Woman tracks down long-lost mother only to find she has unwittingly married her own brother

A couple spent their lives searching for their respective mothers, who abandoned them as infants in Brazil only to find out that they were siblings.

16:25 07 August 2014

A 39-year-old woman named Adriana from Brazil, who was abandoned by her mother when she was an infant, spent her life searching for her mother. She’s married to 37-year-old Leandro, who like her, was also abandoned by his mum. They spent their lives searching for their mothers both named Maria only to find out that they were actually siblings as their long-lost mothers were one in the same. 

 

Adriana, who was raised by her father, contacted a radio station in their town to ask for help, and just this week, they were reunited live on air. 

 

At the end of the interview, the mother revealed that she also had a son who didn’t know her named Leandro. Shocked, Adriana is heard weeping uncontrollably saying: “ I don’t believe that you’re me telling me this. Leandro is my husband.”

 

At the end of the interview she says: 'Now I'm scared to go home and find out that Leandro doesn't want me any more. I love him so much.'

 

However, despite finding out that they are siblings, the couple, vowed to stay together. 

 

Adriana said: 'Only death is going to separate us. All this happened because God wanted it to happen.

 

'Of course it would have been different if we had known all this before, but we didn't and we fell in love.

 

'We thought it was funny that both our mothers had the same name, but it is a common name so we just thought it was a coincidence.

 

'At first we were really knocked by it all. But we had a family meeting and told everyone that we are going to stay husband and wife, whatever anyone might think.

 

'We have so many plans together, nothing's going to break us up, nothing.'