Unfortunately this was very common at that time in China, children being left on the Mainland to fend for themselves. And his parents were no average workers.
His mother was an opium smuggler, a gambler and a big sister in the underworld. His father was a spy. They met when his father arrested his mother for smuggling opium. Jackie was shocked to find this out because he never knew these things about his mother and only found out when doing research for a documentary film called 'Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family.'
The documentary explores the actor's past and reveals these devastating family secrets. Chan cried several times when watching the rough cut, but has not yet sat through the completed film. The movie will most likely end up on the film festival circuit.
