Lifetime Hosts Exclusive Premiere of Robin Roberts Presents: Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story

Judith Davis
2 min readJan 19, 2020
Robin Roberts attends the Lifetime special screening: Robin Roberts Presents “Stolen By My Mother, The Kamiyah Mobley Story”on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Lifetime)

On Monday, January 14, 2020, Lifetime TV hosted an exclusive premiere event and screening for Robin Roberts Presents: Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, Lifetime’s first movie produced in partnership with award-winning journalist Robin Roberts. The film tells the true story of a young woman who discovers at age 18, she was abducted as a baby and the family she knew to be hers, wasn’t hers at all.

(L-R) Jeffrey Byrd, Ta’Rhonda Jones, Robin Roberts, Rayven Ferrell, Niecy Nash, Linda Berman, Tanya Lopez and Rob Sharenow attend the Lifetime special screening: Robin Roberts Presents “Stolen By My Mother, The Kamiyah Mobley Story”on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Lifetime)

Notable attendees and red-carpet participants included Diane Sawyer, Larry Birkhead of Lifetime’s docuseries Hopelessly In Love and former partner of the American Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, and the cast, executive producer and director of the Lifetime film, as well as members of Lifetime and A+E executive team: Robin Roberts (Executive Producer), Niecy Nash (Gloria Williams), Ta’Rhonda Jones (Shanara Mobley) and Rayven Ferrell (Kamiyah Mobley), Jeffrey Byrd (Director), Rob Sharenow (President of Programming, A+E Networks) and Tanya Lopez (EVP of Lifetime Programming A+E Networks).

Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts attend the Lifetime special screening: Robin Roberts Presents “Stolen By My Mother, The Kamiyah Mobley Story”on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Lifetime)

Following the screening, members of the cast participated in a Q&A moderated by Robin Roberts. The cast recounted how they prepared for their respective role and discussed the incredible true story the film is based upon. Immediately after the Q&A, guests mixed and mingled during the reception.

(L-R) Robin Roberts, Niecy Nash, Rayven Ferrell, Ta’Rhonda Jones and Jeffrey Byrd speak onstage during the Lifetime special screening: Robin Roberts Presents “Stolen By My Mother, The Kamiyah Mobley Story”on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Lifetime)

Robin Roberts Presents: Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story premiered on Lifetime on Saturday, January 18th at 8 PM ET/PT. Following the movie, the one hour special Beyond the Headlines: The Kamiyah Mobley Story with Robin Roberts will air at 10 PM ET/PT. To preview the film, please visit the Lifetime TV website.

Larry Birkhead attends the Lifetime special screening: Robin Roberts Presents “Stolen By My Mother, The Kamiyah Mobley Story”on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Lifetime

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Judith Davis

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