Joe Manganiello details his great-grandmother's harrowing escape from the Armenian Genocide
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dailymail.co.ukJoe Manganiello recounted his great-grandmother's harrowing escape from the Armenian Genocide for the PBS series Finding Your Roots.Airing on Tuesday February 7 at 8 p.m.
ET, the jaw-dropping show – which recently told Edward Norton that his 12th great-grandmother was Pocahontas – also reveals that Manganiello is descended from slaves.In an exclusive video shared with People, Manganiello detailed the heartbreaking survival story of how his great-grandmother fled from Armenia in 1915 after witnessing the murder of her husband and seven children.He said: 'The Turks came into her home in 1915 under the guise of World War I and tried to enact the genocide that they had begun.'They shot her husband dead, shot her.
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