Taraji P. Henson Recalls Telling Her Son That His Father Was Murdered

Taraji P. Henson is opening about the murder of her son’s father.

In the course of the Wednesday, Jan. 6 episode of the actress’ new Facebook Enjoy series Peace of Thoughts With Taraji, the Golden World winner candidly spoke about the second she resolved to go to the treatment with her now 26-year-old son Marcell Johnson.

“My son’s father was quickly taken, murdered, when he was nine, and I didn’t know how to convey to him that. I could not inform him he was murdered, so I informed him he died in an accident,” she spelled out to her co-hosts, meditation instructor Tracie Jade Jenkins and therapist Sierra Hilsman. “Later on on in existence he located out and he came again to me and was like, ‘Why didn’t you notify me my daddy was murdered?’ And so then we experienced to get therapy.”

The 50-12 months-outdated Hidden Figures star then posed the problem to Sierra as to what is the greatest way to have delicate conversations with youthful youngsters.