Best-selling author Denene Millner used her novel "One Blood" to learn about her adoptive mother and explore her own motherhood..
Author Denene Millner on Her Writing Career: 'I've Always Been the Nosy One' (Exclusive)
Denene Millner recalls the moment she sat with Taraji P.
Henson as they cried together.
“She was talking about the death of the father of her son and how…he would make rubber band balls for her son,” Millner tells PEOPLE.
American author and journalist Denene Millner was born on October 21, 1968.
“And she was a hot mess, obviously, at his funeral because this is the father of her child...when she thought that she couldn't bear being in that room anymore, she looked down and there was a rubber band on the floor.”
At the time, Millner was the co-writer for the Hidden Figuresstar’s 2016 memoir Around The Way Girl.
The rubber band led the two to talk about other meaningful topics like spirituality, ancestors and communication outside the physical realm.
“She was crying and I was crying because she was so emotional,” Millner says. “And it was a moment that I could feel as a human...one human being who knows how to love another human being who knows how t