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Jackie Chanis making some shocking revelations about his personal life.
The book was first published in Chinese in 2015 and has not been translated into English until now.
Chan has a 36-year-old son — Jaycee — with Lin, and a 19-year-old daughter —Etta Ng— from his affair with beauty queen Elaine Ng Yi Lei.
“I wanted to phone Joan but I didn’t know what to say,” he continued. “I wouldn’t be able to explain this.”
Jackie Chan and his son Jaycee Chan.VCG/Getty
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While Chan doesn’t discuss his relationship to Etta in the book, theRush Hourstar does make mention of an instance in which he hit his son “once.”
“When [my son Jaycee] was still young,I hit him once, and was very heavy-handed— directly lifting him and throwing him onto the sofa,” Chan wrote, according to an excerpt fromVariety. “That time I really scared him and his mother to death, and I myself was very regretful.”
Etta,who remains estranged from Chan,married her girlfriend Andi Autumnlast week. In April, she claimed she’d been sleeping under a bridge with her partner “due to homophobic parents.” Etta, 18, and her girlfriend (now wife) Andi Autumnposted a short videoto YouTube at the time, claiming that they’ve run out of options because their friends and family have refused to offer them support.
Speaking to the websiteCoconuts, Elainedenounced her daughter’s claims, saying she needs to find a job.
In 2015, Ettareportedly told theExpressabout Chan, “He never existed in my life. I will never regard him as a father.”
“I would not say that he is my dad,” Etta continued. “I would say, ‘Oh, Jackie Chan, an actor.’”
Never Grow Uphits shelves on Tuesday.
source: people.com
