Clint Eastwood finally acknowledges his unknown child after years of gossip

Clint Eastwood is an American icon and a generation-defining talent. As such, one would expect that the world knows all there is to know about this hero of Hollywood.

Given that Clint’s been in the spotlight since the mid-’50s, there’s been no end of rumours and speculation surrounding his private life. Stories, television interviews, gossip … blah, blah. You name it, and it’s probably been said of Eastwood.

Which is probably why such a stir was caused when Clint appeared at the premiere of his 2018 movie The Mule. The then-88-year-old star was snapped with all of his children, which under normal circumstances wouldn’t be much to write home about.

Only, on this occasion there was something different, something more, that caught the eye of onlookers. In the images that soon surfaced on Instagram, Clint was pictured with his usual brood of seven children, as well as an extra!

But who was this eighth child? And how did Clint Eastwood keep her secret for so long? Needless to say, the rumour-mill went into overdrive.

To say that Clint Eastwood has been successful in his career is perhaps the understatement of the century. Born in San Fransisco on May 31, 1930, Eastwood was nicknamed “Samson” by the hospital nurses due to the fact he weighed a whopping 11 pounds 6 ounces at birth.

By all accounts, Clint had a rather unremarkable childhood. He was held back at year at Piedmont Middle School for poor academic scores. Indeed, the remainder of his school life was certainly nothing to boast about, with one high school friend, Don Loomis, having stated:

“I don’t think he was spending that much time at school because he was having a pretty good time elsewhere.”

As a young man, Clint held down a number of jobs, switching from lifeguard to paper carrier to grocery clerk to forest firefighter and golf caddy.

Records state that he was drafted in the United States Army during the Korean War, but accounts from people close to him relay that he spent the entirety of his service as a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California.

And yet it was at Ford Ord where Eastwood was first spotted with regards to the career where in he would eventually rise to be a superstar. The Universal-International film company was shooting in Fort Ord when an assistant is said to have spotted Eastwood and asked him to meet the director of Rawhide.