Taraji P. Henson: I didn’t have the words to tell my son his dad was murdered
By Reuters
10 January 2021 |
6:39 am
Taraji P. Henson “didn’t have the words” to tell her son, Marcell, that his father was murdered when he was just nine years old.
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