Her daughter, Jane, decided to approach journalist Sixsmith agreed to take on the story.
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She divorced her first husband and later remarried.When she was 18, Philomena became pregnant by a man named John, who worked for the post office. He was taken by an American couple, Doc and Marge Hess, and named 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Lee is now an advocate and spokesperson for adoption rights.She married in 1959, had two more children, Jane and Kevin, and worked as a nurse. "They have to in England when they come to 18 but in Ireland they won’t tell you and keep it secret from you, so I think this is bringing it out into the fore”.She even visited the Vatican with Steve Coogan and Jane to speak with with Pope Francis.It is estimated that there were 2,200 American adoptions from convents in Ireland in the 1950s.The dedicated mum and sister have started The Philomena Project with the ultimate goal of getting adoption legislation changed so that people in a similar situation to Philomena and Anthony won’t face the same heartbreak in trying to find each other. He and Philomena spent years researching, until they discovered that her son had been put up for adoption by the nuns at the Abbey. For decades, she had secretly been trying to find out what had happened to her son, without success. After Lee completed her formal education at the convent, she went to live with her maternal aunt, Kitty Madden. She was then sent to the Around Christmas, in 2003, Lee revealed to her family that she had given birth to a son when she was 19, and she did not know his whereabouts. We speak with the real Philomena and her daughter. Philomena Lee On ‘Philomena’ by Uinterview Philomena Lee Biography, Search For Son At the age of 19, Philomena Lee gave birth to an illegitmate son, whom she named Anthony. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.Philomena Lee's life-long search to find her son is documented in an award-winning film.