Lisa Wright was born in 1964 to a young mother who was not equipped to raise her. Her mother made the gut-wrenching decision to place her for adoption as soon as she was born; she was so emotional that she couldn't even look at Lisa's face before saying goodbye.
It was a closed adoption, so Lisa would not be able to obtain her birth mother's information. Thankfully, she was adopted by a loving family who told her that her birth mother loved her very much … which was certainly true.
All Lisa knew was that her birth mother had her at a very young age and that she had dreams of moving to Hollywood.
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It wasn't until Lisa was an adult and had a family of her own that she decided to seek out her biological family after 50 years.
With the help of an at-home DNA kit, Lisa was eventually connected with a genetic match — and soon received the phone call she'd been waiting for.
Lisa found herself speaking to her birth mom more than five decades since her adoption. When she learned her true identity, she realized the unbelievable truth — that she'd grown up watching her, and loving her, on television …
