Kristin Chenoweth Mourns Death of Her “Angel” Birth Mother Lynn – E! Online

In her 2009 memoir A Little Bit Depraved, Kristin wrote about how she initially had “little interest in contacting or being contacted by my organic mom.” Nevertheless, that modified just a few years later.

“I had no concept what to anticipate, and I by no means wished to interrupt anybody’s life, particularly hers,” the actress instructed Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on an episode of Stay earlier this 12 months. “However I might had a nasty accident, and I had a while to actually heal and assume. Troy Dunn had began the ball rolling earlier than. He is a person known as The Locator. And he’d already began it as a result of Oprah [Winfrey] had learn my memoir, and in it I’ve a chapter of thanking my beginning mother and thanking the one which raised me. And he mentioned, ‘I believe it is time you meet her since you rejected it earlier than.'”

And Kristin will always remember that second. 

“I met her, and I walked within the room, and she or he went, ‘It is you?’ And I mentioned, ‘Hello.’ And similar to wanting in a mirror,” she recalled. “And in addition she mentioned, ‘I hope you possibly can forgive me.’ And I mentioned, ‘You gave me life. You gave me life, and Junie Chenoweth, my mother, gave me a life. I’ve nothing however gratitude and like to you.'”