Yaya DaCosta dug deep for her starring role in Lifetime’s next “Ripped From the Headlines” project Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story. Premiering April 12, the movie chronicles Smith’s incredible decades-long journey of her true identity upon discovering the relatives she knew weren’t actually blood at all. She endured a horrific childhood in Baltimore filled with fear and abuse from who she thought was her mother and others including two late uncles. When Smith discovered she didn’t have proper documentation like a birth certificate or social security card, it sent her down a rabbit hole that led to shocking revelations. She left no stone unturned, submitting her DNA for biological matches in a search for answers. Those came at age 55 as analysis showed her biological mother had died years before, lived in New York and also had six sisters. Smith was actually also born Simboli Ruffin.