McKenna Breinholt Shares Her Adoption Story & Sings Her Birth Mother's Song! - American Idol 2024 

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Who are those people? I know one is the grandma, how about the other 3?

Thank you for sharing a little more insight- what a beautiful story that has come full circle ❤

@@Praben Amy's Sisters And Amy's Brother.

Was Derrick her dad?

Indeed.

Staaaapp!! Your comment made me crying like a baby! 😔🩷

This was such a beautiful and incredible reunion. I cried huge ugly sobs alone in my apartment, afraid I would disturb my neighbors. Crying for the loss of Amy, crying for the miracle of the birth family being reunited with Amy's daughter, and crying most of all for the incredible grace and goodwill of McKenna's adoptive family who didn't just grudgingly allow visitation to her birth family but welcomed them with open arms to join with them as one big family! This is the greatest gift adoptive parents can give their child - the opportunity to know where they came from and who they are.

Where was that? She’s amazing!!

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When the family sang along to her moms song I lost it

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@@kimberlynporter5207 For reals! When I see her again I want to check in.

The families had met unknown to McKenna at her uncles Nashville home a few nights before

@@alandevanny4089 someone that has been in a reunion, I hope McKenna’s heart will stay protected .

Exactly my thought

I look just like my adoptive mother as well. More than her bio kids do.

​@@madreep same with me and my mom! What's funny is she's half Japanese by blood (she was adopted as well) and I'm whiter than bread 😂

And you still think she's adopted

People always tell me I look like my adoptive family too lol

That’s so wonderful!! After 55 years, I got to meet my sisters and other family last June. ❤

My wife at about 43 when she found her dad using ancestry DNA thing. My wifes mother was murdered when she was only one year old. So she was flown from Florida to VA to live with her granny . Its truly amazing that my beautiful sweet wife turned out to be so sweet, because her granny was one of the most hateful women to be on planet earth, no wonder my wife's mother left home at a early age. So my wife had no family until she met me when she was about 19 and I was 22. God blessed me when I found this jewel. Anyhow we was blown away when we found this info of possibly being her dad. It took months for her to build up the courage to contact him. One evening I talked her into it. What a mistake, what a asshole this man was, he was there at the hospital when my wife was born, he knew about her, he had a relationship with the mom for the next year but made no attempt after my wife's mother was murdered to ever contact my wife. My wife was crying when she started talking to him, she couldn't believe she was talking to her dad, she finally had family after 43 years , but she was crying harder after talking to this man, what a asshole, forgive my language , but that's one call I wish we never made. This man not only lied about things as he was talking he kept twisting his story. By the end of it , now this is deep , but by the end of the conversation I'm fully convinced this man was the very one that took my wife's mother's life. There's alot to this story and I won't get into it all but I'll say this, my wife talks good about everyone, she tries to see the best in everybody but even her mouth dropped open with the things he was saying and after everything was put together, myself, my wife, our kids, all believe this man killed my wife's mother. Not the beautiful story we was after. But the great news is, she has been contacted by many of her family she never knew she had on her dad's side and they are some of the sweetest people and now after about 5 years arrangements are being made for us to go west and meet cousins she never knew she had and they are all upset that the dad hasn't reached out to my wife since the second time she contacted him, which after we put together everything she has no desire to ever meet him, even if he didn't do the crime he's still a ass.

Extremely extraordinary Story❤

0 fucks were given

@stevenmiller4285 what the hell is wrong with you? You're comment is gross!! You can't be happy for others?

I know, right? Grandma was singing along a bit, she knew those words. It was vety, very touching and beautiful.

Not to mention you could see her mouthing the words of Tumbleweed, and feeling the spirit of her daughters memories come flooding through. As an adoptee I frankly never wanted to find my birth family. The parents who raised me to some degree traumatized my sister and I, so I feared that if I found them it would turn out the same way. They want something from me I couldn’t give. This fills my heart that her adoptive parents were so open and so secure in the bond they’d created with their daughter that they aided her in fulfilling that need that I believe comes with many adoptees. In my life I’ve intellectualized the WHY. And it has served me. However the joy and connectedness I felt and still feel with my own flesh and blood help to heal my missing parts. ❤❤❤❤

That’s how you crash an audition… sort of! ❤

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True

Should be definitely!

Definitely 😢

Their story has depth and beauty. Love to Ranelle. She's multi talented and a beautiful soul.❤

She should sing Desperado by the way eagles she would kill it 3:42

Right? What beautiful people ❤

Her birth mother actually chose her adopted parents they met before and after the birth exchanged letters for a time after the adoption

Her adoptive parents do not have the right to keep her from her birth relatives. She has her own history and bloodlines that will never be erased by a legal decision to raise a child. Adopted kids have an entitlement to be close to their bio family regardless of the adoptive family. It's so sad how adoptive parents are always centered in these stories. It's the child's story.

God is a pigment of your imagination, but nice sentiment anyway.

Dog Bless!

Just for a moment she got her daughter back after losing her thru her granddaughter. I can't imagine how's she's feeling.

@@jonathanvilla7280 so true

Tears of joy 🤣🤣🤣

Incredible she's really good hope she makes it far in the competition

Most adoptive parents aren’t as open 😢

Her birth Mom actually picked the adoptive parent from many applications they met before and after the birth even exchanged letters for a time

@@alandevanny4089 open adoptions that is awesome. That wasn’t a thing in the 60’s

What a beautiful family who raised this precious girl❤

Yes. I don’t imagine it was the easiest thing they have done. They sure did a fine job raising her ! Had to be a very emotional time for all of them!😊

I thought the same thing. I would have never know she was adopted her smile and feature’s look like her adopted Mom. You can see her beauty soul when she sings. What a beautiful moment to share with the world

Me too,absolutely ❤

Me neither I'm rooting for her and Micaela

Find her on RU-vid as "McKenna Breinholt" and support her videos she has already made, and subscribe to her page. I did.🙏

Top 2

Hopefully the winner. I don't even care about anyone else at this point

I agree totally! I would say, best story IN ALL TELEVISION SHOWS HISTORY.

It really is, I can't think of a more compelling story.. In many ways it makes me rethink not having kids.. The only think we can really leave behind in this world is someone to carry on our legacy.

I said the same thing

It was actually the show producers who arranged it all they wanted to show the world her story,and unknown to McKenna the two families met at her uncles Nashville home before the show

@@alandevanny4089 thank you for clarifying that. I didn’t realize it. 👍🏻😊 It was a very moving story. ☺️

agree, carrying her Mom's legacy ❤

She will a receive a Big Blessing From Jesus Christ.

I’m so happy for you!! I did it at 55 last June. ❤