In 2011, Taraji P. Henson took on the role of the inspiring titular character in the Lifetime movie "Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story." According to Redbook magazine, the movie is based on the life of the actual Tiffany Rubin, whose harrowing kidnapping story has all the makings of a Lifetime movie. No parent ever wants to hear the news that their child has gone missing, but that's exactly what happened to Rubin.
In this chilling drama, she discovers that during a visit to his father's home in Brooklyn, her seven-year-old son Kobe Lee was abducted. In fact, her ex-boyfriend took their child and fled the country (via Lifetime.) Perhaps the craziest thing about the story is that Rubin may have never found out where her son was if it hadn't been for the wonders of social media.
As NBC News notes, while the smart schoolteacher was able to hack into her ex's email account and find out he was headed to South Korea, it was an anonymous MySpace tip that alerted Rubin to the exact school her son was attending there.
