Andy Samberg Gets 'Chills Still Talking About' This ‘Trippy’ Coincidence in His Mom’s Adoption Story: 'Like from a Movie'

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Andy Samberg opened up about his mother's adoption story on the recent episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler

He previously appeared on Finding Your Roots, where he and his mom learned about her birth parents

After connecting with their families, he said they discovered an unlikely coincidence

Just when Andy Samberg thought his mom’s adoption story couldn’t get crazier, it did!

During an appearance on the latest episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, the 46-year-old comedian reflected on his 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, where he and his mother Marjorie Marrow, who's adopted, learned the identities of her birth parents. In the years since, Samberg revealed that they have uncovered more shocking details.

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“What came out of it was they found out who both her parents were, and now we're in touch with both sides of her family,” he shared. “She has four half-siblings on her father's side and then a couple of first cousins still with us and their families on her mother's side.”

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Marjorie Marrow and Andy Samberg

“And the craziest thing about it by far, that's like, from a movie, that I get chills still talking about,” he continued. “Once she connected with both sides of the families, they both, unbeknownst to each other, went looking through her biological parents’ stuff they still had, and they both found the same photograph of the two of them together. They both had the same picture of them together when they had their brief time together”

The image showed the couple, who he found out met in the Bay Area, on “a date in San Francisco.”

Samberg explained that this was particularly meaningful because that’s where his mother coincidentally moved as an adult and eventually raised him.

“There were so many weird, trippy things about it,” the Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum noted. “It was really beautiful, and she was so happy. And now we have like, ‘Oh, yeah. We all look like our grandparents.’ ”

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“For my mom especially — she was at this time probably 75, 76 years old — she had given up,” he added. “She was like, ‘I'm going to go my whole life not ever knowing.’ ”

As for why both of his late biological grandparents kept that photo, Samberg said he thinks his mom was meant to see it.

“I have a few theories,” he began. “One is they thought maybe someday this exact thing would happen and they wanted her to find them, if [her father] did know about her. And if not, it's just that maybe they both really enjoyed their time together and it was like, you don't wipe your old relationships from social media. You keep them because they were special to you at that time.”

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He also revealed the reason his mom wasn’t able to find a trace of her adoption story sooner — her agency was the same place investigated in Three Identical Strangers. The 2018 documentary dug into the story of triplet brothers who were intentionally (and unknowingly) separated at birth as part of an unethical experiment exploring nature versus nurture.

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“We were like, that's why we could never find the records and find anything about it, because they disappeared it!” Samberg said, joking: “That's where my mom was adopted from. Not a great rep.”

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