ETTA Ng Chok Lam is the estranged daughter of the Hollywood legend Jackie Chan.
Her mum is Elaine Ng Yi-lei who she is also said to have issues with.
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Who is Etta Ng Chok Lam?
Chan married Taiwanese actress Joan Lin in 1982 and they remain married.
However, in 1999 it was revealed he’d had an affair with Ng, 19 years younger than the star.
Chan reportedly cut off contact from Ng when he found she was pregnant.
He later admitted his regret in his memoir Never Grow Up where he said he’d “screwed up royally”.
“When the news broke about an affair I’d had that resulted in a love child, the media frenzy was like a bomb going off,” he said. “It wasn’t a mistake I could fix by saying, ‘I’m sorry.’”
Etta was born on November 19, 1999 in Hong Kong where she was also raised.
She gained the nickname “Little Dragon Girl” in the media.
Etta came out as a lesbian in an Instagram post in October 2017 which gained overwhelmingly positive feedback from her followers.
“I’m shocked by the support. It’s a little crazy right now but I hope it leads to good things,” she said.
Etta is married to Canadian social media influencer Andi Autumn and they wed in Toronto.
She hit the headlines in July 2023 after a clip featuring Jackie Chan went viral on social media.
Due to a misleading caption on Twitter, many people thought the woman in the footage was Etta.
However, a community note which was added later said the clip is actually from a new comedy adventure film called Ride On, and the young girl is an actress called Liu Haocun who is playing Chan’s daughter in the movie.
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Who is Etta Ng Chok Lam’s mom Elaine Ng Yi-Lei?
Ng,also known as Elaine Wu, is an actress and former beauty queen.
She was crowned Miss Asia in 1990.
It seems that mother and daughter are now also estranged.
Ng has also faced her own controversy.
In the past she has been accused of being a “bad parent” due to her drinking habits, which she publicly apologised for according to a 2015 report by Jayne Stars. “I admitted I was wrong in one aspect as a mother – not giving her [Etta] a sense of security. But she knows I love her,” she said.
What happened between Jackie Chan and Etta Ng Chok Lam?
Reports say Etta didn’t know her father growing up, and she never took her biological dad’s last name.
Over the years, Etta has openly criticised her celebrity parents through her social media channels.
Speaking in 2015, she said: “He never existed in my life. I will never regard him as a father.”
She added though: “I am not angry with my father, and have never wished to see him.”
While estimates have put Chan’s fortune at around $400million he reportedly doesn’t support the Ngs financially.
A few months before Etta and Autumn tied the knot they posted a video on YouTube claiming that they were “homeless” and sleeping under a bridge “due to homophobic parents”.
“I don’t even understand what is going on because we’ve gone to the police, we’ve gone to the hospital, the food banks, LGBTQ community shelters, and all of them just don’t give a s**t,” Ng said in the now-deleted footage.
Ng reportedly hit back at the video and the “homelessness” claims, saying the couple shouldn’t blame family for their situation.
“Many people in Hong Kong get paid low wages, but they still go to work. If they don’t have work, then they’ll film these videos to complain about their parents? How many of these videos would we see in a day then?” she said, according to Coconuts Hong Kong.
Despite his daughter’s homophobia accusations, Pink News reported that Chan is fine with her sexuality, saying simply, “If she likes it, that’s fine.”
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