EXCLUSIVE: Julie Chen Gets Emotional Reading Her Grandfather's Obit on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
The Talk host Julie Chen learned more than she ever expected when she began to delve into her family's genealogy on the TLC docu-series Who Do You Think You Are?
In this exclusive clip from the celebrity ancestry show, Chen discovers her grandfather's obituary in a Singapore newspaper from 1960.
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Reading about her grandfather's funeral, and the family he left behind, Chen gets choked up thinking about the man she never got the opportunity to know.
"It's so strange because I never met him…" Chen said, fighting by tears. "But it's sad."
Learning of her grandfather's death -- which occurred long before she was ever born -- but not nearly enough about his life, the talk show host decides to set off to Singapore in an attempt to really get to know her late grandfather.
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What she discovers changes her perspective of her grandfather forever.
Entertainment Tonightshowcased Chen's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? on Tuesday, and revealed a little more about the man's life. Chen admitted that she always heard he had been a "womanizer," but never realized the truly heroic things he did for his friends, family and community.
Who Do You Think You Are? returns Sunday, March 8, at 10/9c on TLC.
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