Actor Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness, shown at the Fight Cancer Foundation's 20th Annual Red Ball on Saturday in Melbourne, have two children. (Photo: Graham Denholm, Getty Images)
He dances. He sings. He acts. And he's in touch with his feelings.
Hugh Jackman, who stars in December's Les Miserables,
says he suffered quite heavily after his mother abandoned him at age 8
and moved back to England. But although it was a grueling experience,
he's gotten over it, he tells Australian Women's Weekly, and the two are close. But at the time, it stung.
"One
of the main things I remember is that horrible feeling that people were
talking about you and looking at you because it was odd for the mother
to leave," he tells the publication.
The
father of two doesn't have hard feelings. "There comes a certain point
in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or
the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about
what might have been," he says.
On a happier note, his hotly awaited film opens on Christmas Day.
USA Today