Rochelle Humes has opened up on her relationship with her dad and says she can finally forgive him for not being a part of her childhood.
This Morning presenter Rochelle, 32, was a baby when her parents Roz Wiseman and Mark Piper split, but the star says she no longer has any bad feelings towards him — and coming to terms with it led her to two half-sisters she didn’t know about, who she recently holidayed with in Dubai.
She also shared how husband Marvin Humes helped her healing process by being a great father to their three children — Alaia-mai, eight, Valentina, four and Blake, eighteen months.
Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, Rochelle shared: “It was just me and Mum. She and Dad split when I was tiny, just short of one.
“And then that was sort of it, really. I had contact with my dad for little bursts of time but it was never anything solid. And then the contact stopped altogether.”
Rochelle, who was raised in Barking, East London, by her paramedic mum Roz, shared how at 17 she passed her driving test and then became curious about tracking her dad down. She said: “You are always going to have that level of curiosity in life.”
She knew her dad had a son called Jake, but she later learned he also had two daughters — Sophie and Lili Piper — who she later learned of via a chance encounter with Love Island star Kem Cetinay at a party.
“He said to me ‘Look, this is really weird, I went to school with your sister’. Next thing, I had her number saved in my phone.
“I arranged to meet them for dinner, all three of them, two sisters and a brother. I had the worst tummy ache. I was so nervous, I made Marv come with me. I just felt really vulnerable about the whole thing.
“Genes are really mad. Growing up, my family didn’t look like everyone else’s. I grew up in a white family. I was very aware. I had a side of my family, my black side, that I wasn’t around.
“But me and my siblings are so similar. Mannerisms and everything. Now we talk every single day. I can’t remember a time when they weren’t in my life now.
“It really is a gift. I’m not holding on to feelings of anger that my dad wasn’t around for me. There is always light at the end of the tunnel. My light is them.”
Rochelle added that, while she forgives her father for the past, she currently has no plans to get to know him. The star also credits her husband Marvin with helping her make peace with the past.
She continued: “That comes with age. I don’t need a dad at my age. Because I have my own family set-up and I am secure. When I had my own children, I weirdly became less curious about him.
“I saw what being a dad was from my husband. And I knew what being a parent was because I was a parent and besotted and in love and lived my live for my kids.
“For some people that changes after they have kids, and they’d like them to know their grandparents. But my biggest thing in life is to protect these little ones. You can be flaky with me. But there is no way I would have them sat by the window saying, ‘Is Grandaddy coming to get me’? I have got control over that.
“I am not against it, I would be open, but it is not something I would seek now."
The star recently holidayed with husband Marvin, their children and her two lookalike sisters in Dubai.
Former Saturdays singer Rochelle shared a series of snaps from the family trip to Dubai, including a post paying tribute to her presenter husband and son.
“I didn’t grow up with a man in the house so I genuinely didn’t know it was possible to get THIS much happiness from 2…My boys…my world,” wrote Rochelle alongside the sweet shots of them on the beach.
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