Andy Samberg shared an replace about his mom’s adoption story through the Tuesday episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast.
In a 2019 episode of Discovering Your Roots, the Saturday Evening Reside alum and his mom, Marjorie Marrow, lastly learned the identity of her birth parents after Marrow, who was adopted, had struggled to trace them down.
Whereas Marrow’s organic mom and father had each died by the point they filmed the episode, she realized that they briefly dated earlier than they broke up and their respective households even held onto the identical {photograph} of them collectively.
“They each, unbeknownst to one another, went trying by means of her organic mother and father’ stuff they nonetheless had, and so they each discovered the identical {photograph} of the 2 of them collectively,” Samberg instructed Poehler through the podcast episode. “They each had the identical image of them collectively after they had their temporary time collectively … from a date in San Francisco.”
Marrow’s mother and father met within the Bay Space, which is in the end the place she and Samberg’s father raised the Saturday Evening Reside alum and his sisters.
Samberg additionally shared that he and his household found a motive Marrow had a troublesome time discovering her start mother and father earlier than they appeared on Discovering Your Roots. The PBS docuseries is hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who examines the U.S. historical past and backgrounds of various households and movie star visitors.
“When it aired, it confirmed my mother’s adoption company that she was adopted from,” Samberg mentioned of his mom’s episode. “And it’s the place from Three An identical Strangers.” Samberg was referring to a 2018 documentary that adopted a pair of an identical triplets who have been separated at start by the Louise Sensible adoption company. The adoption company in the end closed in 2004.
“We have been like, ‘That’s why we might by no means discover the data and discover something about it,’” he continued. “As a result of they disappeared.”
Whereas Samberg wasn’t fully positive why each of his start grandparents’ households stored the identical picture, he shared “a number of theories” with Poehler.
“One is that they thought perhaps sometime this actual factor would occur and so they wished her to search out them,” he mentioned. “If not, it’s simply that perhaps they each actually loved their time collectively.”
Samberg added it was attainable that his mom’s start mother and father’ households selected to honor the reminiscence by saving the picture because of generational variations. “You don’t wipe your previous relationships from social media, you retain them as a result of they have been particular to you on the time,” he mentioned.