Jimmy Barnes reveals relationship with long-lost adult daughter: ‘Katy is a wonderful woman’

The singer said his daughter came into his life five years ago, and said she wanted to keep her family life private

Jimmy Barnes has publicly acknowledged the existence of an eighth child, his adult daughter Katy Lee Carroll, for the first time.

Christmas is all about family," the singer wrote in a statement on Instagram on Monday night, and we would like to introduce my daughter Katy Lee, who has been in our lives for the past five years. Katy is a wonderful woman and since discovering that I was her biological father, our family and extended family have loved getting to know her."

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