Oprah Winfrey has said she won’t “ever” participate in a DNA paternity test to determine who her biological father is. Would you?
Yesterday the New York Post reported that Oprah Winfrey has refused the offer of a paternity test from a man claiming to be the talk-show queen’s biological father.
The man, 84-year old Norh Robinson is from Kosciusho Miss, the rural town that Winfrey left at age 6.
While Winfrey says she’s ‘never heard of him.’ Robinson says he sent her a letter a year ago asking for a meeting and offering to take a paternity test. Robinson claims he wants nothing to do with Oprah’s vast fortune and only wants to meet his alleged daughter before he dies.
It’s curious though, that he has not come forward with this until now. He was not a part of Oprah’s life growing up, and he now wants to make a connection. Oprah has been heavily criticized in the press for refusing to take part in the paternity test, but does she owe him anything?
Put yourself in her place: If a stranger came forward claiming to be a long-lost relative and asking for a DNA test would you do it?
TANDRA EVANS says
YES I WOULD TAKE THE TEST IM IN THE SAME SITUATION N0W.I WOULD WANT TO KNOW WHERE I CAME FROM AND I WOULD WANT TO MEET THE REST OF MY FAMILY AS WELL.IM FROM BALTIMORE AND BALTIMORE IS NOT A BIG CITY I WOULDN’T WANT TO GET INVOLED WITH SOMEONE AND LATER FIND OUT ITS A RELATIVE OF MINE.NOT KNOWING WHO I AM AND WHERE I CAME FROM IS THE WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD….MY POSSIBLE DAD AND I ARE WAITING ON OUR PATERNITY TEST NOW…WISH ME LUCK.
Kate says
I don’t know if I would or not. But you make a good point.
I hope you get the results you are looking for. Either way, KNOWING for sure, is always better than wondering. Please check back! I’d love to know hear about your experience with Paternity testing.