Julie Chen learned a valuable lesson from her family’s dark history.
On Thursday’s The Talk, the 46-year-old shared the terrible story of her great-grandmother and aunt being kidnapped and held for ransom.
Chen explained that since her grandfather was a wealthy businessman, it drew a “target on his back” years ago.
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Apparently, a group of bandits once kidnapped his elderly mother and one of his teenage daughters, threatening to kill them if a large ransom wasn’t paid.
Julie’s grandfather managed to gather up all the money and gave it to his nephew to deliver for the exchange… except the family member double-crossed him and “disappeared into the night with the money.”
Unfortunately, it was that very stab in the back that led to the murder of the CBS host’s great-grandmother:
“As it turned out, because of that, the bandits murdered my great-grandmother and my mom’s sister in the end ended up marrying one of the bandits who murdered her grandmother.”
Despite going through such a tragedy, Chen’s grandfather “didn’t blame the bandits” for his loss, but instead “blamed the fact that the bandits didn’t have an education.”
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That’s why the businessman decided to take the path of light and ended up building a school in his poverty-stricken hometown in hopes that future generations wouldn’t be led to a life of crime — and it worked!
Now there’s a silver lining!!
Ch-ch-check out Julie Chen’s heartbreaking tale from The Talk (below)!!!
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