Jackie Chan’s Family History

The famous movie star Jackie Chan has starred in more than 70 films and is extremely influential at home and abroad. He has almost become the representative of Chinese Kung Fu. However, few people know that Jackie Chan's childhood was full of hardships. His mother used to sell drugs. Due to poverty, Jackie Chan was almost sold. When he was a child, he sold white powder to the underworld. After decades of marriage, he still refused to trust the women around him. The documentary "Footprints of the Dragon - Jackie Chan and His Lost Family" is about to be released. Recently, Jackie Chan appeared on the "Interviews with Yang Lan" program and disclosed the life experience of his parents in detail for the first time.

My mother once transported opium

Over the years, Jackie Chan has always believed that he is the only son of his parents, with the surname Chen. Suddenly one day, his father told him his story.

Jackie Chan's parents were very poor, and the war caused them to lose their wives and husbands. The acquaintance of his parents was very dramatic: his mother had smuggled opium in the past, while his father worked as a policeman at the customs. Once, my mother was arrested at the customs. Her father, who was a policeman, saw that she was carrying a child on her back and dragging another child in her hand. The basket contained opium. He felt soft and let her pass. After walking past, the mother turned around and said: His father shed tears, and the two met and fell in love. These two miserable people, who each lost their husbands and wives in the war, finally came together and gave birth to Jackie Chan. At that time, my mother had two girls and my father had two boys. These were Jackie Chan's sister and brother. His father said that Jackie Chan's real name should be Fang Shilong, and his name is still written on the family tree. His father changed his surname to Chen because he did not want others to know his surname was Fang when he was begging for food.

Almost went astray

Jackie Chan was born in a poor family. When he was born, his father had no money to pay the doctor for the delivery and considered selling him for a time. Later, a friend paid for the delivery, and then Jackie Chan was left. In order to repay this debt, his father lived frugally and lived for two years.

In order to make a living, his parents had to leave 6-year-old Jackie Chan behind to work in Australia. Jackie Chan grew up in an educational environment that was so strict that it was almost cruel in an opera school, and he never had the so-called family warmth. Jackie Chan said that when he was 6 and a half years old, his parents went to Australia to make a living. My mother started working as a laundry cleaner at the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, and won the praise and trust of the consulate staff. Therefore, when the Consul General moved to Australia, he asked Jackie Chan's mother to accompany him and continue working at the US Embassy in Canberra. Since then, Jackie Chan's mother has been living in Canberra with her father, Chen Zhiping.

At an age when he needs his parents, Jackie Chan only has "brothers" around him. He had no family to take care of him when he was young, and he soon fell into the bad habits of the underworld: fighting, selling white powder, racing cars, watching others take drugs, grabbing things and dividing the spoils, and he almost went down a wrong path. During this period of depression, it was his father's words that made a major change in his life trajectory: "When I was 16 years old, my father said to me at the airport, 'You are old and I can't control you, but there are three things. You can't do it, you have to promise me. First, you can't join the gang; second, you can't take drugs; third, you can't gamble on Pai Gow. 'Those three things are what I have been doing all day long, but I promised my dad a lot. Years later, when Jackie Chan learned that one of the two buddies he had been wandering around with had died on the streets and the other had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand, he said with emotion: "At that time, I listened to my father and did the right thing."

I had always been wary of my wife

In 1999, when Wu Qili admitted to the media that she was pregnant with "Little Dragon Girl", Jackie Chan fell into the embarrassing situation of being chased and beaten by the media. He has always been good. His public image has also been affected. Jackie Chan often used personal experience to warn his son Jaycee Chan, who is developing in the entertainment industry, "Choose a good one and be careful. This is a very important lesson."

In 1999, Hong Kong TVB artist Ng Qili admitted to the media that she She is pregnant with Jackie Chan's child, causing a sensation throughout Hong Kong. After the "Little Dragon Girl" incident, Jackie Chan's wife and former Taiwan Golden Horse Award-winning actress Lin Fengjiao once again became the focus of attention. Jackie Chan frankly admitted that after the incident was exposed, his first reaction was to divorce. "Because I was wrong, I had no face to face her. The only step down for me was divorce and let me be a sinner." Later, Jackie Chan was able to survive that crisis largely because of Lin Fengjiao's role in him. Support behind you.

However, this woman who gave up her career for marriage and devoted more than 20 years to Jackie Chan, actually never gained the true trust of her husband until the "Little Dragon Girl Incident" happened.

Jackie Chan admitted that he has always been deeply wary of Lin Fengjiao, "I have never given her a penny, I only give her some household expenses every month, and I keep all the other money myself." ". Behind this wariness is Jackie Chan's long-standing distrust of women. "Many of my good brothers ended up like that. All their money was taken away by their wives. When they came back, they found that even the sofas had been moved away and the house was empty..." I thought that my cheating would give Lin Fengjiao a divorce. It was an excuse to divide the family property, but she didn't expect that she would do it. At that time, Jackie Chan called Lin Fengjiao and prepared to file for divorce from her. "This is something that is unforgivable, and I don't want to forgive it. As long as she said a word of blame, I would immediately divorce her. But I didn't expect her tone. She calmly said, 'Don't hurt others, you should deal with yourself first. Don't worry about us. 'After hanging up the phone, I burst into tears..."

So, Jackie Chan, who had always been wary of his wife and kept all the money in his hands, immediately revised his will and included Except for half of her net worth donated to charity, all her property was left to Lin Fengjiao. As for Wu Qili's mother and daughter, Jackie Chan said: "They have a good life, let her live their life, and please don't harass me, because no matter what I do, I will hurt others. Over the years, in fact, I have also It’s not easy.”

I’m most afraid of receiving the “Lifetime Achievement Award”

No one is immortal, not even Jackie Chan. As he gets older, the pressure on him also increases. "Sometimes I really want to be an ordinary person. In fact, I am an ordinary person. It is you who have made me extraordinary." Especially when he was filming a movie recently, he found that some actions that were once easy to do are now unexpectedly difficult. When he can't do it, he will be very hesitant. Jackie Chan even thought about why he didn't die earlier. "What would have happened if Bruce Lee had not died today, he would be in his seventies. But he died, so how perfect he is now. The impression he left on others will always be a body of muscles, and you will never see his old look." Although not He will really commit suicide, but Jackie Chan said that if one day he is tortured by a terminal illness, he will definitely ask for euthanasia.

Jackie Chan said that the day he fears the most is actually like this: "At a large award ceremony, someone suddenly announced that I would be given a lifetime achievement award, and then the whole audience stood up and clapped. At that time I would rather hide, I really would."