this is us Star Sterling’s Brown left Kelly Clarkson in tears when he revealed his heartfelt reason that he changed his name at the age of 16.
The 49 -year -old actor, who is known to play the role of Randel Piercene in the NBC drama, revealed that he left his middle name, Kelby, until he was 16 years old – but returned to his original name to pay tribute to his late father.
Speaking Kelly Clarkson ShowHe told the host: “I had gone by my middle name, I went to ‘Kelby’ till the age of 16.”
He said that at that time, he wanted his own name to be separated from his father’s name, Sterling Brown Junior, and his grandfather’s name Sterling Brown Senior.
“I am sterling Kelby Brown, but I wanted my name, and felt as Sterling was like an old man’s name,” Heaven Star told Clarkson.
But when his father died at the age of 45, Brown realized that he wanted to wear his father’s name proudly.
“Because when I was 10 years old, he died, until I turned 16 years old and I did not hear his name for five and a half years, I was so, I just want to hear that name again, so I asked people to say sterling.”
Both Brown and Clarkson became emotional, the host said, “It was very cute and beautiful.”
Brown this is us Character Randel Piercene is the person who lost his father when she was a teenager with similarities with her life.
In 2019, he told today’s Willy GIST that “the dynamic of father and Sons is really strong”.
He explained: “My father was 45 years old when he died, and I was 10 years old,” was going to remember his last memory with my father.
“I remember, like, really specific things,” he said. “That morning was waking up and going to the kitchen, and my mother was going on the phone, calling paramedics and asking me to put clothes on my father, because she was naked in bed and her body was hard,” he said.
Drawing tears, he remembered that paramedics took his father out on a stretcher.
Brown said, “He sees me on the railing and he blinks an eye, just blinking an eye.” “They took her out of the door, last time I saw her.”
He said, “I would say about Sterling Brown, Junior: He filled me with great love,” he said, “So the time was short, it was everything that I expected for 10 years.”
