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00:00I've got another confession to make
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 10 celebrities
00:07who had children after cheating on their husbands or wives.
00:10But she had actually come to you about the affair
00:12and the possibility of a child many years before, correct?
00:16Mm-hmm.
00:18Dave Grohl
00:19What if I say I'm not just another one in your place?
00:23Gonna pretend you're...
00:24The Foo Fighters frontman has a history of infidelity.
00:27Shortly after, he met Jordan Blum at a Hollywood whiskey bar
00:30and the two married in 2003.
00:32They would have three children together, but Grohl would have a fourth.
00:36On September 10, 2024, Grohl made a post to Instagram
00:40admitting that he had fathered another child outside of his marriage to Blum.
00:44Why is he not snipped by now?
00:47And speaking of that marriage, it seems to be ending.
00:50Shortly after the post was made, an anonymous source told People
00:53that Grohl had hired a divorce attorney before making the announcement.
00:57This is, like, obviously a terrible situation.
00:59As far as statements go, I feel like he handled it the best way he could.
01:01I do, too.
01:02Morena Baccarin
01:03Experience has been more than... It was very good. Thank you.
01:07The time went too quickly.
01:09Starring in the likes of Firefly and Deadpool,
01:12Morena Baccarin married director and producer Austin Chick in 2011.
01:16They had one child, a son born in 2013.
01:20Soon after, Baccarin landed the role of Leslie Tompkins on Gotham
01:24and met co-star Ben McKenzie.
01:26The two soon fell in love, and Chick filed for divorce in July of 2015.
01:31Can you turn things around? Can you take back control?
01:33According to legal documents,
01:35Baccarin told Chick that she was three and a half months pregnant in September.
01:39This checks out, as Baccarin's and McKenzie's daughter was born the following March.
01:43They have both since married and had another child.
01:45Rough childhood?
01:47Rougher than yours. Daddy left before I was born.
01:50Daddy left before I was conceived.
01:52Dan Marino
01:53Hall of Famer Dan Marino in Garden City today
01:55as part of the grand opening of Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza.
01:59Often considered one of the greatest quarterbacks in football history,
02:02Dan Marino played 17 seasons exclusively with the Miami Dolphins.
02:06He also seemed to have a fairytale home life,
02:08marrying Claire Vesey in 1985 and fathering six children.
02:12But news broke in 2013 that Marino had a secret daughter
02:15with CBS production assistant Donna Savatier.
02:18I didn't... Right after that, I kind of put in my mind,
02:21I'm just going to go forward and not worry about what happened.
02:24The baby girl was born back in June 2005,
02:26and Marino gave Savatier millions of dollars to both care for the girl
02:30and keep quiet about the affair.
02:32Despite the breaking news, Marino remains married to Vesey
02:35and is reportedly in contact with his and Savatier's daughter.
02:39You're an icon here in South Florida.
02:41What are your thoughts heading into this year's big game?
02:43Chuck Norris
02:44All right, okay. I know. We had visitors.
02:49We love a good high school sweetheart's success story.
02:52Future actor and martial artist Chuck Norris met Diana Holichick in high school,
02:56and the two married in 1958 while still teenagers.
02:59They remained married until 1989.
03:02Unfortunately, it wasn't long after their coupling that Norris had an affair
03:06and fathered a daughter with an unknown woman.
03:08Just put a lid on this, you wouldn't believe.
03:10How the hell can you get away with that?
03:12She was born in 1963, but she didn't learn of her true parentage
03:16until 1979 when she was 16 years old.
03:19However, she was discouraged from reaching out.
03:22She finally did so when she was 26,
03:24writing Norris a letter and encouraging him to meet her.
03:27He did, and the story was finally told in his autobiography Against All Odds.
03:32Like I said, you don't know anything about me.
03:35Eric Clapton
03:36Patty Boyd was described as the great love of your life, true?
03:42Um, I don't know, Ed.
03:44One of the most famous guitarists in history,
03:46Eric Clapton led a very rock and roll lifestyle,
03:49and that included the use of drugs and alcohol,
03:52not to mention numerous extramarital affairs.
03:55He fell in love with George Harrison's wife, Patty Boyd,
03:57and when she and Harrison divorced in 1977,
04:00Clapton swooped in and the two soon married.
04:03However, their marriage was marred by mistreatment and infidelity,
04:07with Clapton fathering two children with two different women.
04:10So that's why I said I don't know if I loved her,
04:12because as a practicing drunk, which I was then,
04:15I just wanted something very badly.
04:17The first was a daughter named Ruth,
04:19who was born in 1985 from an affair with record company manager Yvonne Kelly.
04:24A son named Connor followed in 1986, born to Italian model Lori Del Santo.
04:30It was this second affair that prompted Boyd to leave Clapton in 1989.
04:35It was during the relapse that he had an affair with Italian actress Lori Del Santo.
04:41She would become the mother of Clapton's only son, Connor.
04:44Liam Gallagher
04:45Something a little bit like out of order, and I do apologize for that, but, you know.
04:52Oasis is one of the most notorious bands of our time,
04:56known far and wide for their public mischief
04:58and the constant infighting between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher.
05:02And it turns out that Liam's personal life is just as tumultuous as his professional career.
05:06Gallagher married actress Patsy Kensett in April 1997,
05:10but just two months later, he was sleeping with musician Lisa Moorish.
05:14They had a daughter named Molly in 1998,
05:16but Gallagher wouldn't meet her for another 20 years.
05:20Gallagher divorced Kensett in 2000 and married Nicole Appleton in 2008.
05:34However, he would once again be unfaithful,
05:37entering an affair with journalist Liza Gorbani and fathering a daughter with her in January 2013.
05:43He divorced Appleton the following year.
05:56The winner of three Oscars, two Emmys, and a Tony,
05:59Ingrid Bergman is an absolute legend of a performer.
06:02But despite her wild success, Bergman led a tumultuous personal life.
06:07She married dentist Petter Lindstrom in 1937,
06:10but embarked on numerous affairs throughout their time together.
06:13Lindstrom accepted this, claiming that Bergman's income made up for her infidelity.
06:23It was during the filming of Stromboli that Bergman had an affair
06:26with director Roberto Rossellini.
06:28She gave birth to their son Robin on February 2, 1950,
06:31and divorced Lindstrom just a week later, going on to marry Rossellini.
06:36The affair was huge news at the time,
06:38and remains one of the most notable scandals of classic Hollywood.
06:48Clint Eastwood
06:49The personal life of Clint Eastwood has been the subject of much speculation for decades.
07:07An intensely private person, Eastwood refuses to discuss his relationships and family,
07:12but he has fathered at least eight children with six different women,
07:16and many of them were born out of wedlock.
07:18Eastwood married his first wife Maggie Johnson in 1953,
07:22but they had an open relationship that Johnson knowingly tolerated.
07:36Eastwood had at least two children outside of their marriage, both to different women.
07:40He finally left Johnson in 1984 in the midst of an affair with actress Sandra Locke.
07:45And while they were never married,
07:47Eastwood also had two children outside of his relationship with Locke,
07:50including actor Scott Eastwood.
08:01Evander Holyfield
08:08A legend of the boxing ring,
08:10Evander Holyfield was on top of the world in September 1998.
08:13He had recently defeated Von Bean to retain his WBA and IBF heavyweight titles,
08:19and he and his wife Janice had just given birth to their first child.
08:22But just one week after their baby was born,
08:25Holyfield admitted that he had been unfaithful.
08:38In a shocking announcement, the boxer revealed that he had fathered two children
08:42the year before with two different women. Holyfield ultimately had 11 children with
08:46six different women, some of whom grew up to become professional athletes themselves.
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09:16Arnold Schwarzenegger
09:26One of the most notable scandals of our time was unleashed on May 16, 2011,
09:30when the Los Angeles Times revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a son
09:34with his housekeeper Mildred Baina. Schwarzenegger was married to Maria Shriver at the time,
09:39and they had been together since 1986. However, she left Schwarzenegger on May 9,
09:45just one week before the Los Angeles Times published the story.
09:53Baina gave birth to their son Joseph in 1997,
09:56just five days after Shriver gave birth to their youngest child Christopher.
10:01Schwarzenegger was unaware that Baina's child was his until he grew up and, quote,
10:05started looking like him. He has since taken full financial responsibility
10:10and bought the Bainas a house in 2010.
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