This Is Us ended three years in the past, however one of many present's main males, Sterling Ok. Brown, continues to be warming hearts.

Kelly Clarkson requested Brown, who performed Randall Pearson on the NBC drama, about having modified his identify as a teen on Monday's episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.

"I glided by my center identify, I glided by 'Kelby' till I used to be 16 years outdated," he answered. "My dad's Sterling Brown Jr. My grandfather Sterling Brown Sr. I’m Sterling Kelby Brown."

Brown stated he merely wished his personal identification.

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"I wished my very own identify, and it felt like Sterling was like an outdated man's identify," the Paradise star advised Clarkson. "However as a result of he handed away after I was 10, by the point I turned 16 and I hadn't heard his identify for five-and-a-half years, I used to be like, I type of simply wish to hear that identify once more, so I requested folks to name me Sterling."

Each Brown and Clarkson had been visibly emotional, along with her saying, "That was so candy and delightful."

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Brown advised EW final month that, of all of the episodes in his heartwarming — and heartbreaking — household present, there's one that individuals most wish to speak to him about.

"'Memphis,' which is episode 116, when William (Ron Cephas Jones) passes away," stated Brown, whose Randall has all the time recognized he’s adopted, however discovers over the course of the collection that William is his organic father. "That one hits exhausting proper, within the feels."

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Brown famous that he and his former costars Mandy Moore (Rebecca) and Chris Sullivan (Toby) had been about to debate of their rewatch podcast the episode by which household patriarch Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) dies a tragic loss of life.

"Totally different episodes hit totally different folks in several methods," Brown stated. "And you’ve got folks come as much as you on a regular basis, and actually what I get requested for greater than the rest from This Is Us folks, particularly, 'Can I’ve a hug?' And it's probably the most beautiful factor. I believe that was the present of the present: We felt related, particularly in a world that feels so divisive and a rustic that feels extremely divided proper now, that we had a present that allowed folks to attach."

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