LONG Lost Family viewers were left in tears when a nurse desperate to find her secret brother discovered he lived just three miles away from her.
Donna Cowell grew up in care with her brother Damien when their mum became homeless.
The pair suffered “horrendous abuse” as they moved between ten foster homes before being adopted.
As an adult, Donna found out they had another sibling they knew nothing about – and she feared he’d suffered the same cruel upbringing.
She said on Long Lost Family: “I’m hoping he was ok. I don’t want him to have suffered what we suffered.
“I was really shocked and upset. That was my baby brother and was perhaps in the same situation as I was being brought up in care. It’s sad.
“From that moment I thought I need to find him. Me and Damien have always had each other.
“I would hate to think I have a brother out there who isn’t loved. He could have been with us.”
The trainee nurse was then told that her younger brother Phillip lived within three miles of her in Blackpool.
After finding out he was adopted at six weeks’ old, Donna burst into tears.
They met off camera in a cafe for a teary reunion.
One viewer said: “This was great tonight lots of tears again tonight.”
Someone else added: “Streaming tears here #longlostfamily family is everything.”
Another said: “Long lost family will forever have me in floods of tears.”
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