For the most part, Oprah’s life has been an open book. “I think I’ve seen just about everything and heard every story,” she says. “I thought nothing could surprise me anymore. But let me tell you, I was wrong.”

Just before Thanksgiving 2010, Oprah received some news about her family that she says shook her to her core.

“[It’s] a bombshell family secret that left me speechless,” she says. “Only a handful of people in my life know about this.”

With the way the media works today, Oprah says there’s no way the story wouldn’t eventually get out, so she and her family made the decision to do this show.

“I wanted you to hear it from me first,” she says. It all starts with one woman’s story…a mother from Milwaukee who discovered she’s Oprah’s half-sister.

Patricia was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 26, 1963. From the moment she came into the world, Patricia’s life was far from easy. “I was put up for adoption at birth, and I was left in the hospital for about a month,” Patricia says.

For the next seven years of Patricia’s life, she bounced around from one foster home to another before finally being adopted.

All this time, she says she longed to be reunited with her birth mother. “I had some disbelief that she didn’t mean to put me up for adoption.

I just would always wish that my birth mother was going to come back and get me,” Patricia says. “Then, as you get older, you know that that’s not going to happen.”

When Patricia was 17 years old, she gave birth to a daughter, Aquarius, and six years later, she had a son, Andre.

“I had my daughter very young, and my whole goal with wanting to have my daughter is to have a part of me—to be able to look at her and see a part of me,” Patricia says.

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