It just so happened that a couple years after that, he died and the rest is history. that point I decided ‘You know what? I’m not going to the media’…and eventually I decided I just had to suck it up, ‘this man doesn’t want me,’ you know? It was pathetic but I had to come to the conclusion that I can’t make a person acknowledge, accept, or want me. So I mean it was a long story, he ended up calling me back because that was like pretty tragic and I was just like ‘Who’s my father?’ I’m calling my Momma, I’m calling my Grandmomma like ‘What’s going on?’ And they both told me “You know who your dad is, he knows who he is too, whatever.” I even put an ad that was in the National Enquirer, Wendy Williams did something and it was just, it was a mess.
The last time that I talked to him literally I was 21 years old and at that time is when…his last couple words in that conversation to me was that he didn’t know if he was even my father and I said ‘uh I have blood tests that say you are my father’ and he said “Well I don’t know, maybe you should consider my brother.” I said ‘WHAT?!! Who’s your brother? Nobody even knows who your brother is.’ This is clearly some stuff that took place with him and my Momma that I know nothing about…um, I’m clearly innocent and at that time I’m just like ‘I just don’t understand, I just don’t.’ On what it was like for her when her dad, Mike Evans, passed away…ĬH: No, not at all. I guess…I could have a human father, but a human father can only do but so much, but when the God of the universe is your daddy, it certainly makes a difference and I’m walking in that now.
But after that, he just chose for whatever reason, to continue being separate and I just had to live with the fact that I didn’t have an…earthly father who wanted me, but the thing with that is it certainly caused me to be closer to my heavenly father and got me to a point where I was content. At that point, he couldn’t say I wasn’t his anymore. But was he a good father? No, never was a good father…and so at 13 we actually concluded this foolishness and took a blood test and came out 99.9%. My father he was just…he was alive, but he definitely wasn’t involved and at times he would even say he didn’t know who my father was, so…he wasn’t even always claiming me, but at times he would, you know. The Jeffersons” (L-R): Mike Evans (“Lionel Jefferson”), Norman Lear (producer), Sherman Hemsley (“George Jefferson”), Isabelle Sanford (“Weezy Jefferson”) via Getty Images Evans’ Daughter On His Rejection Of HerĬarlena Harris: My mother and my grandmother raised me 100%. The pain she expressed is just another reminder that it’s never too late to right our wrongs. Carlena explains what they went through in an interview she did with The Charay Vaughn Show. We came to know him as the character, “Lionel,” from “The Jeffersons” and it was he and his friend, Eric Monte’s, creative genius that gave us their sitcom creation, “Good Times.” But while we were getting to know Mike Evans, the actor, his daughter, Carlena Harris, was apparently getting to know him as her dad, whom she says neglected her all of her life.
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He was a noted Speech Pathologist in private practice for many years.We all love Mike Evans and the diversity he added to prime time TV back in the day. He served on the Board of Directors, and he won several awards.
He enjoyed himself no matter what he did in the theatre. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, the mean-spirited Bumble in Oliver, and the intense and troubled Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman. During the 40 years he worked with Grosse Pointe Theatre, Mike appeared in over 50 roles, from his first show A Funny Thing on the Way to The Forum, the hilarious Alfred P. A member of Aftra, Sag and Actor's Equity Association, Mike appeared at Michigan Opera Theatre, the Attic Theatre, Actors' Renaissance, Goodman Theatre in Chicago and Seaside Playhouse in Oregon. His television credits include Walker Texas Ranger, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, and The People's Choice Awards. Among his films were Gran Torino, Home Run Showdown, High School, Judicial Consent, and One Day in Dallas. Many in the area will remember Mike as the cherubic-faced pharmacist in commercials for Arbor Drugs as well as in hundreds of other commercials, industrial films and regular theatrical films. "Mike" Passed was born in Oxford, Michigan to Reland (Mimi) Schreel Evans and Roland Samuel Evans, Sr.
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