Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Jamie Foxx

Before he was a world-famous actor, Jamie Foxx was a child of divorce. When his parents split up, it was his maternal grandmother who took him in at just seven months old. He was raised for his whole life in the town of Terrell, Texas. There, he joined a local church choir and fell in love with singing, performing, and later, acting. 

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