{"id":215213,"date":"2019-12-11T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215213"},"modified":"2019-12-11T00:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:49:32","slug":"kristin-chenoweth-pro-life-adoption-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kristin-chenoweth-pro-life-adoption-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by real life, Kristin Chenoweth tells powerful pro-life adoption story in new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth spoke about the pro-life message of her newest movie, “A Christmas Love Story,” a new movie for the Hallmark Channel. It features a powerful adoption scene, where someone meets their birth mother for the first time, and Chenoweth said it was inspired by her own real-life experience.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook Live interview with Denise Albert of “The Moms,” she explained why this scene meant so much to her. \u201cThat scene happened to me,\u201d she said, explaining that it took many takes with “ugly crying” to get through it. \u201cI am adopted and I had this virtual same conversation with my birth mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember her saying to me, \u2018Can you ever forgive me?\u2019” she continued. “And I was like, \u2018There\u2019s nothing to forgive. You gave me such a great life.\u2019 I got the right parents.’ Anyway, that scene is very special to me because we developed it around exactly what happened in my life.”<\/p>\n

She also explained that it had meaning for both of her mothers: the mother who gave her life, and the mother who raised her. “As I watch it, I watch my mom — my mom who raised me, Judy, and then I watch my Mama Lynn,” she said, adding. “How lucky am I to have two women who did that. So one gave me life, and I talk about it, because it’s been coming up because of the movie, and one gave me a<\/em> life, a chance. So both are my angels.”<\/p>\n