7 Celebrities Who Put Their Children Up For Adoption

Discover out what occurred to those well-known mother and father…

When Rod Stewart was simply a youngster, his girlfriend grew to become pregnant and since he was “completely stone broke,” the couple determined to place the little woman up for adoption. She was named Sarah Streeter by her adoptive mother and father and grew up not realizing about her well-known father. Rod was capable of meet her later in life they usually saved in contact sporadically however after Sarah’s mother and father handed, Rod mentioned he was making extra of an effort to be in her life.

“She was put up for adoption once I was 17 or 18, I believe,” Rod shared on The Joy Behar Show in 2010. “Since her mother and pop have died, we’ve tried to return collectively and be shut collectively, and it’s figuring out fairly nicely. I by no means felt like I used to be her dad, as a result of I didn’t take her to high school, change her nappies, there was no paternal factor there, however I am making an attempt.”

When Roseanne Barr came upon she was anticipating her first little one, she was simply 17-years-old and determined to present her up for adoption. When Roseanne later rose to fame, tabloids uncovered the adoption paperwork and tracked down her daughter Brandi Brown, who was a youngster on the time. Roseanne was fortunately capable of personally join along with her daughter earlier than all of it made headlines.

“I went away to Denver and moved right into a Salvation Military residence for unwed moms. My household wasn’t too supportive. I gave my child as much as the Jewish Household & Kids’s Service in Denver. They mentioned that they had a pair that had waited seven years for a Jewish child. However the day they got here to take my child away, I whispered to her, ‘You keep in mind this, I’ll see you once you’re 18.’ I at all times knew that. I at all times knew we’d get again,” Roseanne instructed People.

When David Foster was a younger grownup, he welcomed a daughter with a girlfriend whose id hasn’t been made public. The couple determined to place the little woman up for adoption however David was capable of finally reconnect along with her later in life. She now serves as secretary to the Board, Director, Enterprise & Stakeholder Relations of the David Foster Foundation.

Patti Smith was solely 19 when she grew to become pregnant along with her first little one. On the time, she was residing in her mother and father’ laundry room and finding out at Glassboro State Lecturers School in New Jersey — from which she was finally kicked out. When neighbors began being judgmental in the direction of Patti and her mother and father, she went to dwell with a surrogate household till she gave delivery to her child woman. Round 2010, she was capable of reunite along with her.

“I’ve reconnected with that little one. She’s a part of our household. She’s 57 years previous. I introduced her into the world, however I didn’t increase her,” she instructed The Times. “Now she is like household and pal — it’s robust. She doesn’t dwell close to me, however she’s definitely a part of my world.”

Kate Mulgrew was 21 and had simply landed her breakthrough function on Ryan’s Hope when she came upon she was pregnant. Wanting again, she says she was “alone and flooded with terror.” With nobody to assist her and never desirous to have an abortion, she determined to present the infant up for adoption. Her being pregnant was written into the present and when she gave delivery in 1977, she handed her daughter onto Catholic Charities. Within the years that adopted, she looked for the infant to no avail.

“Then, in 1998, by likelihood, I bumped into the nun who supervised the adoption. For 20 years, Catholic Charities had refused to present me any details about my daughter. Sister Una lastly relented and despatched the adoption registry types to each my daughter and myself,” Kate instructed AARP.

She continued, “As we speak, I see Danielle as typically as I see my sons, and we now have grown very shut. She additionally has an in depth and loving relationship with my sons, Ian and Alec, her two half brothers…My daughter’s capability for forgiveness is one thing I’ve by no means seen earlier than in my life. That sense of abandonment was excruciating in her life. There’s not sufficient time to make up for it, solely sufficient time to like. We cried lots. All we will do is transfer ahead.”

Again in his early 20s, David Crosby and a girlfriend welcomed somewhat boy. Shortly after his delivery, the toddler, named James Raymond, was put up for adoption. Three many years later, James sought out details about his delivery mother and father, discovering David was his well-known father. On the time, he determined to not attain out, feeling that since he was additionally a musician, it might seem he was solely reaching out for “egocentric causes.”

However within the Nineties when David was in poor health and getting ready for a liver transplant, James’ adoptive father determined to write down a letter to the musician within the hospital.

“So I wrote a letter to David at UCLA Medical Heart, the place he was. I defined within the letter to David that we raised…the little boy that he gave up for adoption,” he instructed CBS News. “I felt obligated as one father to a different. If David didn’t survive, how would I then really feel, realizing that I’d harbored this from him? I must go on the remainder of my life realizing that James’ organic father died with out ever realizing this.”

David admits he had at all times questioned about James and after his surgical procedure, he reached out to attach. The pair have now gone on to create music collectively, even forming a jazz-rock band, CPR (Crosby, Pevar & Raymond). They’ve toured collectively and James wrote and produced David’s 2021 album, For Free.

Joni Mitchell was a younger struggling musician when she came upon she was pregnant with somewhat woman. Along with her boyfriend out of the image, Joni ended up marrying a pal, people singer Chuck Mitchell, within the hopes of with the ability to preserve the infant. Sadly, the wedding shortly deteriorated and at eight-months-old, Joni gave up the toddler for adoption.

“The primary factor on the time was to hide it,” Joni instructed the Los Angeles Times of her being pregnant. “The scandal was so intense. A daughter may do nothing extra disgraceful. It ruined you in a social sense. You haven’t any concept what the stigma was. It was such as you murdered any individual.”

Joni considered her daughter for years and even wrote songs about her. In 1997, they lastly reunited with the assistance of a fan who had began a web site to seek out Joni’s long-lost daughter. Joni later instructed People that the opening she had in her coronary heart was lastly stuffed “the day I noticed her once more.”