Kerry Washington recalled when her parents told her in her 40s that she was conceived via a sperm donor
A talented pair! Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha met by chance in 2009 and the couple’s connection has only grown since. The former Oakland Raiders player met the Scandal alum while she was doing a production of Race. “The last time I did theater, it completely transformed my life,” she revealed in an October 2021 […]
“When my parents told me it was like somebody finally took that wrong puzzle piece that had been jammed into place and pulled it out and we all got to be honest,” she recalled. “And we don’t even know what the missing piece is because I don’t know who the donor is but at least now the painting is honest.”
While Kerry is curious to learn more about her birth father, it doesn’t change her relationship with the man who she considers to be her father.“To my dad, I am his and he is mine and there’s no point in acknowledging any other truth … It doesn’t matter … He is my dad, he will always be my dad,” Kerry shared while noting that her father didn’t want to tell her the news. “There’s more complexity, there’s more nuance.
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