What Surprised Andy Samberg About His Mom’s Adoption Story?

Andy Samberg’s got one of those stories that makes you just sit back and go, No way. He was on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast recently, and what he shared about his mom’s adoption would make a perfect movie plot.

A few years back, Andy did an episode of Finding Your Roots. He wanted to help his mom, Marjorie Marrow, figure out where she really came from. She’d been adopted and never knew much about her birth parents. When the show aired, they got answers. But that wasn’t even close to the whole story.

Turns out, after that episode, Andy’s mom connected with both sides of her birth family. She learned she has four half-siblings on her dad’s side. Plus a bunch of cousins from her mom’s side too. At 75, Marjorie finally got family she never thought she’d meet. Andy says she had pretty much given up. She thought she’d go her whole life without these answers.

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What Made Andy Samberg Get Chills?

Here’s where it gets wild. Andy said both sides of his mom’s birth family did something totally unexpected. Without even knowing the other side was doing the same thing, they each dug through old stuff. And both sides found the exact same photo. It was a picture of Andy’s grandparents — Marjorie’s birth parents — together during the short time they were in each other’s lives.

It’s like something out of a feel-good drama. Both families had kept that one photo for decades. Andy says he still gets chills telling it. He thinks maybe they both held onto it hoping one day Marjorie would find them. Or maybe they just treasured that small moment together. Either way, when both families found it at the same time, it felt like more than coincidence.

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What makes this even spookier? Marjorie ended up living in the same area where her birth parents had been. No plan. Just life doing its thing. She raised Andy there, without ever knowing that connection. Talk about full circle.

How Did The Agency Play Into This?

Another twist — the adoption agency that handled Marjorie’s adoption wasn’t exactly squeaky clean. Turns out, it’s the same one exposed in Three Identical Strangers. That doc revealed how three triplets were split up as an experiment. So Andy figures that’s why they could never find the full story earlier. Records were just gone. Hidden. Buried. His family only cracked the code with a TV show and a bit of luck.

Now Andy says it’s all worth it. His mom finally knows who she is and where she came from. She’s got new family. He’s got new cousins and stories to tell. And that old photo? It’s proof that sometimes the universe does things you can’t explain.

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