The bombshell revelations that turned my family on its head
TV host Carmen Rita Wong grew up in a Dominican-Chinese family, but as she got older the extraordinary truth about her past, and about her parents, began to surface.
TV host Carmen Rita Wong was born into a big, vibrant family in New York. Her mother was Dominican and her father Chinese, but as she got into her 20s she began to wonder if the man she had always believed was her father really was. When Carmen's mother was diagnosed with cancer, a series of earth-shattering revelations about Carmen's parentage would turn everything she had thought about her family on its head. She has written a memoir about what she uncovered called Why Didn't You Tell Me?
The clip you heard came from CNBC'S On The Money (2008).
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Presenter: India Rakusen
Producer: June Christie
(Photo: Carmen Rita Wong. Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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