Uncle Si Finds Out He Was Almost Phyllis’ Dad

Phyllis Robertson Thomas walked into a church service at Whites Ferry Road in West Monroe, Louisiana, on New Year's Eve, not knowing if she would even get close enough to hand a letter to the man she believed was her biological father. She had never watched Duck Dynasty — she and her husband Tony had been missionaries in Nicaragua during the show's run — but after an Ancestry DNA test revealed that the man who raised her was not her father, the evidence pointed toward Phil Robertson. She was forty-four years old, about to meet her dad for the first time, and she could barely get out of the car.

The DNA discovery and a family secret

The discovery did not begin with Phyllis. It began with her oldest son Grant, who received a DNA test kit as a Christmas gift. When the results came back, something did not add up. Grant started dropping hints around his grandmother — Phyllis's mother — but she held the secret tight. Phyllis and her sister eventually took their own tests, compared the results, and confirmed they did not share the same father. Phyllis called her mother and said, "It's DNA." Her mother finally admitted the truth: she had been pregnant with Phyllis during divorce proceedings from her first husband, and she had simply assigned paternity to him in court. The man who raised Phyllis never treated her as anything other than his own daughter, but the physical and perso