Jackie Chan has hardly ever spoken about his affair, and when he has, he is centered on its influence on his marriage. “When the information broke about an affair I would had that resulted in a baby, the media frenzy was like a bomb going off,” he wrote in his 2015 autobiography, “By no means Develop Up.” (by way of Individuals). “I wished to telephone [my wife] Joan however I did not know what to say. I would not have the ability to clarify this. It wasn’t a mistake I might repair simply by saying, ‘I am sorry.'”
Chan has been extra open about his failings as a father to his solely baby from his marriage, Jaycee Chan. Within the ebook, he admitted to bodily manhandling the boy when he was simply 2 years outdated. “I picked him up with one hand and flung him throughout the room, and he crashed into the couch,” the actor wrote (by way of CNN). “With the quantity of pressure I used, if he’d hit the again or armrests, it might have been fairly critical.”
In later years and following Jaycee’s six-month jail sentence for drug expenses in China, Chan revealed that he had been a strict, uninvolved father or mother for a very long time, however had mellowed out. “I used to be too Chinese language, conventional — you, son, go away, I do not wish to assist you, you need to assist your self,” Chan stated about his relationship with Jaycee in 2015 (by way of Related Press). He defined that the expertise of creating 2010’s “The Karate Child” reverse Jaden Smith opened his eyes to a different approach of parenting; Will Smith was always current on the set to assist his son. Nonetheless, he nonetheless held the opinion that jail had been expertise for his son’s private development.