[post_page_title]Struggling to believe it at first[/post_page_title]
Joel also spoke about the process through which he discovered the only dad they’d ever known wasn’t their real father. When Richard was first diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, he said, he asked them to do blood tests.
While eldest son Willem refused, he and Ed agreed, despite Joel believing it was just a play on Richard’s part to try and get money out of his mother. But then the results came in. The siblings didn’t believe the DNA tests at first, because Richard refused to do them in front of them.
