As far as every fan of Jackie Chan is concerned, the popular action star is a family man. With over 130 movies tucked in his belt, Jackie Chan was also honored last year with a lifetime achievement award but it seems there is a skeleton in the actor’s closet. In fact, it seems that the actor’s career hides more than he would like his fans to know.
The biggest truth that Chan never really tried to hide was his illicit affair with Chinese beauty queen Elaine Ng in 1998. The couple even had daughter together named Etta Ng Chok Lam in 199. But rather than grow up as a celebrity daughter, Etta is turning out to be a thorn in Chan’s side. The girl, all of 19 claims Chan has left her homeless. That’s right! Jackie Chan’s daughter is homeless.
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At the time of his affair, Chan was married to Joan Lin an actress from Taiwan. In fact, he had been married to her for 18 years which meant by having an affair he was risking his career and reputation as an icon of cinema and a family actor.
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Instead of hushing up his affair with money as actors are prone to do, Chan chose to go with the flow and accept whatever fate had in store for him. When Elain was pregnant in 1999, there was huge speculation that Chan was indeed the father but it took Chan almost four years to acknowledge the child. Chan admitted in an interview during the time he was shooting for “Around The World In Eighty Days” that he had “failed his daughter”
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Jackie Chan hinted that the reason for being estranged from Etta was her mother. He said “since her mother is that kind of a person, I don’t know how to treat [my daughter]” Incidentally Elaine is 19 years junior to Chan.
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Jackie’s wife Joan stood by him throughout the scandal dismissing his indiscretions by stating that many men in the world have done the same thing as Chan and it was no reason to leave him. In her own words ““only committed a fault that many men in the world commit.”
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It seemed Chan isn’t lucky enough to have stability in his life because he hasn’t found it easy-going with his son Jaycee Chan either. Jaycee was arrested on a few occasions for drug offenses. Etta is now all of 19 and is speaking out a lot against Chan for not owning up to his responsibilities. Chan seems to have been caught on the wrong foot assuming she would keep away from the media glare because of his image. She has done the exactly opposite.
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Till now Etta has had a topsy-turvy life and even made headlines last year for reporting her mother to the cops in a case of domestic abuse. She has also proved self-destructive with an attempt on her own life because of tension in coping with her own partner preferences. It so turns out that Etta is gay which she revealed in one of her Instagram posts that said: “In case no one got the memo, I’m gay.”
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Etta’s public revelation of being gay naturally brought reporters flocking to Chan for a statement. Chan 64 simply brushed off the issue saying “if she likes it that’s fine” But that was hardly the start of Chan’s troubles with Etta which seems to have just begun.
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Etta has now uploaded a video to YouTube blasting her parents for being “Homophobic “ and revealing that they have left her homeless. She revealed that in spite of seeking help from hospitals, doctors and even the LGBT community but none wants to help. She has also slept under a bridge one night.
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In her post-Etta said “We’ve been homeless for a month due to homophobic parents. We pretty much slept under a bridge, and other things,” the video also features her Canadian girlfriend Andi Autumn who is an Instagram influencer Andi says “I’ve asked all my friends and family for help. Everyone just keeps sending us to the direction of shelters, where they know we will be split up.”
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Etta says “I don’t even understand. We’ve gone to the police, we’ve gone to the hospital, the food banks, LGBTQ community shelters and all of them just don’t give a s**t. She says that when two people share true love and are not trying to split apart but her family is trying their best to cause them trouble. Etta also reveals that she truly loves Andi Etta also introduces herself as Jackie Chan’s daughter in their video but she also says she will never regard him as her father.
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In 2015, Etta said "He is my biological father but he is not in my life. He never existed in my life. I will never regard him as a father.” She also said that she wasn’t angry with him but still done not wish to ever see him because as long as she had her mother with her, she doesn’t need her father.
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However, It is possible that Etta may be saying such things in spite because her relationship with her mother isn’t an ideal one which proves she is also in need of a father figure but it is all up to Chan whether he will own up to his responsibilities or move away. Watch the video where she asks for help.