The Sad Ending for the “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” Star Actor Mike Evans “Lionel Jefferson”. But was he a good father?But after that, he [still] 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. Join Facebook to connect with Mike Evans and others you may know. Carlena ended up having to sleep in the same room her dad died in and says she ‘felt his spirit’ talk to her, asking her to save his his home, which was about to be foreclosed.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 [out] an ad that was in the National Enquirer, Wendy Williams did something [on my story] and it was just, it was a mess. View the profiles of people named Mike Evans. Damon Evans (born November 24, 1949) is an American actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as the second of two actors who portrayed Lionel Jefferson on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons. She said that’s when she realized that in death, her father not only needed her, but also finally accepted her, which she says then allowed her to fully forgive him.CH: No, not at all. It just so happened that a couple years after that, he died and the rest is history.Carlena Harris: My mother and my grandmother raised me 100%. 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?
Carlena did a recent interview The Charay Vaughn Show - where she aired out her father.And Mike's life took a turn for the worse in 2006 - when he died of cancer:Carlena Harris: My mother and my grandmother raised me 100%. 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?!! He was the star of two of television’s classic shows. No, never was a good father…and so at [age] 13 we actually concluded this foolishness and took a blood test and [the results] came out 99.9% [that he was my father]. He Died Broke in 2006. 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.Carlena on whether or not she and her father, Mike Evans, ever established any type of relationship prior to him passing away from cancer:CH: He died in December of ’06 and it’s interesting because he actually died of throat cancer. The pain she expressed is just another reminder that it’s never too late to right our wrongs.Carlena said things eventually started to change for her, after she said ‘God told her’ to go to L.A., where her sister, Tammy (who’s also Mike Evan’s daughter), was living in their Grandmother’s home. Who’s your brother? 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. He also portrayed the young Alex Haley (ages 17–25) in the ABC television miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.. Evans attended the Interlochen Academy on a Reader's Digest Scholarship.
He was a smoker [and he died] without a tongue in his mouth, broke and very miserable. But after that, he [still] 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.