Jackie Chan is making headlines after a clip surfaced of him appearing to watch his old clips with his daughter. But the clip that shows the two becoming emotional rewatching the actor's greatest scenes, was actually pulled from his new movie Ride On. The film was released in April, but the clip has brought new aspects of Chan's life to light.
According to Unilad, the 69-year-old admitted in his memoir, Never Grow Up, that he once flung his then 2-year-old son across a room, causing him to slam into a sofa.
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"With the amount of force I used, if he'd hit the back or armrests, it could have been quite serious," Chan said in the book, which was originally published in 2015.
He added that he "immediately" regretted throwing his son and "never threw him again or hit him." But his actions caused great fear within his son. He mentioned in the book that his son "still gets frightened whenever he hears me give him an order" and was always alert when the actor wasn't in a good mood.
The book continues to reveal more details about Chan's relationship with his son throughout the book.
Despite the actor's accumulated net worth, he said in his book that his son wouldn't be receiving an inheritance, saying that "if he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting mine."
The actor also recalled a time when the two boarded a plane and forced his son to sit in economy since he didn't have any money.
Chan's relationship with his daughter was also highlighted after the surfacing of the viral clip from the movie Ride On. It was revealed that his daughter Etta Ng Chok Lam, 23, has been abandoned by the actor, BuzzFeed News reports.
Etta told E! News in 2015 that the Rush Hour actor doesn't have a role in her life.
“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. As long as I have my mother with me, I don’t need my father," she said at the time.
Etta later shared that she was gay and was subsequently without a home due to her and her wife's "homophobic parents."
