50-year-old ‘Empire’ star Taraji P. Henson says she cries whenever she tells her son: 26-year-old Marcell Johnson, about how his father died!
In the latest episode of her Facebook Watch series ‘PEACE OF MIND WITH TARAJI,’ the star sits down with producer Tracie Jade Jenkins and a therapist named Sierra Hillsman to talk about how she dealt with her son’s father dying when he was only nine…Taraji says: “My son’s father was suddenly taken — murdered — when he was 9, and I didn’t know how to tell him that. I couldn’t tell him he was murdered, so I told him he died in an accident.”
The star continued: “Later on in life he found out and he came back to me and was like, ‘Why didn’t you tell me my daddy was murdered?’ And so then we had to get therapy.” Watch below and let us know what you think: