Actress Kerry Washington has shared some home truths in her new memoir, Thicker Than Water, including the bombshell family secret she only discovered in 2018.
star revealed at the age of 41 she learnt her dad, Earl, was not her biological father.“It really turned my world upside down,” she toldKerry Washington discovered her dad wasn’t her biological father in 2018. Picture: EPA/PAUL BUCK
The star said the truth only came to light when she was about to appear on an episode of the US seriesIt was only then her parents had no choice but to come clean. After battling anxiety, body image issues and eating disorders when she was young, which she addresses in her memoir, Washington fells her struggles might have been her body subconsciously sensing her parents’ secret.“I think that dissonance of like, ‘Somebody is not telling me something about my body’ made me feel like there was something in my body I had to fix,” she said, adding that she always “felt like sort of the missing puzzle piece”.