Young Scots mum shares emotional moment she meets long-lost dad and grandparents

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A young Scots mum has shared the emotional moment she finally met her long-lost dad and grandparents for the first time.Megan Ellis, from Drumchapel, Glasgow, had longed to meet her dad Alistair Gillespie, 40, since she first found out who he was when she was eight years old.The pair were finally able to meet more than a decade later and in a heartwarming video, Megan, 22, is greeted by her grandparents before finally seeing her dad in person.While Megan had been in contact with her dad during her teenage years through messages, this came to an abrupt end when her dad faced personal relationship issues.But after falling pregnant with her son, Ross Lennox, now three, Megan made the decision to get back in contact with her dad as she wanted her son to 'have a full family around him.'Alistair, who is currently unemployed, sadly attempted to take his own life and suffered a brain injury which caused memory loss.To confirm that Megan was indeed his daughter, the pair took a DNA test - and it was a match.Megan also got the chance to meet further family members in the form of her grandparents, sisters, and her auntie.She said of her motivation: "I had grown up not knowing who he was.

I had always been looking for information about who he could be from the age of eight, possibly a little younger."It's really been something I've spent my full life trying to complete - it was all I wanted."We finally got in contact after he messaged my mum, and she allowed me to speak to him.

We would speak, then not for weeks and months at a time."Then finally, I never heard from him again due to his situation at the time."She explained that the pair initially got in contact on Facebook in 2017, when she was around 15.Megan said: "We started to