U.S. woman finds out her late husband was her father

(MCT)

A 60-year-old Ohio woman has made the horrifying discovery that her late husband was in fact her father, according to local news reports.

Valerie Spruill, a mother of three, found out about her true lineage six years after her father and husband Percy died in 1998 at the age of 60. Her uncle told her that the startling fact and a DNA test confirmed it.

This bizarre twist began when Spruill was sent to live with her grandparents when she was just three months old. She had been told that her grandparents were her parents and her mother was just a family friend.

At age nine, she found out the truth about her mother and her grandparents, but she was not told who her real father was.

Later she met Percy who was working as a truck driver and parking-lot attendant in Akron, and they eventually got married.

Spruill said that her father-husband was aware of the fact that he married his daughter but was afraid to tell her, although she does not know for certain.

The horrendous revelation has induced several serious health problems for Spruill, and she has been seeing a therapist to her cope with the situation.

Still, Spruill said that she decided to share her story in hope of finding her other siblings.

“My biggest goal is to find them and let ’em know that (their mother) loved them, no matter what … And (to say) ‘Thank God she gave you away like she did me, so you could have a beautiful life,’” she said.


From news reports
(khnews@heraldcorp.com)