Actor Jimi Mistry reveals his shock discovery that the man he called Dad wasn’t his real father.
Actor Jimi Mistry was 18 when his mother told him that his father wasn't his real dad, according to 'Mail Online.'
She told him that she had met his dad when he was three." I didn't speak to her about it for 16 years. I blocked it out, put a smile on, said to myself, "If I don't know, everything will be OK."
His half-Irish mother,a Catholic who was studying at a nursing college when she met Jimi's biological father, an Asian doctor.
It was his grandmother who wanted the secret out, so he finally learned the truth years later. When his grandmother died, Jimi's life was falling to pieces. His five-year marriage to Meg, mother of his daughter Elin, was breaking down.
"All the major components of my life just didn't make sense - the career, being a husband, the issue of my dad. I was successful but I wasn't happy. "
Aged three, Jimi was living with his mother in a small council flat when he first met the man he calls 'Dad,' a Hindu doctor, just like Jimi's biological father.
Jimi says 'Dad' is everything a boy could want in a father. "He's the father of my two younger sisters. I kind of remember that time, but there's a selective memory, isn't there? "
