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Mind Blown: Gabrielle Union Shares That She's Cousins With This Female Rapper, And Twitter Is Living

The actress perfectly outlined just how they're related.

Gabrielle Union recently dropped a bomb on social media that took a slew of her followers by surprise, and it appears as several of them are still recovering from her revelation.

The A-list actress recently shared in an Instagram post that she and rapper Saweetie are actually cousins.

  • (Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

    Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic

    (Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

    The Being Mary Jane star casually dropped the family tidbit during a sweet caption detailing why singer Kehlani was her #WomanCrushWednesday.

    In it, she mentioned that the "Distraction" crooner has collaborated with her famous femcee cousin. Take a look, below:

  • After seeing the post, fans swarmed Union's Twitter account, asking her to expound on their family connection, and she obliged, saying that she and the rapper's father are first cousins.

    She even went a bit further to reveal that she based her iconic character in Deliver Us From Eva on Saweetie's grandmother.

  • See Twitter's mind-blown reaction to the news, below:

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