Kim Cattrall Tells Story Of Her Grandfather Abandoning Family | Who Do You Think You Are?

[@lucretciaseven4873]

The irony is that this man who crept around hiding from photos because of the criminally shameful thing he did anddied thinking he'd pulled it off with his reputation intact with no onw the wiser finally had his dirty secret exposed not just in his community but before the entire world, BOOYAH!

[@Alice-jz6ti]

You took the words right out of my comment! 😊 And a granddaughter who lives in the limelight!

[@dlk8439]

Be sure your sins will find you out! 😄

[@samcad-ho3ze]

This absolutely breaks me. Those three little girls. You would need a heart of stone. God bless these beautiful women. They have each other.

[@areiaaphrodite]

Listening to her aunt say, while watching the picture of him and his family at the beach, "and we were walking around in rags and hungry"... Idk how someone could do that to their own children and then be so carefree with a huge smile on their face...

[@charlottebruce979]

"He had no heart he had a swinging brick" my ex walked out on me and our four children, my youngest was one. I understand their pain.

[@usagi_66]

My English is not so good , but what does a swinging brick means ??? And im sorry what happend :(

[@Svvithred]

@@usagi_66 it's basically a way of saying that someone has no heart, just a swinging brick

[@usagi_66]

@@Svvithred ahhh ok , thanks for explaining :)

[@H4CK61]

You are better off without such a scumbag. I hope you all have a happy and healthy life.

[@jayneterry8701]

@@Svvithred would it have something to do with destruction too?

[@katrabbit]

My grandfather was a bigamist. He left my grandmother and their four children in America and moved around Africa and South America, where he married a woman in each continent. Three wives in a matter of two decades. We have half-family in both places and have since connected with them and consider them family as well now. History has a way of feeling very recent when it comes to childhood trauma.

[@Lemoncatsf]

We had something similar with my paternal great grandfather. He moved his family from continent to continent during the tumultuous times of the early 20th Century. My grandfather and his sisters and mother were traumatized. I’m not 100% positive if he committed bigamy but we have family scattered between Europe, South America and here in N. America. My grandfather was born in South Africa, but lived in Europe, Russia and South America before immigrating here.

[@marianaya5824]

Beautiful last sentence.

[@Tawadeb]

3 gorgeous spunky ladies and gorgeous Kim. His loss. Loser

[@SaturnaliaJones]

He abandoned the family that would go on to be a celebrity. He wasn't just outted, but worldwide by his amazing famous granddaughter! That brazenness he used for his own ends she inherited and used to become famous and create the best life and real life revenge ever!! Queen!!

[@deepikasundar4875]

I love Kim's voice and her clarity of speech

[@babiphat20]

Her voice is so soothing

[@downundabrotha]

Canadian with the English clarity

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

downundabrotha What does being a Canadian have to do with it?

[@movingup2118]

It's a rarity these days.

[@ianmiles2505]

Its an act. Obviously.

[@tls4022]

'He wasnt in action he worked in the shipyard' 'Figures' LOL

[@QemeH]

That one word tells you more about how hard it was for them than any of the stories they could've told...

[@sarah3796]

Those poor ladies. Painful. I’m glad they know now

[@KoriEmerson]

My Dad did the same thing. To know you were not enough. And to know someone else was... it hurts a lot. Soooo much.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

You should not blame yourself for the faults of others when you did nothing wrong.

[@marianaya5824]

But you know, the women were enough because they kept going and raised their children and now look at them. You know? It was your father who was not enough. And he knew it... It was Kim's grandfather who was not enough. Peace.

[@Tawadeb]

His fault is nothing to do with you. He'd do it to anyone. God blessings

[@Distant394]

Feel for the sisters , my grandad done that to my dad he’s 88 now and still feels the pain of being left with nothing 😢

[@Tawadeb]

Very sad. Not your Dad's fault

[@cfield1468]

Same thing happened to my mother and my siblings 1963 🇺🇸. I think it happens more than we know. My mom was the best mother and father combined. Bless her

[@annazaman9657]

I can so relate. My father too left his wife and four children and never looked back. I always wondered how you could do that and not feel a thing

[@villanelle8888]

Difficult for women to understand but I'm sure men can relate in wishing to start afresh. Perhaps Bella was his soulmate.

[@villanelle8888]

Or maybe not, maybe it's just me... as I strangely understand.

[@madeleinalazaris8138]

I can understand wanting to start fresh and not be in love with who you married anymore. Perhaps him and Bella were soulmates.....it's the fact he just abandoned his children which I fail to understand. Even if he never saw them again, he could of at least sent them money. He looks as though he had the wealth to do so if he could take his new family on various holidays, provide well for them and emigrate too.

[@Dako108]

Ghosting is as ancient as humanity. It just has a name now.

[@barrygodek6188]

Happened to my Mom - her Dad left for work one morning and never came back - left no trace that I’ve been able to find - the four children were deeply affected - they went from living in a house, having a car, a good life to complete and abject poverty - Fred her brother was most affected I think bur Mom too feared abandonment - when my brother and I became her caregivers it was a conscious choice but driven too by her pleas never to leave her - we didn’t - she died here in her house, in her bed which is what she wanted - I will always cherish the last months with her - 96 is a good long life, she was well loved by many - this event shadowed her whole life, what more can I say -

[@adrianaa.4226]

so sorry

[@nikiedmonds6236]

My biological father left my mom with me and my bother when we were 4 years and 3 months old and was never a part of our lives after that...we found out he went on to start two other families and was an active father and provider for his other children...I can understand their pain

[@ThomasAdamLamb]

Love Kim so much, so happy that she got to reveal the truth for her mum and aunts, what an awful story, it’s all out now , all the children can now rest and digest the evidence, hopefully they can go on with their lives! Well done Kim , great work

[@jeannehunter5344]

The truth may be hard but it does set you free.

[@anigeriflodnag]

My great-grandfather was also a bigamist. My great-grandmother only found out about his other family when she was visiting him at the hospital in his final months. My mom told me she was really angry at him and that she said to him: "you choose me or you choose her!"

[@areiaaphrodite]

My great-grandfather wasn't a bigamist but he went around using women for sure. He was married, had three other women with children in different parts of the country and another family somewhere in China (his birth country). We found this out from doing an Ancestry DNA test and matching with one of his children... No wonder he used to make visits there a lot.

[@wandertree]

And what happened??

[@marodrey]

Thank you Kim, for your valour and courage and to your mother and aunties for their beauty and example.

[@AndrewMartinIsHere]

I remember watching this when it was broadcast, but I’m sat here watching it again, and crying with these women. 😢

[@toidean633]

Kim's voice is so soothing 🦋🌹🥰

[@billkeane528]

never realized how beautiful kim was a natural beauty

[@ajkaye5719]

Yes us scousers (Google it) are known for this.. 👍

[@alicemi4155]

@@ajkaye5719 Your family name reveals totally different roots. Are you really a Scouser or something sunnier?

[@ajkaye5719]

@@alicemi4155 scouser through and through.. my father is of Greek decent, recognise 👌

[@zazlar4228]

life can be so cruel. You can love somebody with all your heart and that person can vanish and leave you like you never meant a thing. So cruel

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Worse, that they leave you with mouths to feed and in a much worse state, especially back then when there wasn’t any government social services.

[@andersonfamily]

This will go down as one of my favs of this series.... I often wonder if the girls reached out to their Aussie relations

[@KevinMiller1992]

They did

[@Scully1231]

Kim Catrall is such a genuine person. She is so nice. She didnt have to do this. She did it for her mum and sisters and i feel that is very real.

[@amygareis6276]

The hardest part of the story is watching this. Her poor mom and aunts...

[@tinkervance1525]

These fine precious women broke my heart! Such a great testimony of strength! Sending them all much love from TN.

[@graciemuldoon]

That made me cry to see the pain in those ladies upon discovering what had actually happened to their father. Touching story but maybe somewhere down the line he has regrets and just never felt he could fix it properly after so long a period. So many people have been abandoned as children in this way-

[@gregfox8132]

It took a tv programme, and the strong will of a scouser, to find him out, kim is a Hollywood star, and the real determination of a Liverpool lass.

[@waynesworld4372]

As someone who's biological father pissed off when I was 10 all ill say sometimes you are better of without the bastards. I couldn't give a toss if that person who made me is alive or dead. I have no feelings towards him at all. My mother was all I ever needed. She had more strength in here little finger than that coward had in his whole body

[@shafaghb]

But the cherry on top is the mother couldn't legally marry again. Cause acording to law she was still married. Oh and he also left his own mum waiting for him till her last day

[@charlottebruce979]

Well said, totally agree, I was left too and it's made me a strong mother.

[@Tawadeb]

That’s true

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

shafagh his own mother rejected her grandchildren while they lived in harsh poverty and she never offered to help or saw them again. Seems like the son was just like his mother.

[@wandertree]

I'm sorry that happened to you. No child deserves that sort of treatment. It was wrong of him, and I'm sure he knew it somewhere in his soul. God bless you in your journey through life.

[@Tawadeb]

Kim’s Mum and aunts are classy ladies.

[@villanelle8888]

I wonder if Kim took them to Australia...

[@highpriestess2be]

God bless Kim Cattrell’s family’s GRACEFULNESS 🙏💫. Always stove for people you can encourage yourself to look up to. Always hold on to the beauty of individual strength.

[@flynnsteyer29]

4:23 that look on Kim’s face makes me understand how it’s hard to know the truth about someone’s family. I’ve lost my aunt and godmother when I was perhaps three years old maybe, and I really wish I could see her more

[@areiaaphrodite]

Wow... I feel bad for these women and for Kim! Imagine having to tell your own mother and aunts about their Dad basically trading them in for another family... That's not a conversation I'd want to have with my mother. I would've liked to see their reunion with their other siblings though.. That would've been a silver lining ❤️

[@MrLaureus]

Damn, this broked my heart. He lost three wonderfull women.

[@angelaspringfield5584]

Broke

[@MsAquaDaffodil]

@@angelaspringfield5584go away

[@jamgart6880]

One of my favourites from wdytya. I’m so glad Kim’s mum and aunts finally have closure x

[@Abigail_Wyatt]

You can tell that one aunt was still holding on to a shred of anything to have some kind of nice memory and when she started crying seeing that that wasn’t gonna happen so did I. 😥

[@ΑνΕμ]

Boy that’s a story! Hat off to these ladies and my dearest Kim . They possess strength, true grit.

[@jillthornham-allison3356]

I loved it when at the end Kim called her grandfather a sperm donor, she said accactly what I called my husband's birth father, he married 9 women some from Malta and the UK without getting a divorce. He has or what we've been told upto between 20 to 30 children and the ones we do speak too have a lot of hatred for him.

[@lucyb.5131]

I saw this episode years ago. I'm glad you're posting it again.

[@WhoDoYouThinkYouAre]

Glad you enjoyed it Lucy, keep subscribed for more clips!

[@piolafrancois1879]

So sorry kim didn't know her grandfather

[@austingode]

My father had three families..... he shouldn't have had any

[@SaintSeja]

Oh my god, this makes me cry. That's sooo emotional! These women are so strong!

[@NicolleLaShane]

My father left like this too. Just went off and started a new family. It sucks

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

I don’t understand how someone can walk away from their children and not look back?

[@wandertree]

Such an incredibly selfish thing for him to do. I'm sorry, I can't imagine how it must have hurt. Truly his loss.

[@rebeccarudkin5606]

Love Kim Cattrall! Her family must be so proud ❤

[@Mm09.]

Those women are so sweet and polite, how could anyone do something like that? And carry on for so long

[@reneemann9844]

You did your family proud Kim. These 3 Beautiful Ladies are strong and very blessed to have you and one another ! I pray that your heartfelt search for answers long over due brought your family some closure as sad as their grief had impacted their lives. ❤

[@marianaya5824]

I have been abandoned in my life. But I was abandoned by almost every single person I ever knew, with two toddlers to raise without anyone I could trust to babysit, nor any money. And now that I've earned almost 4 degrees and 2 graduate certificates, I find I don't attach to people in a co-dependent way anymore, which I should be able to do. You SHOULD be able to rely on family. You SHOULD be able to rely on friends. The people in your life SHOULD care what happens to you. But because they didn't and are so toxic now, I'm just happy to be free in the life I've built for myself on my own. I hope that helps someone. peace and love. 🙏🏽

[@patriciamurashige6879]

My god!! I’m so glad that Kim got to find the truth for her mom and aunties! I don’t think they will ever not think about him again,but at least they have some truths. Just hearing their story of the hunger and ghetto life they had is the hardest for me to take in. Again, they are strong women and they “moved on” with their lives!

[@newfienurse65]

My father abandoned my mother when she told him she was pregnant with me. To know he wanted nothing to do with me has affected my self esteem all my life even though I didn’t know him. I can’t imagine the devastation of being 8 and your father leaves. How heartless this man was. Hopefully Kim’s mom and aunts can put that part of their past to rest.

[@dlk8439]

Don’t let it! He wasn’t enough for you. ❤

[@JRB-e1y]

Thank you kim! I love you. I hope your mom and her sisters are happy and free!

[@p.l.3568]

Deeply deeply sorry to got a father so ...like that.

[@farrisbetrosjr4861]

Thank you, Kim C. for sharing your story!

[@oweneusebio8653]

I love Kim Catrall❤️ such a loving daughter and niece

[@sophiebaugh8483]

Fun fact My grandad William Baugh is her step brother or something and those women in the video are his sister

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Did your grandfather ever meet up with that side of the family?

[@alisonstockley9872]

THAT WAS. SO. UPSETTING. KIM AND HER FAMILY ARE SO. LOVELY. . REALLY FEEL. FOR ALL. OF THEM. ❤️😥

[@lorrieaustin4997]

Such a beautiful story. Kim you and your Mom and your two Aunts are very strong women

[@stephjovi]

Quite crazy to find out her mum has half siblings, one of them younger than her daughter. They should have contacted them

[@louisasabrinasusienehalver2396]

OMG...wow girl... you go!!! Show everyone what needs to be seen!!!

[@Dragodol]

"This is the biggest joy George Baugh has brought.. other than being a sperm donor" hahahahaha oh Kim

[@johnobrien921]

If Kim said that in an Islamic country, she would probably be hanged.

[@annawalsh8880]

I really feel for Kim's mum and aunts this is heartbreaking for them. Their kindness clearly didn't come from their dad. Their mum did a job raising them.

[@victoriamacpriest7130]

Wow... so emotional 😪💔

[@jh3142]

I feel so so sorry for them

[@humbleguy4726]

First time i ever saw this programme. I prefer not to write about The S.O.B. but Kim seems to me that she has a genuine warmth about her and the three little girls are now elderly ladies and the truth is out at last for them. I wish my own father had left me and my sister with mom and i know that is a terrible thing to say but that is my truth.

[@charlottebruce979]

One of the most stupidest men in history to miss out on raising three, strong, funny and lovely women, his complete loss, just like the other loser parents who walk out and lose touch with their children. Ok the relationship ends with the partner but to Lose touch with your precious children, no excuse.

[@SilverStrumer]

"Sperm donor" ouch.

[@C_majuscula]

My grandfather was a bigamist. He got caught when my oldest aunt was a toddler - my grandmother had no idea. Looking back on it though, my grandparents getting married in another state makes sense since there wasn't a good way for states to shares those types of records in the 1930s.

[@deirdredowling2251]

Tragically, so many men did this back in the day. My father deserted my mother and us and left Ireland for England. Later he told my mother to follow him and she didn't want to but her mother told her that her duty was to be with her husband. Men and patriarchy. They have a lot to answer for.

[@movingup2118]

My mother's dad, abandoned them when she was 3 in 1956. Back then it was shameful but my nana worked 2 jobs to support her 3 kids in a time when women didn't work. She refused to chase him down. They tried to come in to my mother's life when she 40 and he was dying she totally rejected him like he deserved .

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

I feel bad for the women who felt like they had no choice but to put up with horrible men all so the children would have a father.

[@hindahorn3425]

@@sarcasticallyrearranged Many times it was a simple matter of economics; women had few jobs open to them even if they wanted to raise their children alone (which carried much stigma). Most avaiilable jobs were menial labor such as laundress, seamstress or waitress. Jobs like nurse, secretary and teacher became available to women later in the 20th century and required further training or education. I believe a lot of women just didn't have a choice; it was put up with the man or struggle economically for a long time.

[@brendalarue4690]

Developing strong morals with such a rotten foundation is twice the accomplishment. These women have MUCH to be proud of, and I applaud them! 🤩

[@kdb1697]

This is so sad. How can anybody do that to their own families! I bet his second wife was a pushover and went with whatever he’d say.

[@movingup2118]

Well obviously she just went to Australia against her will.

[@areiaaphrodite]

I get the feeling he was kind of a bully, himself.

[@madeleinalazaris8138]

I got that feeling too. As Maisie said, George's word was law! Possibly she felt she had not much choice

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Women had no real choice but to do whatever their husband wanted since even her family would expect her to stay regardless of his behavior. I can’t imagine being unhappy with a marriage and being stuck!

[@susanford2388]

Kim's maternal grandfather set off to Australia the same time his daughter, set off to Canada with baby Kim.

[@abyrose3369]

Now I am in tears 😭 😭 😭 😭

[@Matthew-my6ry]

She said "other than being a sperm donor" LOL

[@janellepolley4808]

Heartbreaking

[@denisegonzales7890]

Thank u for your story!

[@kit2130]

The same thing happened to me.

[@cbj-mv1ss]

Shame he would never know he had a beautiful celebrity granddaughter

[@Benjaminleo815]

Secrets and lies always come to light.

[@soniazaccafia8130]

Unfortunately there are people that for selfish reasons make choices that affect the lives of other people without a second thought!! It's heartless and cruel especially leaving innocent souls blood of their blood behind. But these people don't have an empathetic bone in their bodies!! But as Kim Catrall's Mum said....if only you could see us now!!...maybe that was their good karma for the pain they suffered as children. Bless them all ❤

[@kelkel5598]

wow this story crushed my heart for those beautiful women! wow just wow I hope somehow those kids of his hears this story. could be a good movie!

[@kristensaenz6421]

My ex husband left me and our 3 kids and got married 3 months before our divorce was final. We have never seen him since. I raised the kids on my own. They have no idea where their father is. He sure missed out.

[@camillep9346]

It’s the ‘not knowing’… now they do 🙏👏 Leaving is one thing, but knowing they have no security or women’s welfare support those days - men who were bigamists were truly the worst 😡🤯. We can never know another’s heart - possibly he was running away from his conscience when he went to Australia - imagine having the incredible Kim Cattrall as your grandaughter and not knowing her…..🙈

[@camillep9346]

@Heloise O'Byrne I’ve never heard of that - do u know which countries had this as a policy and when they started??

[@camillep9346]

@Heloise O'Byrne oh yes didn’t expect it much earlier - so many women have had it so hard with their ggeous offspring - men are missing out!! 👌🏼

[@camillep9346]

@Heloise O'Byrne well u so right dear heart! I often think oh how good we have it ‘in history’….. but we still have a non-sensical gender pay gap AND let’s face it - men will control banking n will continue to make their choices according to their wishes….. also dominating ‘justice’….. I can understand why women have spun off and on lived their lands like ‘Lasbos’, or ‘Amazonia’ 😂

[@svennielsen633]

Everyone with a divorce in the family history can tell you a similar story. I have never seen a picture of my great grandmother after she and my great grandfather were divorced.

[@chelseahulmston9056]

Only there wasn't a divorce. He committed bigamy. Wich is marrying someone while already being still legally married to someone else.

[@yvonneshelton2505]

I think the new brides family had cottoned on or other people where he worked or neighbours hence the sudden move to Australia.

[@rosehart341]

What dignified women

[@toidean633]

YES!🥰

[@deoncarroll60]

Beautiful ladies all of em

[@COO415]

Leaving the children is an entirely different cold hearted thing. Leaving a woman he is not happy with is easy. And women here commenting how he could leave her. Please...

[@misspeo3619]

What Strong and beautiful daughters and Kim. ............. He was a complete looser! Who hides behind curtains and cuts of photos??

[@dkvienna8415]

4 awesome women ….. I hope they get in touch with their siblings … it’s not the fault of the kids Would be great to get an update from Kim. 😍😍😍

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

It’s not the fault of the kids, but their loyalty to their mother may be too much to ignore.

[@davidfearby9200]

A very sad story I remember watching this on TV years back when it was first aired. To leave your entire family behind and never contact them again you have be cold hearted calculating and selfish beyond all forms of normal comprehension and conscience. The story of George Baugh could have been repeated thousands of not millions of times over There many unscrupulous men at that time and before who abandoned their families simply put because they could and it was a feasible option in those days. George Baugh and his sort wouldn’t have got away it in from roughly the 80’s onwards because of one thing: The computer On his second marriage certificate he declared himself as a bachelor today this would have been documented and added to a national database and would have shown he was committing bigamy. Secondly his trail would have been picked up and his lies would have caught him up in his lifetime

[@lisajeter9511]

KC and her family are strong women and have more Class than than there POS father/grandfather!

[@JSandwich13]

Its not tje same but my 3rd great grandfather deserted his wife and left with rwo of their children. Took them back to ireland to live. They were ten and five. Whatever the circumstance, being seperated from your mother at such a young age can't have been easy.

[@robertab7341]

I wonder if he left for Australia like that because his past suddenly began to get closer to him.

[@petershim5900]

Oh Kim that was hard to watch you showing the ladies 😭

[@mariajohnson8023]

These 3 ladies gained 4 other siblings, I hope they are given an opportunity to get to know the 3 that are still living and not allow the decisions of their donor to impact their lives moving forward. It sounds as if this person made impulsive decisions based on their individual needs "in the moment". How often do you think this happens 🤔 to any person in their lifetime? I can say it's happened to me, I moved 1200 miles away from family, (parents, and extended) to gain a better life with more opportunities for my children. It was the best decision I ever made! But I also lost out on years with my parents, their elders, and close cousinship.

[@inac.7842]

Shocking

[@arsaeterna4285]

0:42 when you spot a silver boxster in a split second of frame You're a Porsche guy

[@loucrappi5869]

I've seen this quite a few times I helped you do go to Australia and meet all the rest of the family it would be something to see and watch they probably till this day have no idea

[@vnmeister9418]

They definitely know about her and this. They were the one that provided the middle aged photos of him in Australia!

[@beverlyshane8433]

Such a sad story. Knowing how I am I would go to Australia and find his remaining family and let them know. I know nothing that happened was there fault but I’m sure they thought he was a good man. His 3 little girls wearing rags and had no food. Yeah I would let them know.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Even if they knew it still wouldn’t change the past. You act like they’re responsible for the father’s actions.

[@Smartychase]

I can see both sides of the argument

[@ronaldalexanderdamiandiaz8449]

extremely good

[@avalancesanvers3828]

Imagine his grand children from his 2nd family, watching this video