A €90 DNA kit has torn a family apart after a man exposed his mum as a cheater.
The young man, who went looking for one as a joke, said he jumped on the "bandwagon" and bought it for himself and his dad in line with a recent trend, The Mirror reported.
What he discovered truly shocked him. He said: "We got our results back a few days ago and I went into the DNA relatives section to check out my matches. At the top it listed my dad as only sharing 29.2% DNA with me and being predicted to be a half-brother, which is impossible."
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He expressed that this just didn't make sense to him and that he surely has to be his dad.
The 19-year-old later discovered he has 24.6% the same DNA with his cousin - meaning she is his half-sister - with cousins normally sharing about 12%.
He added: "I couldn't think of a genetic relationship that would explain what I was seeing and I had doubts in the accuracy of the percentages.
"The shared percentages are extremely accurate and highly unlikely to be false."
He offered that the only possibility for what he was seeing was that his uncle, who is his cousin's father and his dad's brother, is actually his biological father.
"Reality hit me in the face like a flying bag of bricks.
"All the dots lined up and I felt a sense of loss. I sat in my room for an hour just in shock and then I had a feeling of anger come over me. I needed some answers," he stated.
He showed the results as soon as he discovered them to him mum to confront her on the data.
"I asked her if she cheated on dad with uncle David," he said.
"I have never seen the colour drain from someone's face so quickly. She looked dumbfounded and then mumbled: 'What kind of question is this? Of course not," he said of his mom's response.
He then said his mum fell to the ground crying, begging him not to tell his father.
He rang his cousin and half-sister to reveal all the cutting details.
"She ended the call screaming. My dad (now uncle) then came home and stumbled into my room asking what's wrong with mum.
"I told him everything too. He didn't say anything after calming down. He left the room and I locked the door," the teenager said.
His parents then got into a heated argument.
"I feel like s*** - I know it's not my fault but I can't help feeling that this is all because of me.
"If I had spent my birthday money on something else, none of this would have happened, but another part of me is glad to know the truth," he opined.
After sharing his story on Reddit, many users came up with ways he could try to salvage the relationships between his loved ones, while others offered him words of support.
One user said: "Call your dad, make it clear you still see him as your father - it could really help him out."
Another said: "The only person at fault is your mother and 'uncle'. She and him are the ones who cheated and lied. You don't need to feel guilty about exposing their guilt.
"Your real dad is the guy who raised you, not the guy whose genes are more similar."
A final commenter wrote: "Your dad would be devastated! Give him time, space and comfort him."
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