In an interview with "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Australian actor Hugh Jackman gets emotional about his mother abandoning his family when he was 8 years old.
"I can remember the morning she left, it's weird the things you pick up," he said in tears, according to Us Weekly. "I remember her being in a towel around her head and saying goodbye, must have been the way she said goodbye. As I went off to school, when I came back, there was no one there in the house. The next day there was a telegram from England, Mom was there. And then that was it. I don't think she thought for a second it would be forever. I think she thought it was, 'I just need to get away, and I'll come back.'"
Jackman's mother, Grace, left him with his four elder siblings and his father, Chris, took care of his children since then.
"Dad used to pray every night that Mom would come back," Jackman said during the interview.
Jackman further said his father has been his inspiration for what he is now.
"My father is a rock. My father is my rock," he said. "It's where I learned everything about loyalty, dependability, being there day in, day out, no matter what."
Jackman said he is always advised about family by his father and never about work.
"And I think that's him living with probably some of his regrets," Jackman said. "And feelings [that] maybe he, at the wrong time, put too much in his career. And he doesn't want me to make me that mistake. In his gentle way, he always reminds me this the most important thing."
Jackman is married to Deborra-Lee Furness and has two children, 12-year-old Oscar Maximillian and 6-year-old Ava Eliot.
