Rita Wilson's Hidden Family Bombshell

0:00On April 22nd, Rita Wilson dropped a family bombshow on the How to Fail podcast this week, revisiting a wild discovery from 2012 on the Genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? As 69, the actress spilled that her late dad, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimov, had a whole other life in Bulgaria before heading to the States. Turns out, right after World War II, his first wife Alice died, giving birth to their son Emil, who came into the world on December 26th, but passed four months later from an infection. Harp broken, he packed up and moved to America in 1949. What hits hardest is this eerie twist. Wilson's sisters first born and her own youngest son were both born on December 26th too. Every birthday like that must have haunted her dad, stirring up those buried memories from his Greek Orthodox roots. Her family stayed super private about it all, no real worth for personal boundaries in Greek, she says. But opening up like this shows were all carrying hidden pains, and talking could connect as deeper.

1:03Wilson's keeping busy with Tom Hanks and their four grown kids, plus a new film star without me, and her album Sound of a Woman Dropping May. First proof life's layers keep unfolding. Pop culture, powered by AI, this is Entertainment and celebrity news today. I'm Corey with The Story.