IYANLA: I then heard your father say that your father may not
be your father.
That's funny. IYANLA: Why is that funny?
This is the first time I ever heard it.
Once again, I go back to the passing the name down.
Why would you do that--
and you're unsure?
IYANLA: Because here's what I want you to know.
The woman that he was in relationship with was Laverne.
The woman that gave birth to y'all was your mother.
That may not be the Laverne that he knew.
Right.
IYANLA: But the relationships are very different.
Do you understand-- - Yeah, I do.
IYANLA: --how he saw her?
How he held her?
What they were going through?
What their breakdown was?
I mean, you going through something right now,
you understand?
And no matter how much that hurt you
or what you think or feel about it,
your son sees it very differently.
Definitely. IYANLA: You understand?
Yes, ma'am.
IYANLA: So for me it would explain a lot.
I'm going to offer you all the opportunity to do a DNA test.
Wow.
IYANLA: It will take us 24 hours to get the results back.
Wow.
OK.
IYANLA: That's your choice.
Might as well do it.
- [LAUGHS] - Right, you know--
I'm not against it, I don't know.
I'm not against it either. We might as well, you know?
Yeah.
IYANLA: OK, so because it opens up another realm of possibility
of, well, then that makes sense why he
didn't never come look for us. - Right.
Exactly. Mm-hmm.
IYANLA: If he is your dad, then he has
to get right with himself is--
you left your sons out there thinking
that they wasn't yours.
Now you really got to lie now.
Mm-hmm.
IYANLA: That's how I'm looking at it.
I could be wrong.
So you just heard that your brothers may
not be your brother by your same father,
and you're OK with that.
They're my brothers.
IYANLA: I'm saying, are you OK with that?
That's a yes or a no.
Yes or no?
Then I'm OK with it.
IYANLA: So I'm gonna let you all get tested.
We're gonna have the results in 24 hours.
OK.
[EXHALES LOUDLY] That's crazy.
IYANLA: Because then we'll know which way to go.
Yeah.
IYANLA: Now what I want to do in the meantime
is get you all worked up to the place
where, no matter which way it goes,
you know where you're going.
Right.
IYANLA: You still got to do the human work.
Oh, yeah.
If it turns out that he's not our dad,
that would completely, like, shake everything.
You know, he hasn't been around, you know what I mean?
But it's just gonna be like, wow, you know?
Yeah, that would be crazy.
Gonna be, wow.
IYANLA: Every path has led to this moment right here
and it can all be healed, but we got to build on the truth.
Right.
IYANLA: Got to.
Can't go nowhere without that.
And something here--
[SNIFFING]
Don't smell right.
[LAUGHS]
IYANLA: --it ain't smelling right to me.
OK?
You want truth.
Yes, ma'am.
IYANLA: I am my brother's keeper.
You need to know which father you're talking about.
Love y'all, man.
IYANLA: You need to know that so that you can do this.
OK?
All righty.
Let me let the tech come in and he'll do the tests,
and then I'll come back.
He's going to do the little swabbing.
Mr. Cornelius, Mr. Cornell, and Mr. Nigel
have shared the pain of holding unanswered questions
in their hearts for all of their lives.
What prevented you from being a real dad?
Why weren't we enough to quit drugs?
Why weren't you with us at our mother's funeral?
But there is one key question at the core of this story
that they never knew they needed to ask--
are you my father?
Doesn't matter what the test says,
today I have been in the company of broken hearts.
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And where they go from here, only truth can tell.
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All right, thanks a lot, gentlemen.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
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