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Gemma Collins admits she didn't feel 'whole' before discovering her family's history on Who Do You Think You Are? and says looking into her mother's past felt like 'opening Pandora's Box'


Gemma Collins has admitted that she didn't feel 'whole' before discovering the truth about her family history while filming BBC 's Who Do You Think You Are ?

The research into her Essex roots, which goes back 200 years, sees Gemma make a shocking discovery about why her then teenage grandmother, also called Joan, had to give up her child, with the show also uncovering long-lost relatives who it turns out, do not live too far from the Collins family. In an exclusive interview with MailOnline ahead of her season 21 episode airing on September 26, the TV personality explained how for several years growing up, her family knew little about or spoke of Joan's past, with the issue becoming a 'taboo subject'. The research into her Essex roots sees Gemma make a shocking discovery about why her then teenage grandmother, also called Joan, had to give up her child, with the show also uncovering long-lost relatives who it turns out, do not live too far from the Collins family

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