Learning you have a shared ancestor ranks high among the few unexpected events that might occur during a marriage.
That is precisely what occurred when 66-year-old Kevin Bacon and 58-year-old Kyra Sedgwick learned they are truly cousins.
Upon deciding to research his family genealogy, the Footloose star had an uncomfortable moment, which was captured on television.
They fell madly in love after collaborating on the 1988 film Lemon Sky. After being married that year, Bacon and Sedgwick had two children together.
But Sedgwick found out that Bacon was really a distant cousin of hers on an episode of Finding Your Roots that aired in 2013.
