Sunny Hostin on Doing a Genealogy Test: ‘The Family Business’ Was ‘Enslavers’ and It Was ‘Deeply Disappointing’ to Learn the Truth

HOSTIN: “You know, I was really reluctant. I don’t know how you felt when you did it, Whoopi, but I was really reluctant to do it because I just sensed that there could be something in my family history that would be disappointing.”
BEHAR: “Negative.”
HOSTIN: “Negative, yes. I thought I was going to have that kind of moment. And Skip had asked me to do it for a long time. And I finally decided to do it, because I thought it’d be helpful for my children, and my children’s children to know what their real real history was, you know. But what I found out was that my mother’s family while they are Puerto Rican, they actually originate from Spain. And the reason that they moved to Puerto Rico is because the slave trade had been sort of canceled in Spain and then Curacao, and then they moved all of their slaves to Puerto Rico. And so the biz — the family business, I had been told that they were printers and journalists, but they were in fact enslavers. And my mother — it was deeply disappointing.”