When he found his biological mother, he explains that the experience “started to shed light and destroy my mythos.” “For the first year of knowing her, my [birth] mom… visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life – where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant." "It was amazing… and very emotional.” He concluded by saying, “It’s a long, very personal story, but, you know, it’s been a really wonderful, revelatory story.” When was Keegan-Michael Key adopted? He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key and Patricia Walsh, who were both social workers.