Heartbreaking Decisions: Stars Who Gave their Children Up for Adoption

Dirk Benedict

One of the stars in “Battlestar Galactica,” Dirk Benedict only found out that he had a son when John Talbert was 30-years-old. It turned out that Benedict’s girlfriend in 1968 got pregnant and had the child without even bothering to tell him. Benedict was understandably surprised when he finally found out about his child in 1998.