Rebecca Makonnen
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Rebecca Makonnen is a Canadian television and radio broadcaster, currently host of the weekly talk and interview series De l'huile sur le feu on Ici Radio-Canada Première.[1]
She was born in Ethiopia to Adunya Makonnen, a medical doctor married to Virginie Michaud, a Canadian nurse from New Brunswick who was working in the country.[2]
Despite having grown up in Quebec with Michaud, her 2024 autobiography Dans mon sang publicly revealed for the first time that Michaud was not her biological mother, and in fact she had been conceived in an extramarital affair that her father had with another woman while Michaud had traveled back to Canada for an extended visit prior to divorcing Adunya.[3] Despite this, Michaud actively asked for custody of Rebecca following the divorce, and raised her in a loving household; Makonnen has stated that she considers Michaud to be her real mother regardless of the situation, and never experienced any desire to meet or connect with her biological mother.[4]
