"A woman handed me a letter": Jimmy Barnes reveals the unlikely way his long-lost daughter found him
Anh Do has revealed the unlikely way Jimmy Barnes’ discovered he was the father of two of his long-lost children.
While appearing on Anh’s Brush With Fame, the 62-year-old music icon confessed that a love child “approached him after a concert asking for a paternity test”.
In an interview with Who magazine, Anh reflected on the memorable moments on his show, saying: “I remember Jimmy Barnes telling me that after a show a woman handed him a letter.”
“He read it that night and it said that she thinks she may be his daughter from 30 years ago. And there's a photo.
“And Barnsey looks at the photo, and thinks to himself, 'Yep, I had better take a paternity test!' And it turns out it's his daughter.”
The revelation made to Anh while he painted the star, follows Jimmy’s previous confession that he fathered two love children.
The two daughters, Amanda Bennett and Megan Torzyn first tracked down their father in 2010.
The girls, who are both now in their 40s, later found out that one of them unknowingly attended the same school as their half-brother, Jimmy’s son David Campbell.
Jimmy already had five children before reuniting with his two long-lost daughters.
The star shares four children with his wife Jane and also has a son, Today Extra host David Campbell, from a teenage fling.
“My kids are all so great that when I found out there were a couple more, I felt they would be good people - and they're lovely girls,” Jimmy previously told New Idea.
“My only regret is not knowing them when they were younger, but life is what it is and all things happen for a reason.
“At the time it was probably better for them that they didn't know me, because I was pretty wild.”