout your life and is the man who shaped you into the person you are today. There is more to love than genetics.

Look how close those 2 are sitting the lady host just pushing up herself almost in his lap😂😂

LOL at reading the comments about the hosts sitting so close together.

A FATHER is the man that raised you. Anyone can be a donor, but your connection with a mother or father that raised you, is all that matters. Yes, it's great to know who you are...I just wish that there was more transparency with the children.

A testament to true unselfish love. You’re here because you’re supposed to be and what a blessing to have been loved and nurtured by an awesome family!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

When people do things like this, they should have to register the donor and the recipient and the children should be told at the age of 18 so when they become sexually active they can make sure they are not sleeping with a brother or sister

The most danger in all of this is you could end up marrying one of your 1/2 siblings, and giving birth to a child with health issues. This science area needs more stringent regulations.

Although this video is a few years old, I have to say that I recently, at 50yrs old took the Ancestry DNA test and discovered that my dad was not my biological father and that I have an entire family that I didn't know. Siblings to great-great nieces and nephews. But it did let me understand why my mother hated me all my life till the day she died last September.

I’m scared to do a dna test because I know my daddy was a HO! He fully believed in the “be fruitful and multiply” growing up he told us (3fullsiblings) that we had a few half siblings out there and we have met 2 so far. The only reason I want to know for sure is for my kids. I don’t want them accidentally getting into a relationship with a relative. That freaks me out!

Just think of how dangerous this is, to have siblings and not knoing they are your siblings and finding out that you have fallen in love with your brother or sister.

i recently meet my biological mom and found out who my biological father was. wow..i have even went down the line to the 1800s and found family members.

I wouldnt call it "deep dark secret" when the family is transparent with the quetions and raised amazing children

Sweet jesus the hosts are sitting so close I thought they were a damn couple 😂😂

This is an amazing and cool story. DNA is fascinating. Happy they have found each other. 🦋

I was saying the same thing. They are really close to each other! Yeah, no they are touching each other shoulders. There's plenty of room on that couch!

The sisters look so alike! I love to see that.

I thought the show was about them.

Hmmm is this Kimberly Locke from American Idol.🤔 Sidebar: Why is she sitting so close🤦🏽‍♀️

This makes me sad! We adopted our 5th child from foster care. He needed a family and we wanted another child. We only see him as our child. We don’t look at him any different than our other biological children. I am his mother and my husband is his father! Blood only matters if you let it. Of course there are medical things they need to know, but their parents that raises them only looked at them as their own children! They should not lessen the gift of love, life, sacrifice and parenting they gave them!

Irresponsible practice with that fertility clinic. There are chances that any of these half siblings could have married without knowing.

Too invested in why they're sitting that close to one another, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE stop making everything a THING! Beautiful story, I hope she feels more of who she is/has always been.

as some one who works in TV. im thinking due to the placement of the screen in the back and the guest they need a bigger couch!!!!!!!! obviously to me they had to sit that close to keep the shot with the screen and all the people on the couch

I've always liked Kimberly even though she never had any success as a singer but I've always liked her personality I'm happy to see her working

I love how this sister and brother had such a great Dad! Of course he wasn't perfect, buy you can tell that he loved them and was so involved in their lives. As a mom with both adopted and biological children I can put their minds at ease about their Dad and what he might have been thinking. I bet he was like me. I completely forget that my daughter is adopted, and that is even though she is a very different race! My husband and I love her just as much as our other children!

Feelings of gratitude is common in family search work. I believe it is the natural result of learning to love strangers, i.e. family.

I wish I could find some of my heritage. 66 and have never been able to connect with the man claim to be my father who passed in 92' his name I was told is Lucias Worthy. I'm happy for this family!!

Why does that one sibling on screen look like Ellen???? The plot thickens!!!!!!!!

The two hosts seemed too casual and joking around at the start for such a sensitive topic but got better as the story progressed Also what was up with the hosts just about sitting on top of each other? Lol

It's all about perspective. It can be negative or positive. Positive is a better option. A lot of people want to identify themselves by outward connections, peers, family, friends, religion, money, careers, material possessions. It's about inward solid foundation in the person you are. So you have to know you on a personal level. What do YOU value? What are YOUR morals? What is YOUR character? What do YOU want out of life? What are YOUR likes and dislikes? What are YOUR boundaries? Basically what makes YOU tick? Once you have a solid sense of self, then nothing that comes along will make you question you. Outside sources may have made you physically but inwardly you get to decide.

Wow Dad had some powerful DNA .. they all resemble

That’s so awesome while we love the one who raises us it’s important to know where you come from

The interviewer's are sitting way too close. She might as well be sitting on his lap.

The 3 bio siblings resemble strongly

Amazing story and all lovely people, wish them all the best.

It seems most people who were brought up by parents who were not their biological parents, were brought up with amazing love and care. Both my parents were my biological parents. For some reason I, to this day, cannot fathom, is why my mother hated me all the 21 years that we lived under the same roof. I realised there was something wrong at around age 7, and as the years passed, I became distant (and very bitter) toward her and the rest of my family. Now that I am much older, I have become a born again christian, I have dropped my bitterness toward others, but I do prefer to mingle with people other than my biological family.

Just WOW!!! ...but this had great results, so far. TFS.

What a great show😋!!! I have heard of stories about Donors finding their other siblings..but I must admit..this is the biggest story ever....This one leaves me 😶..speechless.Thanks so much for sharing your story, it is so interesting; and I’m so glad you guys were able to find your biological dad..mystery solved..that’s wonderful. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽. I hope and pray that things keep getting better for all of you..it’s really nice having so many siblings I bet...The only thing is since there are so many of you guys..To be on the safe side..any of your kids who marry anyone...may need to take a dna test... this is just a suggestion..

What a blessing!!! What Lovely people!!! They have each other 😢❤

This was an Excellent presentation 🏆♥️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

What a beautiful story!! Blessings to you all !!

I feel so sad for the Bio dad. Either he just barely missed meeting his children or he read the message and died from the excitement :(

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too! Lol y are the hosts sitting so close? And then when u watch more of it, Kimberly and the show guest aren’t sitting next to each other but rather there’s space between the two as the couch got full with other guests. Isn’t that weird?

Really DNA ancestry is a gift of this century I v tested with 5 different companies trying to know my roots,though it is easy for Africans as it is for Europeans,there was a surprise I never expected a 1st degree cousin who never would have known about her biological father without me testing

I took a test for fun. My dad was such a tramp that my siblings and I always said that we probably have other siblings out there. There's 7 of us by 6 different women. But we all grew up together. My two sisters have the same mom and she raised all of us mostly on her own after she and our dad divorced. Except my youngest one. He's her cousin's kid lol. It took my mom about 15 years before she got over that betrayal. Well, it turns out that I'm not his biological child. It has pretty much devastated me. I had a very complicated relationship with my dad. He and my biological mother lost custody of me to the state for abuse as an infant. His mother adopted me and raised me until I was 8 when she died from cancer. I then chose to live with my dad and stepmother who is my mom, I don't call her a stepmother. My dad struggled with heroin addiction for most of his adult life and he was abusive. But other times he was amazing. The most loving dad, and the life of the party. He was very handsome, a sharp dresser, and always smelled so good. Anyhow, it took a long time for me to learn to forgive him. But I've always been a daddy's girl. I used to think that maybe my dad was so mean because he hated my biological mom cause he would often tell me how much he really loved her and maybe he had some hurt there. She was murdered when I was 10. But now I wonder if it was because the older I got the more he suspected deep down inside that I wasn't his. My 2 older brothers mother's were Black, the other 5 of us were by white mothers, so we represent every shade of the rainbow. The two that have the same mom barely resemble one another. But I am so light that my oldest brother says that mom and dad made me with the lights on, I have a blondish reddish hair color, and I burn in the sun. So I would always joke around and say that I didn't know who my daddy was and he would always come back and say that he wondered who my daddy was too but he had a blood test and I was definitely his. My youngest sister and I look just alike, and my son is my brothers twin, so I had no reason to doubt him. Besides, my dad hardly took care of us, he was not about to play stepdaddy to someone else's. So my whole family was shocked. My dad was there when I was born, he signed my birth certificate, and he and my mother married when I was 2. He never told anyone that I can find that he suspected that I wasn't his. He died in 2014 and I'm glad that he never knew because he did love me the best way he knew how. I never doubted that. But it has left me feeling lost. I thought that I had 6 siblings but I'm not biologically related to any of them. I didn't know my biological mom well enough to remember her but I do know that I was her only child. She was also an addict, and a prostitute. My biological father could be anyone. I have tested through 4 different DNA companies and have no close matches except two people who aren't related to one another and are either half uncles or first cousins and neither of them have ever responded to my requests for information. I wish I had never taken the test because it has left me feeling lost and alone although my family refuses to believe the test. My siblings were probably more devastated than I was initially, and we have become even closer. They've been my siblings for 44 years, and that's not going to change now. I've always heard these stories, but never imagined that it would be mine too. And it costs too much money to hire a professional to figure it out for me. I have a family, I'm not looking to replace them. I loved my daddy's dirty drawls. No one can take his place. I just want to know my biological father's name and see a photo. That's all. But I would love to have a relationship with any siblings that I may have. Sorry to write a book for anyone who has read all of this. I think that with the emergence of at home DNA testing it is important for parents (mothers) to be honest with their kids about the identities of their fathers when they are old enough to understand. At the very least they could leave the information with their important paperwork to be seen upon their death. Because it isn't fair.

Wow, they are sitting a lil close.

Artifical insemination doesn't seem like a good thing to do. So the mother gets her life long dream of a child but the child gets stuck with 100 siblings. I wouldn't want any parts of that. The siblings I was raised with would be my siblings and all those donor kids would be DNA friends. People are forgetting about relationships in all of this.

Wait...is that Kimberly Locke from American Idol?

Kimberly Locke, my favorite and most talented American Idol alum who is also absolutely gorgeous

yes- the person who raises you - is your dad. No doubt about it. But really great segment-- so appreciate the complexity. I am one of those people who found siblings through DNA testing! And it has been just wonderful!

This is why people should not donate sperm or eggs, you might end up sleeping with a half sibling ,especially if its not regulated probably.

My father is my biological father. He didn't know about his family because when he was 19 years old he went to Antarctica with Operation High Jump, his dad died in surgery, and his parents had only one child, him. She thought she was alone in the world, so one day she burned all the family history, letters, pictures, death and birth certificates. This was 11 years before I was born. I might as well be adopted for all I knew about my father's family. Dad was a work a holic and used to work 16 hours and sometimes Saturdays. In college I took a course from BYU on genealogy and found out about many books writte about his family and my Mom's family. I learned even more with Ancestry in 2005 with the DNA test. I don't have relatives I know from that test from My Dad's family.

Scary thing is with 30 plus siblings out there they could marry not realizing they’re related. Ugh

The Diva is being true to type and trying to take the focus of the story from the guests. Well done family for connecting to each other.

Didn't she knew that there was ENOUGH SPACE ON THE SOFA?! I don't get it 🤣

Terrible possibility of incestuous and consanguineous relationships. Shame that the motivations of the donor were not explored, as up until the late 90s at my university, the main motivator was beer and entertainment money, which was quite significant for ten minutes' of each donor's time, and multiple donations were permitted.

Awesome But just emagin go-d forbid they would get marry to one another without knowing ? Thats terrible and horrifying!!!!!!

Heart disease is prevented by diet choices, not MRI’s, lab tests, or knowing your genetic history. Families share recipes, and those recipes have the biggest impact on heart disease.

They have all said their fathers were great and made them happy

This is awesome but also troubling...what if they had married there half sibling? I guess the likelihood of genetic abnormalities would be higher if they have the same mom but ooh, very interesting.

I initially wondered why the hosts were sitting so close but as I watched the show I figured perhaps it was done to give room for the guests who joined them.

I don’t think the host believe in personal space... I would of been like MOVE OVER

The look on Julia's face when both hosts were like "Not me & it aint me." lol

I was adopted. Born out of wedlock and given up. Later, I found my real mother, and found out that she had one child originally, left that family, moved to another state, and began a whole new life. She met a Sailor along the way, got pregnant with me, gave me up and then married a man she spent the rest of her life with. She had a son. But he knew nothing about me, or that our mom was married before and had a daughter that she abandoned. I found my half sister when we were both in our 70's and we became close. I tried to connect with my half brother, but because he couldn't accept that our mom had had the past that she had, he rejected the fact that we were half brothers. So, some things work out well and others, not so much. Be careful what you look for when you're adopted. You may not like what you find out. I'm glad to know my lineage, but for some our existence is but a skeleton in the closet. BTW, I support getting the DNA test if you're adopted. It's nice to know true nationality etc. I've found a whole bunch of cousins.

How many of these kids ( sperm donner)end up dating ,living together or even married???

These DNA test are revealing so many lies from parents

Your "Dad" is the one who raised you. Your "father" is the one who is 1/2 of who gave you life.

My own situation is different, but with some similar twists? I was raised by my birth parents, and no one could have hoped for better parents. My shocker came late in life when, at age 69, I first learned that the man for whom I was named, and whom I believed for 69 years to be my paternal grandfather, was actually my step-grandfather! My dad was born at home in rural Middle Tennessee in 1901, so there was never a birth certificate for him, not unusual for the era and area. He was 5 years old when my step-granddad married my grandmother and, for convenience I suppose (no formal adoption took place?), he was simply given his step-dad's surname when he started school. As that was the first time for my dad to ever appear on any public record, that then became his legal surname and, by the time I became aware of all of this, any and every person who could have possibly shed light on the situation was already deceased. Although I am not an adopted child, I share with so many of those an unknown biological surname. I have done some Y-DNA research, which has provided some possible surnames, but I'll probably never know for certain who I really "am"?

I often question if this practice should be legal.

i'm almost scared to take that test lol my family kept alot of secrets rumors of my father having 2 other kids before he was with my mom he was in the navy and loved Japan

I love this show. One suggestion. Change the set seating. The hosts look like they're sitting on each other.

Not to change the TV show topic, but I couldn't help but think what a cute couple the host and hostess would make! 😆👍💓💑

Parents must STOP keeping paternal secrets from their kids. Period! Plus, just because a man is a sperm donor doesn't mean he is a great or honorable guy. Having 30+ kids using your sperm--artificially or naturally--with different women is a problem--no matter how you look at it!

I have had doubts about who I really am. But at this point in my life, I would rather let "sleeping dogs lie."

This video is from the time Covid-19 was beginning to show up, and social distancing wasn't happening. Since then, we have become acutely aware of not being in close spaces with one another. Now, I have to admit the closeness is awkward for me, but they seem to be comfortable - I'mma mind my own business.

A father is not the sperm downer the father is the one who raised you provided for you and love you. I was thinking how many sister and brothers had been married without knowing since DNA search if fairly new. Imagine that you check your DNA and find out the guy you married and have kids with is you brother!

The presenters are the same colour, but different races. Gotta love the USA.

Is that Kimberley Locke?!

I hope they can find a way to connect with each other.

The black woman and white male host seem incredibly comfortable together - this must be a Canadian show. People seem more comfortable with each other in Canada.

I totally thought the Doc was the Diva's gay bestie.

Diva keeps shifting closer and closer to Dr. Is he married?

What a complex world we live in! They need a bigger couch for all their guests to sit comfortably!

I have a completely crazy DNA surprise story- involving many children... (myself included ) my Father was running quite a business in the 60's - wow

Frank is still very bitter. I hope he finds healing 🙏🏻

Why are the hosts sitting so close together, are they married?

I'm no geneticist, but at least once a day I see one person of one race that is the doppelganger of any person I've ever known, or seen somewhere and remember their face, race notwithstanding. For example the 1st woman looks like the 'white' version of my best girlfriend from church, Karla. She even moves her hands in the same way when speaking and last I've heard, my childhood friend is a translator for the hearing impaired (sign language).

During the 60's.Medical Students and Students donated their sperm for cash! They had no idea that one day, their sperm bank donation; would seek them out or that they would find his other children; as well! Father's are the ones who raised you but; it is nice to know your Medical History!

I feel so bad for the executive producer. I felt the hurt :(

He could move if he wants to .

Wasn't this doctor maligned for lying to the women, for breaking all sorts of ethical rules? If not him, there's another doctor out there with all sorts of lawsuits or even criminal charges for his actions. It's nice to hear that these children are grateful, but it certainly creates many complications

Interesting!

I took two DNA tests (one as a gift and one on my own as I didn't want to believe the results of the first one. I mean unlike these persons, my bio mom is my "normal raised mom" and my dad is my normal 'dad mom" biologically and raised), one thing I will never ever say: my "x" was never my "x"... because the love and care goes beyond DNA, in fact.. it makes them double the "x", because they loved us as their own and brought us to what we are now (and for the found DNA family, now there's more to love)

the 3 if we based it to physical features it does confirms they were biological siblings..

People remember that when a paternity test is done it's usually the father they're testing to see if he's the culprit

We stand connected.