{"id":32804,"date":"2021-08-24T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=199370"},"modified":"2021-08-24T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:42:11","slug":"hugh-jackman-mother-photo","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/hugh-jackman-mother-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman Shares A Rare Moment With The Mother That Allegedly Abandoned Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199373\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-86275261.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Jackman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australian actor Hugh Jackman has spoken about the tumultuous relationship he&#8217;s had with his mother, Grace McNeil, in the past. He recalls the woman abandoning his family when he was just eight. In a new social media post, the actor published a rare photo with his mother, simply captioned, &#8220;Mum&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can remember the morning she left, it\u2019s weird the things you pick up. I remember her being in a towel around her head and saying goodbye, must have been the way she said goodbye,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/hugh-jackman-sheds-tears-in-60-minutes-interview-over-losing-mum\/news-story\/b4e819f33c615a00b6ed23e8f70cf3e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CS6mD8wny_Z\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CS6mD8wny_Z\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CS6mD8wny_Z\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Hugh Jackman (@thehughjackman)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I went off to school, when I came back, there was no one there in the house,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The next day there was a telegram from England. Mum was there. And then that was it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think she thought for a second it would be forever. I think she thought it was, \u2018I just need to get away, and I\u2019ll come back.\u2019 Dad used to pray every night that Mum would come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Greatest Showman\u00a0<\/em>star was in born 1968, 12 months after his family migrated to Australia from the United Kingdom. His parents later divorced. As an adult however Jackman worked to forge a new relationship with McNeil. In another 2012 interview with <em>Women&#8217;s Weekly\u00a0<\/em>(per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity-life\/celebrity-photos\/hugh-jackman-posts-rare-photo-with-mum-after-rocky-past\/news-story\/c6fc678158faccbd33d953cf643d38db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>news.com.au<\/em><\/a>), the actor revealed he spoke extensively with her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I never felt and I know this might sound strange, I never felt that my mum didn\u2019t love me. I\u2019ve spoken about it at length with her since and I know she was struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackman is best known as the Wolverine in the X-Men franchise as well as starring alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/zendaya-tom-holland-relationship-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zendaya<\/a> and Zac Efron in\u00a0<em>The Greatest Showman\u00a0<\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/nine-perfect-strangers-nicole-kidman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Kidman<\/a> in the award-winning feature film,\u00a0<em>Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just recently <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/kate-hudson-past-trauma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Hudson spoke about her own trauma<\/a> from family life. Similarly, Hudson grew up without having a relationship with her father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had personal struggles or familial situations that were challenging,\u201d Hudson explained. \u201c[They] kind of prepared me for my future and my success. I had a lot of personal trauma I never really allowed myself to be OK about, or recognize as being traumatic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":32806,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hugh Jackman Shares A Rare Moment With His Mother - Grazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Australian actor Hugh Jackman has spoken about the tumultuous relationship he&#039;s had with his mother, Grace McNeil, in the past. He recalls the woman abandoning his family when he was just eight. 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