A millionaire businessman diagnosed with cystic fibrosis learnt on the same day that he could not have fathered the three sons he believed were his. Richard Mason, 55, an early investor in the price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com, was told by doctors that infertility was an effect of the incurable genetic disease. He had had the children — including a set of twins — with first wife, Kate, 54, whom he had divorced in 2008, paying her a £4m settlement. When doctors at Liverpool’s Broadgreen Hospital told him he could not be the boys’ biological father, Mason’s first thought was, “Shit, my life is ruined”, he told the Mail on Sunday. Mason, who has remarried, later had medical tests that confirmed he was incapable of producing…

Source: The Times January 06, 2019 00:11 UTC