The Talk host Sheryl Underwood as she opens up about her tragic childhood secret
'I was born a twin... but she didn't live': The Talk host Sheryl Underwood as she opens up about her tragic childhood secret
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Following in the footsteps of her The Talk co-hosts during 'secrets week,' Sheryl Underwood revealed the pain of having lost her baby twin sister and the subsequent domestic violence that haunted her childhood.
The 49-year-old comedienne made her sad revelation on Friday as she tearfully recalled her most painful memories to the audience at the CBS talk show.
'People ask where does the "funny" comes from, for me it comes from my desire to never have anyone feel what I felt throughout my childhood and certain periods of my life,' said the normally jovial TV star in a very somber tone. 'So I try to make everybody laugh and everybody happy.'
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Tearful confession: The Talk's Sheryl Underwood revealed her pain over the loss of her twin following their premature birth
'I was born a twin and we were both premature and both in the incubator,' she went on to say, before dropping a bombshell revelation.
'What you don't know is I carry her birth certificate around because she did not live.'
There wasn't a dry eye in the house as Sheryl showed the document from Saint Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Documentation: Sheryl revealed the birth certificate for her twin from Saint Vincent Infirmary
'Those are my sister's little biddy feet,' said Underwood as the yellow document appeared on the screen.
'For years, in my family, my birth mother did not want me and my father to be close to each other so she would tell me that my father killed my sister,' she struggled to say while fighting back the overwhelming emotions.
'And that he propped a bottle up for her to take and she exphixiated... So for years, I loved my father but I did not get very close to him, until one day I saw my mother stab my father.'
Painful: Sheryl's confession was part of an emotional 'secret week' on the show
Captive audience: Sharon Osbourne and Aisha Tyler listened intently to Underwood in silence
After the audience gasped from the bombshell revelation, Underwood went on to explain how she coped with her dysfunctional upbringing.
'A lot of people have domestic violence in their family, a lot of people witness things, so to get through that I started to engage my sister, my twin, as my guardian angel, as that was the only way I knew I could get through it.
'The reason I am telling you ladies this is because every day we are here, we try to laugh, we really do know and love each other, and every day somebody is going through something, and every day, I wish my sister could be here,' she pledged.
Abuse: Sheryl recalled how when her mother stabbed her father, she turned to her sister as a guardian angel
Brought to tears: Earlier in the week, Sara Gilbert revealed her depression before she admitted she was gay
Underwood's sad story rounded up an emotional week on The Talk, which saw all the hosts express their deepest secrets.
After Julie Chen revealed that she had plastic surgery years ago after she was told she looked 'too Chinese,' on Thursday it was the turn of Sara Gilbert to speak for the first time about her realization that she was gay.
Sara, 38, credited her boyfriend at the time, actor Johnny Galecki, for helping her come to terms with the fact that she was a lesbian.
Family troubles: Aisha Tyler's 'secret' was that she and her husband have given up struggling to have a baby
After meeting on the set of Roseanne, 'We started dating and he would come over and we would, like, make out, and then I would start to get depressed.'
It was then that the actress realized she wasn't attracted to members of the opposite sex, adding that she 'eventually told him I thought it was about my sexuality and he was super sweet about it.'
On Tuesday's episode, Aisha Tyler, 42, opened up about how she and husband Jeff Tietjens have given up trying to have a baby after struggling to conceive for two years. ‘We just decided it wasn't worth it to go through that and so we decided to stop,’ she admitted. ‘It was better to not go through that torture.’
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