Donor 106
Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min · 17 segments
One night when Eve Wiley was 16, she started reading through her mother’s emails, and discovered a secret her mother had been keeping from Eve her whole life. “I always knew there was something. I…
Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min · 17 segments
One night when Eve Wiley was 16, she started reading through her mother’s emails, and discovered a secret her mother had been keeping from Eve her whole life. “I always knew there was something. I…
Eve WileyGuest
Phoebe JudgeHost
Dov FoxGuest
Eve Liley says that after she realized her parents' fertility doctor was her biological father, she got off the phone with the man she had thought was her half-brother, closed her laptop, and drank a glass of wine.
Honestly, what in the Jerry Springer hell is going on? That was my initial thought.
And just like when I was 16 years old, I run upstairs, and my mom is watching a movie with my in-laws, and I, like, go up next to her, and I was like, "Mom, Mom, Steve's not my dad." She's like, "What?" And I get up, and I throw on the lights, and I have everybody's attention, and I'm just kind of pacing, and I'm like, "Mom, Steve is not my dad.
You look just like him." And then I had to go and, and, and tell her, and I had to pull the computer out, and, and I've never seen someone go into shock before.
But she was just asking the same question over and over again, and, "How, how, how could he do this? How could he do this? And this can't be true.
So that night, I, I emailed one of my attorneys and asked for them to give me a call the next day.
Eve says that when her attorney called the next day, she learned that there wasn't anything she could do, because what Dr. Kim McMorries had done wasn't actually illegal.
[music] Even though Eve's mother thought she was using donor 106's sperm, there was nothing on the books that said her doctor had to.
And so for something that just felt so wrong, I couldn't wrap my head around it, and I was furious.
And so I mailed him snail mail, certified mail, just saying, "Hi, my name is Eve.
Um, I, you know, my son has been sick, and I just, I, we really need medical information." And so he responded.
He responded and was like, you know, "Hi, you know, it, it seems like you may have inherited some of my genetics." And then at the end of it, um, he was like, "It was a pleasure to deliver your parents a healthy baby girl."
Dr. Kim McMorries explained that he had mixed his sperm with donor 106's sperm to improve her mother's chances of conception.
Eve Liley says that after she realized her parents' fertility doctor was her biological father, she got off the phone with the man she had thought was her half-brother, closed her laptop, and drank a glass of wine.
Honestly, what in the Jerry Springer hell is going on? That was my initial thought.
And just like when I was 16 years old, I run upstairs, and my mom is watching a movie with my in-laws, and I, like, go up next to her, and I was like, "Mom, Mom, Steve's not my dad." She's like, "What?" And I get up, and I throw on the lights, and I have everybody's attention, and I'm just kind of pacing, and I'm like, "Mom, Steve is not my dad.
You look just like him." And then I had to go and, and, and tell her, and I had to pull the computer out, and, and I've never seen someone go into shock before.
But she was just asking the same question over and over again, and, "How, how, how could he do this? How could he do this? And this can't be true.
So that night, I, I emailed one of my attorneys and asked for them to give me a call the next day.
Eve says that when her attorney called the next day, she learned that there wasn't anything she could do, because what Dr. Kim McMorries had done wasn't actually illegal.
[music] Even though Eve's mother thought she was using donor 106's sperm, there was nothing on the books that said her doctor had to.
And so for something that just felt so wrong, I couldn't wrap my head around it, and I was furious.
And so I mailed him snail mail, certified mail, just saying, "Hi, my name is Eve.
Um, I, you know, my son has been sick, and I just, I, we really need medical information." And so he responded.
He responded and was like, you know, "Hi, you know, it, it seems like you may have inherited some of my genetics." And then at the end of it, um, he was like, "It was a pleasure to deliver your parents a healthy baby girl."
Dr. Kim McMorries explained that he had mixed his sperm with donor 106's sperm to improve her mother's chances of conception.
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