- Former Miss Nevada Elizabeth Hunterton was found about 10 days old by two pilots in January 1980.
- Since 2020, she and her birth mother have been exchanging texts and emails, she says.
- Through reconnecting with her biological family, she also learned the truth of what happened when she was left at the airport as a baby.
A former Miss Nevada who was abandoned as a baby at an airport and then connected with her birth mom in 2020 will finally meet her in person this week, she says.
“I spoke to my birth mother for the first time on Jan. 1 of this year,” Elizabeth Hunterton tells PEOPLE exclusively. “It did take us quite some time to even be comfortable with that.”
Hunterton, 44, initially spoke with PEOPLE in 2021 only months after she first connected with her biological mother — decades since she was found about 10 days old by two pilots at a Nevada airport in January…
