Hermitage Green star on journey to meet birth parents

Hermitage Green 's Darragh Graham has spoken about the long journey he went through to track down his birth parents - including his biological father who had no idea he existed.

"Eventually, I went for it in 2019. I approached a social worker and filled out forms and did the process that every person wanting to trace their birth parents would." He said he now has a relationship with his birth mother, brother and extended family:"There's lots of them!"We need your consent to load this Instagram contentWe use Instagram to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences"I grew up knowing that I had ties to Trinidad.

"I said hello and I said, 'I'm from Ireland and what I'm about to tell you might shock you. I was born in 1984. I was adopted at birth, and I recently found my birth mother. "I was able to tell him that he would have been on my mind growing up and I always wanted to meet him, and I was very happy to have met him. He just listened. He was just really shocked."

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