Jackie Chan Angrily “Flung” His Son, 2, Throughout A Room
Earlier this week, motion film star Jackie Chan went viral when one in every of his followers shared a heartfelt tweet about his relationship together with his daughter.
They misguidedly posted a scene from Jackie’s newest film, Experience On, considering that it was actual life — and that actor Liu Haocun was his precise daughter as an alternative of simply onscreen.
“Jackie Chan and his daughter crying while watching some of his old movie scenes is the most wholesome thing you’ll watch today. Thanks for our childhood legend,” the Twitter consumer wrote on Monday.
Whereas the tweet rapidly racked up 10s of 1000’s of retweets — and a whole bunch of 1000’s of likes — others flocked to set the report straight. One particular person quote-tweeted and clarified: “What’s crazy about this clip is that this isn’t Jackie Chan’s daughter, she’s a hired actress.”
Alongside 4 photos of Jackie’s precise daughter Etta, they added: “Jackie Chan disowned his real daughter, Etta Ng Chok Lam, in 2017 for being a lesbian. She & her wife have been experiencing homelessness since. Jackie Chan is worth 400 million dollars.”
And whereas it’s true that Jackie is estranged from Etta, who has stated that she is experiencing homelessness in recent times, the claims right here additionally weren’t correct; Jackie truly disowned the now-24-year-old earlier than she was even born.
In 1999, Jackie revealed that Etta’s mother — former magnificence queen Elaine Ng Yi-lei — was pregnant after he cheated on his spouse, Joan Lin. He and Joan had been married since 1982, and share son Jaycee collectively.
In a press convention on the time, Jackie stated of the affair: “I’m not a saint. I’ve executed one thing mistaken. I’ve executed one thing that many males on this planet have executed. Possibly it was a second of playfulness.”
It was reported that Jackie reduce off contact with Elaine as quickly as he realized of her being pregnant, and by no means provided any monetary help in his daughter’s upbringing. In 2015, Etta confirmed to E! Information that Jackie has “never existed” in her life and she is going to “never regard him as a father.”
Then a yr after popping out as homosexual in 2017, Etta revealed that she and her girlfriend, Andi Autumn, had been “homeless” due to their “homophobic parents” in a now-deleted YouTube video.
“Hi, I’m Jackie Chan’s daughter, and this is my girlfriend. We’ve been homeless for a month due to homophobic parents,” she instructed viewers. “We pretty much slept under a bridge and other things.”
In November of the identical yr, Etta and Andi revealed that they’d acquired married, with Etta posting on Instagram on the time: “We have been pursuing happiness since the day we were born. Abused as children who never felt love, we have so much to give.”
This resurfaced story impressed some to look additional into Jackie’s private life, and plenty of have been left shocked by what has been unearthed.
In case you didn’t know, Jackie began his profession in Asia in the course of the Nineteen Sixties at simply 5 years outdated. Within the Eighties, he was welcomed into the American movie trade and rapidly turned famend for his martial arts abilities in addition to his comedic timing.
Now 69 years outdated, Jackie has an estimated web price of $400 million and has labored with dozens of huge names over time — together with Michelle Yeoh, who referred to as him a “chauvinistic pig” in a 1997 interview with David Letterman.
Within the awkward change, David requested Michelle if Jackie was the rationale why she determined to change into an motion film star. She replied: “No, actually he’s a male chauvinistic pig.”
Because the dwell studio viewers gasped in response, she rapidly added: “Jackie and I are very good friends – I say this to his face. He always believes that women should stay at home and cook and don’t do anything and be the victim. Except for Michelle, now he says – because I would kick his butt.”
And this tallies with what Jackie has stated about himself over time. The truth is, in his memoir By no means Develop Up, Jackie admitted that he was “a nasty jerk.”
Within the e-book, which was first revealed in Chinese language in 2015 and translated to English three years later, he confesses to visiting intercourse staff and crassly flashing his cash after capturing to fame.
“I drunk drove all the time. In the morning, I’d crash my Porsche, then in the evening, I’d total a Mercedes-Benz. All day long, I went around in a haze,” he says.
Jackie provides that when the paparazzi tried to take pictures of the crashed vehicles he’d threaten to punch them “once for every shot they took of me.” He writes: “I really was quite a nasty jerk.”
However arguably probably the most surprising revelation in Jackie’s memoir is his recollection of angrily throwing his son Jaycee throughout the room when he was two years outdated — leaving Joan “terrified.”
“When he was two years old, I threw him,” Jackie admits. “I picked him up with one hand and flung him across the room, and he crashed into the sofa. With the amount of force I used, if he’d hit the back or armrests, it could have been quite serious.”
Jackie clarifies that he “immediately” regretted what he did and swore to by no means throw him once more, including: “I take my promises seriously, and I’m a man of my word. I never threw him again or hit him.”
After the incident, Jaycee was apparently alert every time his dad wasn’t in an excellent temper, with Jackie writing: “He still gets frightened whenever he hears me give him an order.”
Elsewhere, the actor admits: “I’ve not been a good father or a good husband but I did my duty to my son and his mother.”
Jackie’s relationship together with his son publicly soured in August 2014, when Jaycee was arrested and jailed for the possession and distribution of marijuana, and for accommodating drug customers at his residence in China. He served six months in a state jail.
Jackie issued a press release saying that he was “extremely furious” together with his son’s habits on the time, and issued a public apology as China’s anti-drug goodwill ambassador.
Jackie has additionally maintained that Jaycee is not going to be inheriting any of his wealth after his dying. In 2011, he stated: “If he’s succesful, he could make his personal cash. If he isn’t, then he’ll simply be losing my cash.”
