How Chuck Norris learned of secret love child he didn’t know existed for nearly 30 years

Chuck Norris sewage nan daze of his life successful 1991 erstwhile he recovered retired he fathered a kid during an affair.

The precocious actor cheated connected his first wife, Dianne Holechek, pinch different unnamed woman, which resulted successful nan commencement of Norris’ daughter, Dina, successful 1964.

Norris had nary thought Dina, now 62, existed for nan adjacent 26 years, until she reached retired to her celebrated father.

“I was going done my message astatine location and I spot this missive and I unfastened it up,” Norris recalled successful a 2004 question and reply pinch Entertainment Tonight.

“It’s from Dina … and she says, ‘I’m your girl from a past experience,’ and she said, ‘I recovered retired you were my begetter erstwhile I was 16, but my mother said you were joined and we shouldn’t interfere pinch your family.'”

In his 2004 memoir, “Against All Odds: My Story,” Norris said that he publication nan missive to his mother, who agreed to meet pinch Dina first, per nan Daily Mail.

And aft they did truthful astatine her home, Norris’ mom called up her boy and told him to travel complete immediately.

“I walked into nan surviving room and astir had my activity knocked retired of me,” Norris wrote successful his book.

“There, opinionated earlier me, was a beautiful young lady,” he said astir Dina. “I was stunned, but nan infinitesimal I saw her, I knew. I didn’t request DNA aliases humor tests; location was nary uncertainty successful my mind that she was my daughter.”

Norris added that aft nan brace hugged and started crying, he felt “as if I had known her each of her life.”

After their first encounter, Norris and Dina forged an highly adjacent relationship.

“I americium blessed to person her arsenic my daughter,” he penned successful nan memoir. ‘Certainly, I cognize now that God does not condone premarital aliases extramarital intersexual relationships. But I’ve besides discovered that location is nary specified point arsenic an ‘illegitimate child.'”

“Every babe is morganatic successful God’s eyes; each kid is precious successful his sight.”

Three years earlier he heard from Dina, Norris divided from Holecheck aft 30 years of marriage. The exes had 2 sons together: Mike, now 63, and Eric, now 60.

Norris wrote successful his book that Dina decided to scope retired to him aft learning he was divorced.

“It was past that she decided to constitute to maine pinch nan support of her husband, Damien,” nan martial creator shared.

Dina is still joined to Damien, pinch whom he shares 3 children.

They each appeared successful one of Norris’ Facebook photos from a 2015 family picnic to Hawaii.

“Here’s different family photograph from Kauai. This clip pinch our girl Dina, her hubby Damien and their boys Dante & Eli,” Norris captioned nan post.

In 1998, Norris joined his 2nd wife, Gena O’Kelley, with whom he welcomed twins Dakota and Danilee, now 24.

The twins each shared tributes to nan Hollywood prima aft he abruptly died connected Thursday astatine property 86.

Dakota wrote connected Instagram that he looked up to Norris his “whole life.”

“Your generosity, your kindness, your courage, your integrity, your strength, your discipline, and your religion successful nan Lord were conscionable a fistful of things I ever admired astir you,” Dakota said.

Meanwhile, Danilee called her “sweet father” her “protector,” and admitted that “losing a genitor is thing that you are ne'er prepared for.”

“My dada loved truthful profoundly and cared for each azygous personification successful his life pinch truthful overmuch tenderness,” she wrote successful her tribute.

Norris’ family announced connected Friday that he died nan erstwhile greeting aft suffering a aesculapian emergency successful Hawaii.

“To nan world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a awesome of strength. To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving begetter and grandfather, an unthinkable brother, and nan bosom of our family.”