Woman discovers dad isn’t her biological father after stranger texts her to get DNA test

A woman has shared how her world turned upside down after a stranger texted her to get a DNA test.

A woman in the US has shared how she discovered her dad isn’t her biological father after a stranger texted her to get a DNA test.

In a series of videos, TikTok user Lane (@laneiscool14) detailed her remarkable story.

Last year, she received an anonymous message from an unknown phone number encouraging her to conduct an Ancestry.com test.

“This f**king text message right here changed my life forever,” she said in a three-minute clip.

“About a year ago now, on Jan 9, I get a text message telling me to get a DNA test from Ancestry.

“And I think it’s fake, I FaceTime my friend, and I’m like, ‘Listen to this’. And she’s like, ‘I swear my gut is telling me this is real. You need to respond’. So I respond, and then they write me back.”

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TikTok user Lane (@laneiscool14) discovered her dad isn't her biological father after a stranger texted her to get a DNA test. Picture: TikTok/laneiscool14

Last year, she received an anonymous message from an unknown phone number encouraging her to conduct an Ancestry.com test. Picture: TikTok/laneiscool14

The Brooklyn-based TikToker said the text conversation left her “shook”. She added that the person made a “burner account on Facebook” to message her and her husband about the DNA test.

“They would not provide me with any sort of proof that this was real, and, obviously, I called my mum immediately, saying, ‘What the f**k,’” she continued.

Lane’s mother ultimately confessed that she had an affair with a 25-year-old man while she was in college at age 35 receiving her degree in education.

She admitted the man who raised Lane was not her father.

“I almost fell off my f**king chair,” Lane explained in the video.

“She had an affair with a guy ten years younger than her when she was in college.

“It was a one-time thing, but he even saw her on campus and said, ‘Is that mine?’ and she denied it.”

Lane immediately ordered an Ancestry test. Six weeks later, she received her results.

“I find out that, yes, this man is my father. So I message him immediately, and he lives in California. He’s British. What the f**k?” she said.

“He said my mum sent him a Christmas card when I was two years old, saying my name in it and that he’s googled my name ever since.

“In 2007, my name popped up, and he saw a picture of me, and he knew immediately that I was his daughter.”

Lane posted a side-by-side photo of her and her biological father. Picture: TikTok/laneiscool14

Lane said her biological father emailed her mother to get in contact with her, but she “threatened him” and said to “leave them alone” and never contact them again.

“So what did he do? He followed me on social media my entire life,” she said.

“He watched me date my boyfriend, get married, have babies, everything, all from the outside, not able to know me.”

Lane then posted a side-by-side photo of her and her biological father, writing, “I’m telling you this picture freaked me the f**k out.”

Her first video attracted 10.5 million views with many users shocked by Lane’s story and keen to find out more details.

“Horrific. He was denied a daughter,” one person wrote.

“I am glad you know the truth but a hell of a way to find out,” another said.

“This is heartbreaking,” added another TikToker, while one remarked, “You look so much like your bio dad.”

“That makes me so sad he missed out on so much when he wanted to be involved,” a third said.

Lane said the family secret put a significant strain on her relationship with her mother. Picture: TikTok/laneiscool14

In a follow-up video, Lane revealed her biological father once called her place of work at the time and asked what time it closed in the hopes of hearing her voice.

He also wanted to go get his haircut by her at the salon she worked at, but said his wife advised against it because she thought Lane would immediately know he was her father.

Lane said in another video that it wasn’t her biological father who sent the text messages, but his nephew, who found himself in a similar experience.

Lane said the family secret put a significant strain on her relationship with her mother. As a result, she cut her out of her life.

“Cutting my mum off was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Lane said.

“Never would I have ever expected it.”

Lane said cutting her mother off was tough. Picture: TikTok/laneiscool14

Lane told viewers her first meeting with her biological father was awkward, leaving her feeling “very confused, very invalidated”.

“I was there for like five days. We met up once or twice a day to hang out and go out to eat or something and every time I felt like I was prying information out of him and I just felt like he didn’t like me,” she explained.

“I was A-OK until the last day, and then I got very emotional because I guess I was just hoping by the last day it would be different and when it wasn’t, it was just hard.”

In a recent update, Lane revealed that she and the father who raised her haven’t spoken about the news, but he does know she isn’t his biological daughter.

“One of my sisters who I’m estranged with, immediately told him. So, I don’t know what his reaction was,” she said.

“I can only imagine he was just as devastated as me, but then there is also the fact that between him and [me], not a lot changes,’ she said.

“That is still my dad. I am still his daughter. My kids are still his grandkids.”

Lane explained that will talk to him about it eventually and is taking things at her own pace.

“I just feel like I have two dads now, which is a good thing,” she concluded.