‘Maury’ Babies Speak Out Decades After Their Paternity Was Revealed on Live TV: ‘I Was Disgusted’

Makayla Ann recently opened up about learning that she appeared on Maury as an infant, and she said that the news was not something to be celebrated.

Makayla, who goes by Kayla, told the New York Post in an article published on Tuesday, January 20, that she discovered her appearance on the daytime talk show when she was still a child.

“I found out that I was on Maury at 10, when some random person sent me a link to the episode on Facebook,” Kayla told the publication. “I was disgusted. It was trashy.”

When she took her newly discovered information to her mom, her mom “refused to talk” about the situation.

“I resented my mom. She shared a story about me — her drama, my paternity — and it wasn’t hers to tell,” Kayla explained. “The control over my own story was stolen from me at [age] 3.”

Unfortunately, Kayla’s relationship with her mom has yet to recover and she told the publication that things are still strained between them.

The clip also circulated among Kayla’s high school which led to her being bullied. “It went around my high school. I was made fun of. I had a big falling out with a best friend who shared the clip,” she said. “Life was really hard for a while.”

However, not all of the “Maury babies” regret their appearances on the daytime TV show.

Reanna Madura’s mom, Melissa, told her about her own episode when she turned 18.

“I was a senior in high school, and on a random day, my mom sat me down and said, ‘You were on the Maury show as a paternity test baby,” Reanna, 25, told the New York Post. “She thought I was going to be upset, but I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s so cool!’”

Melissa admitted that she suffered through years of “embarrassment” after appearing on the show, but it was something she did for her daughter.

“Those tests cost around $2,500 back then, and I was just an uneducated teenager with very little guidance, who wanted the best for my kid,” she explained.