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50 Cent: "I'm adopted"

Heavyweight rapper 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, opens up about his family life in a new documentary. 

The programme, entitled '50 Cent: The Origin Of Me', shows the star trace his history and he reveals to a crowd of students in South Carolina, which is where his grandparents lived, that he was actually adopted.

"It feels good for me to learn more about my actual history."

"A lot of people don't know but I'm adopted. Yeah, my grandmother adopted me after my mother passed away. So she's like my legal guardian. My grandparents were from out here so the last time I was out here I was like six years old."

The full show will air on Monday, May 23 in the U.S with no date set for a UK broadcast as of yet, but you can watch a preview of it here: