Valerie Spruill grew up in Ohio and didn't find out out till she was 9years old that the man she thought was her father was her grandfather and the family friend who lived with them was her mother.
It sounds like a script from a Nollywood movie? It gets worst.
After her mother died in 1984, Valerie met and married a man who she found out 20years later was her actual father. ll thanks to a DNA test, she found out her late husband, Percy Spruill, who had died 6 years ago, was actually her biological father.
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Valerie is not sure if her husband knew he was really her father because he never talked about it, but admits there is a possibility that he knew, and was just afraid to tell her the truth.
Asked why she’s decided to let the world in on her family secret, Valerie Spruill explained that she “wants to set an example” and inspire those who are going through a rough time.
She said she also wants to show other people who were born into miserable situations that they can still lead, good, productive and fulfilling lives, as she is a living, breathing example.
“I want this to be more of an inspirational story,” she says. “If I’ve come through this, anyone can come through anything through the help of the Lord.”
Valerie said her story “needs to be told, because children need to know where they come from,” she said. “And I know it hurts, because I have been devastated by this.”
She says to this day, she is still seeing a therapist to come to terms with the difficult revelation that she was married to her father, and had children with him. (So does that make her own children her brothers and sisters too?)
Valerie is also telling the world her story because she wants to meet her siblings.
“My biggest goal is to find my siblings and let them know that their mother loved them, no matter what,” she said. “And to say, ‘Thank God she gave you away like she did me, so you could have a beautiful life.'
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