Tony Danza is making a comeback with two spin-offs; he’ll reprise his role as Tony Micelli, and he’s joining the “And Just Like That…” cast.

But in the meantime, fans and critics have been discussing the actor’s epiphanies surrounding his real family.

Danza was brought to tears after learning about the struggles his maternal grandfather endured on his journey to become a U.S. citizen.

Danza opened up about the experience during Season Eight of the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.”

“You feel like somebody sacrificed for you…it has an effect on you and makes you feel some kind of crazy gratefulness,” he explained, while wiping away tears, to host Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Danza had always thought his grandfather, Antonino Camisa, came to America in 1917. However, the actor’s timeline was off. Camisa actually left Sicily with his brother in 1909 and arrived in Boston that same year.

Moving from Boston to Pennsylvania, Camisa worked as a tinner, a “dreadful” job, as Gates explained, that involved long hours in hot, noisy mills with noxious chemical fumes. On top of that, the pay was awful.

Within a few years, Camisa got married but lost two children to disease. He and his wife returned to Sicily around 1920 and experienced a bout of poverty. The couple then returned to America by 1929, this time with several children, including Danza’s mother, according to TODAY.

“It just takes an enormous amount of gumption,” the actor said while reflecting on his grandparents’ battling and overcoming adversity.

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