Jackie Chan, the legendary Hong Kong action star, has publicly acknowledged having an affair with former beauty queen Elaine Ng while married, which resulted in the birth of their daughter, Etta Ng Chok Lam, in 1999. But Chan and Etta have reportedly remained estranged, and Etta has said he was never part of her life. In 2018, she and her then-partner posted a video saying they were homeless and had been sleeping under a bridge, though reports that she specifically asked Chan for help are less clear. Chan has spoken about the affair publicly, but notably left Etta out of his 2018 memoir.
Chan has also faced major backlash for his political views. In 2009, he questioned whether having too much freedom was a good thing and said he was beginning to think Chinese people “need to be controlled”; years later, he publicly praised the Chinese Communist Party and said he wanted to become a member. And the commenter is right about Jaden Smith: while filming The Karate Kid, Chan praised the 11-year-old’s discipline and martial-arts skills, saying Jaden “put my son to shame” because he’d never been able to convince his own son, Jaycee, to train.
