Amanda Seyfried found beautiful details about her household historical past that left the Oscar-nominee bewildered and “sad.”
The “Mean Girls” actress, 39, was astounded to study that her third great-grandfather was murdered throughout a clip from the season 11 premiere of Ancestry’s “Finding Your Roots” obtained by Leisure Weekly.
Harvard scholar and host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., first advised the “Les Miserables” star “your third great-grandfather was murdered,” after which he requested “have you ever heard this story before?”
Seyfried claimed she was unaware and Gates revealed what he found in regards to the tragedy.
Gates used previous newspaper clippings from the early 1900s to point out Seyfried all about John P. Elbert’s dying, the grandfather of Seyfried’s great-grandfather.
“Oh my God, what? Oh my God,” Seyfried exclaimed as she was proven the previous clippings.
Elbert was a “well-known retired banker, a good citizen and inoffensive man,” in response to the article.
Throughout a night in 1905, her ancestor was reportedly shot 3 times at his home and have become “so seriously wounded that he cannot possibly recover.”
The dramatic clip confirmed Seyfried reacting to graphic particulars about how Elbert’s “hand was probably on the doorknob” of his again door “when from between the outhouse and the grape arbor which screens it stepped a man who fired three shots at him point blank at a range not more than a yard.”
“Oh my God, that’s so sad!” Seyfried mentioned.
Seyfried then shared how she felt unhealthy for her third-great grandmother, additionally named Amanda, and their youngsters.
The Pennsylvania-native was shocked by the brand new info.
“It’s weird, I don’t know him but yet he’s family, and I’m just like, ‘How dare they?’ Like, find justice!” Seyfried urged.
Gates has been investigating and revealing the surprising historical past of A-listers ancestors for over a decade on the Primetime Emmy-nominated program.
In 2023, Julia Roberts came upon she was not really a “Roberts” after a DNA check confirmed the “Pretty Woman” performer’s great-great-grandmother had an affair with a married man after her husband handed away.
In the meantime, Ben Affleck reportedly needed the PBS present to cover the truth that one among his ancestors owned slaves, in response to a Sony e mail hack.
Seyfried’s episode referred to as “Larger Than Life” would be the season 11 premiere on PBS Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 7 pm.
PBS teased that the premiere will present the pasts of each Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried “are every bit as dramatic as the characters they’ve played on stage and screen, telling stories of relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.”
