Surprise! The world was shook after fans found out Clint Eastwood had a ‘love child’ named Laurie Murray. So, how exactly did this woman found out she was the daughter of such a Hollywood icon?
Laurie Murray, 64, found out that she was the secret daughter of Clint Eastwood, 88, when she went searching for her roots. “This all happened around 30 years ago. Laurie had been really interested in finding out who her real parents were and hired someone to help her,” a family friend told the Daily Mail. Her mother — who had a serious relationship with Clint in Seattle when he was still engaged to his first wife, Maggie Johnson, according to the Daily Mail – gave Laurie up for adoption shortly after she was born.
If you need any more proof of this, look to the 2004 Oscars. Pictures from the event show Laurie in a gown with Clint’s second wife, Dina. On the carpet, Laurie joined her father to help his mother, Ruth Wood, walk into the event. “We always wondered why it was never really widely known or widely acknowledged before. He took Laurie to the Oscars around the time that he was nominated for Mystic River with his mom and Dina,” the insider tells the Mail.
The world quote-unquote “found out” about Laurie after she attended the premiere of Clint’s new movie, The Mule, on Dec. 10. All of Clint’s eight children showed up, and his youngest daughter, Morgan Eastwood, 22, confirmed that Laurie is indeed her sister. His other children include Kimber Tunis, 54, Kyle Eastwood, 50, Scott Eastwood, 32, Kathryn Reeves, 30, and Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, 25.