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Andy Samberg’s Mom Has an Insane Adoption Story

As in, “she was adopted from the agency in Three Identical Strangers” insane.

“They both, unbeknownst to each other, went looking through her biological parents’ stuff they still had, and they both found the same photograph of the two of them together,” Samberg told Amy Poehler while on her podcast, Good Hang. “And it’s the place from Three Identical Strangers,” referring to the 2018 documentary that followed a pair of triplets who were split up at birth by the Louise Wise adoption agency. “One is they thought maybe someday this exact thing would happen and they wanted her to find them,” he said, though that’s hard to confirm, because Samberg’s mother’s father might not have ever known she existed.

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