‘Mean Girls’ star reacted in horror to story of her third great-grandfather’s death, saying: ‘Oh my God, that’s so sad!’. Amanda Seyfried made a horrifying discovery about her third great-grandfather during a recent appearance on the PBS show Finding Your Roots.
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In a teaser clip from the season 11 premiere of the docu-series — which sees host Henry Louis Gates Jr. meet with celebrities to break down their ancestries — the 39-year-old Mean Girls star was handed an old newspaper clipping. “Oh my God, what? Oh my God,” Seyfried said as she read the article stating that her great-grandfather’s grandfather had been fatally shot at his home one night in 1905.
“John P. Ebert, the well-known retired baker, a good citizen and inoffensive man, was shot three times by an unknown assailant on the back step of his home at Washington and Lumber Street at 9:30 last night,” the article began. It described the fateful event, saying that Ebert likely had his hand on the doorknob of his backdoor “when from between the outhouse and the grape arbor which screens it stepped a man who fired three shots at him point blank at a range not more than a yard.”.
The article detailed that Ebert was “so seriously wounded that he cannot possibly recover.”. “Oh my God, that’s so sad!” Seyfried said, reacting in shock. “Your third great-grandfather was murdered. Have you ever heard this story before?” Gates Jr. asked.
