Prue Leith’s documentary Journey With My Daughter has left viewers in tears.
The Great British Bake Off host has been helping her adopted daughter Li-Da in her search for her birth parents in Cambodia.
While the pair have been together for 45 years, they were both hoping to discover more about Li-Da’s journey before Prue adopted her as a baby.
In the documentary, Li-Da discovered her birth mother might still be alive, after believing she was dead for most of her life, and found the first blood relatives she has ever spoken to, including a cousin who now lives in the USA.
The whole episode left all of us emotional, with one viewer writing: ‘I’m actually weeping #PruesJourney.’
‘OK. Blubbing has commenced,’ another added, while one more said: ‘Haven’t stopped crying. Hope Li-Da finds her blood family.’
Li-Da, now in her mid 40s, had been from Phnom Penh in Cambodia, but left following her adoption before the Khmer Rouge carried out the Cambodian genocide, where nearly a quarter of the country’s population were killed between 1975 and 1979.
Prue admits that while she ‘desperately hoped’ Li-Da would be reconnected with birth mother, she was worried about seeing much less of her daughter.
In the episode, she described herself as ‘selfish’ for not being more open previously about her daughter’s life before her adoption.
‘I think I’m quite tactless,’ Prue admitted. ‘I hardly ever go delving into psychological this and that.
‘So I’m probably not the right mother to talk to her enough, I think I never have talked to her enough. Maybe it’s a kind of selfishness on my part. I’m very busy and so I assume everything looks right and must be right.
‘I don’t go scratching the surface looking for problems. I think there’s probably stuff about her Cambodian background that I’ve never asked her. And maybe I could have done that more.’
Prue Leith: Journey with my daughter is available on All 4.
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